Gene R. Stark
A writer of non-fiction, fiction, and poetry. 

Gene is a rural Minnesota outdoorsman and researcher of local history, articulately portraying the land and folks of rural America.
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He has been a teacher, farmer, trapper, and greenhouse grower. He writes about Fly Over Country, that vast space between the coasts of our continent. His writing reflects the unique beauty and culture of rural middle America. 

Gene shares, “We live where the sun rises when it hits the horizon, not when it tops a building. We listen to the weather forecast because it matters; it influences not only what we do, but what direction our day will take.”

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About Gene

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Welcome to Fly Over Country, that vast and delicious expanse between our coasts.

Silver wings and contrails paint names
Across our sky,
They fly from coast to coast.
Quick gaze at our patchwork land
Once white and black, then green and blue
Glide through, enroute.
Little glance from laptop light
To silent scenes below
They come and in a cutting shard they go. 

Yet our fathers left us here
To work the space and
Pump the bounty to the coasts,
And keep the secrets of the land.
We stand, look up, wonder where they go,
Thank God they mostly do.

Excerpt from Flyover Seasons.

Books by Gene R. Stark

Like thousands before you, you will enjoy Gene's fresh and original approach to storytelling.

God in a God-Forsaken Land ● Deep Tracks to Follow ● Flyover Seasons ● Tracks in the Mud
​Water and Dirt ● Flutermacawn ● Accidentally Green ● The Earth Movers

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INVITE GENE TO SPEAK TO YOUR GROUP

Gene is an author who feels as comfortable sitting in the seat of a tractor or wading through an autumn duck marsh, as he does sitting in front of his computer keyboard. He is the author of eight books, highlighting the rural and intriguing aspects of middle America.

​He has made his living from the land as an organic farmer, propagates native pollinator plants, and celebrates God's wondrous Creation each day at his rural farm in west-central Minnesota. He believes that the plain and simple is the basis for what all people crave as they reach for the beautiful and wondrous, and that some truths never change.

Invite Gene

To invite Gene to speak to your group to share his stories about Fly Over Country, the vast expanse between our coasts, simply drop him a note.