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Naomi Yaeger is a writer, reporter, editor and Earthkeeper. She started her journalism career writing for “The Teen Scene” in the Grand Forks Herald when she was in high school. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Dakota and earned her master’s degree from UND. Naomi worked in social and human services while raising her young daughter in Seattle. She returned to UND to study journalism and earned a BFA in Communication in 1998. She worked as a reporter in small towns in North Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa. Naomi is a member of Lake Superior Writers, the Wisconsin Writers Association, and AAUW. She has taken classes and participated in workshops at the Loft Literary Center, Grand Marais Art Colony, the Duluth Folk School and online through the Poynter Institute and MediaBistro. In 2016, the United Methodist Church commissioned her as an Earthkeeper. She carries out that mission by writing environmental columns. Thunderbird Review published “Adrift in a Boat,” a short excerpt, in 2024. Naomi lives in Duluth, MN, where she enjoys nature's beauty and walks in the woods with her husband and their faithful dog.