Northwoods Narrative Group

Distinct voices. Shared ground.

Three author identities, each with a clear voice and its own shelf—brought together by stories with something real underneath them.

Upper Peninsula stories

Theodore Blankenship “Teddy”

Rural life, history, humor, family, place, weather, and lived experience from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

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Upper Peninsula backroad living

Alfie Egan

Alfie Egan is an Upper Peninsula resident who writes about the practical realities, independence, humor, and hard-earned perspective that come with living off a two-track road. In The Blueprint: A Memoir of Breaking Patterns, he turns a systems-minded lens toward inherited family patterns, survival, and the work of breaking cycles.

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