Join Anne-Marie Erickson for an author talk of her book, In the Evening, We’ll Dance, on Thursday, September 25, 2025, at 7 PM

In the Evening, We’ll Dance is a memoir in essays on love and dementia.

ABOUT THE BOOK

“We have waited a long time for a writer to bring light and a literary sensibility to the experience of loving and living through dementia. In the Evening, We’ll Dance: A Memoir in Essays on Love & Dementia is honest, important, gorgeously written, and a pleasure to read. Anne-Marie Erickson, ever curious about her husband’s changing consciousness, learns with her journalist husband a new lexicon with which to share his shifting reality. To this, Erickson adds a framework of myth, fairytale, photography, and art to give us an entirely original view of lifelong love. It widens the paradigm. It enlivens the spirit.”

— Patricia Weaver Francisco, author of Telling: A Memoir of Rape and Recovery

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Anne-Marie Erickson was born in the western Minnesota prairie town of Benson, the granddaughter of Norwegian immigrants. She attended Augsburg College in Minneapolis, where she earned a B.A. in American Studies. Following a move to northern Minnesota, she received an M.A. in English from Bemidji State University. For many years, she was a freelance writer. Her journalism, poetry, essays, and book reviews have appeared in regional publications; this is her first book. She taught English at Itasca Community College in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, and Mangold Institute in Madrid, Spain. She has received support from the Minnesota State Arts Board, as well as the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council. She currently writes, reads, gardens, and enjoys the lakes, walking paths, music, and visual arts available in Grand Rapids.

This project was supported by an Individual Artist Project Grant.