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CONTRIBUTORS

Tom Isern is professor of history and University Distinguished Professor at NDSU. He earned his doctorate from Oklahoma State University. He is the author or co-author of six books about life on the Great Plains of North America, including Dakota Circle: Excursions on the True Plains. He is best known across North Dakota for his weekly feature, Plains Folk, on Prairie Public radio. He has received five major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and also won the Peltier Award for Innovative Teaching and the Fargo Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Professorship. He is president of the Western Social Science Association and is founding director of the NDSU Center for Heritage Renewal.

jeff kolpack Jeff Kolpack is a 1987 graduate who was lucky enough to have the greatest journalism professor on the planet in Lou Richardson. He learned his life’s lessons at the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house before taking jobs at the Jamestown Sun, Bismarck Tribune and Forum Communications, where the printed word thing has morphed into online video shows, blogs, radio shows and TV appearances. Funny thing on his way to covering a Division I football program; it came to him when NDSU ditched Division II in 2004. It eventually turned into the book project “Horns Up: Inside the Greatest Football Dynasty” that was released in the fall of 2016. He and his wife, Ruby, also an NDSU graduate, live in Fargo and have three children.

Anne Robinson-Paul works in University Relations at NDSU. She grew up in central Minnesota listening to the grown-ups tell stories over coffee and pie. They were good storytellers. They taught her a lot about character development and narrative arc. She went on to study writing and literature in college and graduate school and has worked as a reporter, college writing instructor and communication professional. She lives in Dilworth, Minnesota, with her husband, Eric, and children, Jonah and Emma.

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