Freya Manfred lives with her husband, screenwriter Thomas Pope, at a small lake near Stillwater, Minnesota. Her literary memoir, Fredrick Manfred: A Daughter Remembers (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1999) was nominated for a Minnesota Book Award and an Iowa Historical Society Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award. She has written a novel called Tall and a new nonfiction book entitled Raising Twins. She is the author of two poetry collections published by Red Dragonfly Press, SWIMMING WITH A HUNDRED YEAR OLD SNAPPING TURTLE (2008) and SPEAK, MOTHER (2015).