Stephanie Wilbur Ash is the author of The Annie Year, a novel about a rural woman CPA who has an extra-marital affair with the new vocational teacher in town. A former editor at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Ash was one of the literary/musical comedians behind the Lit 6 Project (loud, drunken, funny, connected stories told in Midwest bars), the Electric Arc Radio Show (episodic musical comedy on Minnesota Public Radio), and Don’t Crush Our Heart! (the world’s only full-length twee-pop musical/courtroom drama). Ash works at Gustavus Adolphus College in Northfield, Minnesota. She is originally from rural northeast Iowa and lives in Minneapolis and Mankato, Minnesota.