Victoria Lynn Smith

Victoria Lynn Smith lives in Wisconsin by Lake Superior. She writes fiction, creative nonfiction, and articles. She placed second in the 2020 Hal Prize Fiction Contest, and in 2020, she won first place in the Lake Superior Writers' Short-Short Fiction Contest. Her work has appeared on Wisconsin Public Radio, Brevity Blog, Better Than Starbucks, and in several regional publications. Her dream is to one day visit the Shetland Islands.

Dear Minnesota

Dear Minnesota - Victoria Lynn Smith

Victoria Lynn Smith shares a letter about of her mother-in-law's favorite relatives, Malene Fylling, a Norwegian immigrant who came to Minnesota in 1903

Stories

Come Again Now

A writer remembers her grandfather, George Youngquist's comforting tradition of celebrating his parents, Frank and Rose

Dear Minnesota

Dear Minnesota – Victoria Lynn Smith

A Swiss immigrant who built his first home in Minnesota from logs and allegedly stopped a cannonball with his leg, Victoria Lynn Smith shares the legacy of her great-great-grandfather, Yost Yost.