Mary Krugerud’s B.A. in Writing from Metropolitan State University led to a career in grant development at Normandale Community College. Her independent projects focused on historical tuberculosis. Krugerud’s book, Interrupted Lives: Tuberculosis in Minnesota and Glen Lake Sanatorium, detailed how patients experienced treatment at a sanatorium. In 2015, she received a Minnesota Historical Society Legacy Fellowship to expand research. Her website, www.mnsans.com, describes Minnesota’s tuberculosis facilities. She edited a collection of letters that became The Girl in Building C: The True Story of a Teenage Tuberculosis Patient. In 2021, she collaborated to complete Jon Willand’s book Lac qui Parle County: 150 Years of History.