
Stephanie Wilbur Ash is director of editorial services at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter and author of the novel, The Annie Year, in which a high school valedictorian resorts to selling meth to pay for college. She has a B.A. in journalism and media studies from the University of Iowa and an M.F.A. in fiction from Hamline University. This fall, she will have children attending Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, (philosophy major, music and studio art minor) the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth (planned nursing major), and Gustavus (major: undecided).