K. Lyn Wurth

K. Lyn Wurth, a lifelong American Great Plains and Rocky Mountain region settler, writes fiction that considers Great Plains and Western history, multicultural issues, health and family life.

After graduating from Augustana College in South Dakota, she focused on Great Plains and Western literature and creative writing for her Master of Arts in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. With other education and life experience in medicine (including a Master's degree in Physician Assistant Studies), teaching and visual arts, she now writes stories and novels in rural northwest Iowa, where she's found love and roots with her husband, David.

Her award-winning short fiction has appeared in Women Writing the West's LAURA Journal, The Broadkill Review, The Examined Life Journal, St. Anthony Messenger and The Arduous Touch: Women's Voices in Healthcare, (Purdue University Press). She is an active member of Women Writing the West and Western Writers of America.