WOMEN’S RESOURCES

SUSAN A. STIBBE

Susan graduated from North Dakota State University with a major in English education and a minor in speech/ communication. She is a former teacher who served on the Northern Cass School Board, the North Dakota State Board of Education, and the North Dakota State Board for Career and Technical Education. Susan and her husband, Bill, live on their farm near Hunter, North Dakota. Their daughter, Emily, attends Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana.

Megan Bartholomay

Megan is a Fargo native who spent nearly twelve years between New York and Los Angeles as an actor. She returned to the Fargo area in early 2009 to pursue an MFA in creative writing at MSUM. Currently, she works as a project manager at Absolute Marketing Group and lives downtown with her husband Mike and their kitties.

Alicia Underlee Nelson

Alicia 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. 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.

This issue, Amanda wrote our cover story!

Amanda Peterson

Amanda is an award-winning writer who loves to tell people’s stories. In addition to authoring three children’s non-fiction books, her work has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers. Amanda previously worked as a writer and online editor for Concordia College, as well as a reporter for a Minnesota daily newspaper. She lives in Moorhead with her husband, Jason, and two children.