Frank Bures

Frank Bures (born November 3, 1971) is an American writer and essayist. He is the author of Pushing the River: An Epic Battle, a Lost History, a Near Death, and Other True Canoeing Stories, The Geography of Madness: Penis Thieves, Voodoo Death and the Search for the Meaning of the World's Strangest Syndromes, and the editor of Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology. He produces audio history tours for VoiceMap, and his work has been selected for the Best American Travel Writing, the Lowell Thomas Award and other awards.

Personal life Bures grew up in Winona, Minnesota, graduated from St. Olaf College in 1995, and has lived in Tanzania, Italy, Thailand and other places. He lives in Minneapolis.

Works

Books Pushing the River: An Epic Battle, a Lost History, a Near Death, and Other True Canoeing Stories (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2025) The Shape of the World: Essays on Travel, Culture, and Belief from Rotary Magazine (2022) Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology (Belt Publishing, 2019) The Geography of Madness: Penis Thieves, Voodoo Death, and the Search for the Meaning of the World's Strangest Syndromes (Melville House, 2016)