Pandemonium Logs: Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 2020-2022

Balcones Prize Winner in Nonfiction

In 2015, Ben Miller and the poet Anne Pierson Wiese moved from New York City to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to explore their midwestern roots and to focus on their writing careers. Working a day job in a hospital, Miller had a front—row seat to the COVID—19 pandemic as it moved from the coasts to the urban Midwest. Pandemonium Logs casts an unflinching eye on the state of the worker in the US health—care system during a global pandemic, giving voice to the...