M E Fuller is a Minnesota-based author and visual artist.
Author: My first novel, Saving the Ghost, is a literary drama. My second book, Blood on the Bridal Wreath, is the first of four in a cozy mystery series, Filthy Dirty Garden Gloves. From Hothouse to Heaven is the second book in the series, published in July 2023. Fuller writes a weekly artist event column published here and in the Montevideo American News.
Contact me to schedule a book talk & signing.
Visual Artist: I create abstract/contemporary energetic landscapes/mindscapes. The works depict movement and sensations experienced through the act of creating art. I work in acrylics and acrylic inks, pencils, charcoal, and other mark-making tools for gestural marks that allow me to move into the painting. This follows with applications of acrylic color layers and textural marks that help define the subject and blend elements into a cohesive visual experience.
More About M E Fuller, Artist & Author
In November 2022, I volunteered as the youth mentor for the 4-H Young Writers Program. What a blast! You should try it! Contact Sarah Odendahl at sodendah@umn.edu to learn more.
Creative Writing:
Mystery, Essay, Flash & Literary Fiction
Literary Fiction
Saving the Ghost - pub. 2019
Cozy Mystery
Filthy Dirty Garden Gloves – 4-Book Series
Blood on the Bridal Wreath, Book 1, pub. 2021
From Hothouse to Heaven, Book 2, pub. 2023
Essay
The Last Roll Call, PHOTOWRITE, October 2018
Flash Fiction
I Don’t Know, 2nd place award, flash fiction, “Tales from the Tall Grass Prairie” writing competition, 2023
The Lake, South 85 Journal blog, November 2018
Abel March, Talking Stick 26, A Minnesota Literary Journal, September 2017
Crazy Dog, Winter 2016, Shark Reef, A Literary Magazine
GRANTS
2021 – Southwest Minnesota Arts Council – emerging artist grant
2021 – Minnesota State Arts Board Creative Support for Individuals
2017 – Artist Project Grant, Five Wings Arts Council with funds from The McKnight Foundation, to complete for publication her first novel, Saving the Ghost
2015 – Artist Project Grant, Five Wings Arts Council with funds from The McKnight Foundation, to complete the first draft of Saving the Ghost
RESIDENCIES & RETREATS
2-day memoir workshop with Kao Kalia Yang, Park Rapids, MN, August 21 -22, 2019
Week-long intensive with Sheila O’Connor, College of Saint Benedict, July 16-20
Chippewa Valley Writer’s Guild – 5-day residency with Nickolas Butler and B J Hollars, June 2017
Springboard for the Arts Hinge Artist in residence, Fergus Falls, MN, November-December 2017
VOLUNTEER
The University of Minnesota 4-H Young Writers Program
Southwest Minnesota Regional Arts Council Board Representative for Chippewa County
Art Exhibits/Published Art
2025
Bird Island Cultural Center, May 1-31
2024
Owatonna Arts Center, June 2-30
Crossing Arts Alliance, July 3 - August 3
Pump House Regional Arts Center, Kader Gallery, November 6 - January 4
The Scop: Literary and Fine Arts Magazine for King's College (Volume 84)
2023
Watermark Art Center, Lakeview Gallery, solo exhibit
The Smallest Art Gallery, Small Works, solo exhibit
White Bear Center for the Arts, members exhibit
Blue Earth Review - Fall 2023/Issue 31
2022
White Bear Center for the Arts, Northern Lights, juried exhibit
Hutchinson Center for the Arts, regional artists exhibit
Freeport Art Museum, 18th Regional Juried Exhibit
Watermark Art Center, juried exhibit
K. K. Berge Gallery, solo exhibit, Original Forms
2021
Watermark Art Center, Nibiikaang – From the Water juried exhibit
Fergus Falls Center for the Arts, solo exhibit
Kaddatz Galleries, Hindsight 2020 juried exhibit
2018
The Crossing Arts Alliance, juried exhibit
Juried Art Crawls/Fairs
2023
Excelsior Art on the Lake
Art in Bayfront Park
GSR Fine Arts Festival
2020-2022
Upper Minnesota River Arts Meander
2022
Park Point Juried Art Fair
Art at St. Kate’s
Lakeville Arts Festival
