Mike Palecek

"Mike Palecek, a former award winning reporter, editor, publisher in Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, lives in Saginaw, Minnesota, west of Duluth. A writer, he is a former federal prisoner for peace and the Iowa Democratic Party candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, 5th District in the 2000 election, gaining 65,000 votes on an anti-war platform in a conservative district. The small newspaper that Mike and Ruth Palecek owned and operated in Byron, Minnesota, won the MNA Newspaper of the Year Award in 1993. He co-hosts “The New American Dream” radio show and has published over a dozen books that offer fictional but insightful studies of the American character and the plight in which we find ourselves in the world today."

• Cofounder, Moon Rock Books