Frank Bures is the author of The Geography of Madness: Penis Thieves, Voodoo Death and the Search for the Meaning of the World’s Strangest Syndromes, published by Melville House, and editor of Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology, published by Belt Publishing. He studied political science at St. Olaf College and is a contributing editor at Poets & Writers Magazine and a columnist at The Rotarian Magazine and teaches at The Loft Literary Center. His work has appeared in Harper’s, Outside, The New York Times, Men’s Health, Bicycling, Esquire, Scientific American Mind, Wired, The Washington Post Magazine and other publications. His stories have also been included in the Best American Travel Writing 2004 and 2009, and selected as "Notable" picks for Best American Sports Writing 2012, 2018, Best American Essays 2013, 2014, 2015 2016, and Best American Travel Writing 2008, 2011, 2013, 2014 2015, 2018, 2019. He has won three Lowell Thomas Travel Writing Awards, an Eddie & Ozzie Award and was a runner-up for the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize in 2001.
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