Carroll, Jim

Will Weaver, teaches English and creative writing at Bemidji State University. He has written two books for adults, Red Earth, White Earth and Gravestone made of Wheat, and is the winner of both McKnight and the Bush Foundations' prizes for fiction. His first two books for young adults, Striking Out, a 1994 Best Book for Young Adults , and Farm Team, a 1996 Best Book for Young Adults and winner of the 1996 IRA Distinguished Book Award for Young Adults, are also about Billy Baggs.

Will Weaver lives in Bemidji, Minnesota with his wife and two children.