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This summer the Loft Literary Center, a literary arts nonprofit in Minneapolis, celebrates fifty years of connecting authors and audiences in the Twin Cities and helping writers hone their craft with community-based educational programming. Arleta Little has served as the Loft’s executive director since 2021. Before that she directed the McKnight Artist Fellowships and the Givens Foundation for African American Literature, both in