ALICIA UNDERLEE NELSON

is the creator of prairiestylefile.com, a website that showcases what’s beautiful and what’s next in North Dakota and beyond. She frequently travels across the region to cover the arts, culture, shopping, events and fashion of the Upper Midwest.

She is a local correspondent for Reuters and her work has been published in numerous magazines and newspapers in the region.

Gwendolyn Hoberg

is an editor, writer, classical musician, and the office manager of Ringstrom Law, a criminal defense firm in Moorhead. The owner of Content & Contour, LLC, an editing and writing service, Gwen also teaches french horn at the University of

North Dakota and plays in the Duluth Symphony, the Dakota Brass, and the Sub Zero Brass. She is a co-author of the travel memoir The Walk Across North Dakota, to be published by the NDSU Institute for Regional Studies Press in 2015.

She is also a featured writer for several online publications and a well-traveled public speaker.

Alicia is a graduate of Minnesota State University Moorhead. She loves traveling, reading, experimenting in the kitchen and shopping at estate sales. Alicia lives in West Fargo with her husband and their extremely busy toddler.