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Things I write about:

• Adventure Travel & Business Service-Work
  I grew up with pretty square Midwestern ideas about professional life, but thankfully, my mind wandered. When I can, I travel abroad, exploring the cultural complexities that allow people and business to flourish. I am a PADI-certified diver, cyclist and student of Pilates.
  
  
• Homeschooling a Daughter Born a Preemie & Now an 'Only'
  I wince at naming these categories, but there's something to them that my writing mind finds urgent, almost daily. See "Just because, I said" -- my journal focused on this storyline.
  
  
• Business Building 
  It's true: the shifting sands of business strategy and operations captivate me. I founded a farm and grass-fed beef company, beginning at farmers' market and in nine years expanding to sell 4,000+ cattle annually.  From hiring to marketing, I do love the challenge of figuring stuff out.
  
  
• The Work of Working With My Partner
  Maybe the hardest thing I'll ever do. No joke.

Read  a  sample:

Award-Winning Conservation | Luther College Alumni Magazine

​At her desk in blue scrubs, her curly hair escaping from a ponytail in humid wisps, Heidi Ross ’99 swipes a hand across her brow and sits up a little straighter as her FaceTime connectivity sticks.

A minute ago she was elbow-deep in an aquarium, working alongside fellow staff at the El Valle Amphibian Conservation Center (EVACC) to disinfect the tanks that hold eight of the most critically endangered species of frogs on the planet.

​In the background, a coworker flits back and forth, walking individual frogs across the lab to a scale, recording their weights in order to separate larger adult frogs from lighter specimens....

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Kristine Jepsen

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Kristine Jepsen is a freelance writer and editor in Northeast Iowa publishing creative nonfiction and essays. Often informed by her work as a farm/food business owner, her experience homeschooling an only child (born weighing 1lb 13oz) and an urgent awareness that fulfillment is a thing begotten, her work has won the Diana Woods Memorial Award for Creative Nonfiction and earned her a spot in the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Writer-to-Writer mentorship program. New work also appears in the Rat's Ass Review,  Parks & Points and her beloved most-local magazine, Inspire(d).