Welcome, Nancy Edmonds

Today Unherald.fish adds another writer, and we think you’ll enjoy her first column. It’s about what retail stores these days call overpriced boots “footwear.” Back then, we called them galoshes.

Her bio reads:

“Rather than being “unheralded,” you might call Nancy Edmonds Hanson “reforumed.” The Forum, the Fargo, N.D., newspaper, hired her at 17, “launching the shyest teenager in all of darkest North Dakota on nearly 50 years of writing adventures.” She covered news and features there and wrote columns for most of the next 10 years. Since then, she’s written, edited, advised, marketed and taught all over the place. Her work has turned up in North Dakota Horizons and many other magazines over the years, along with bookstores, where her guide to freelance writing was a long-term best-seller (among the fraction of bookbuyers who want to write); the regional book publishing and distribution business; public television; countless anonymous advertising and public relations venues, and — for nearly 25 years — in the classrooms of Minnesota State University Moorhead’s School of Communications and Journalism. She’s also a bona fide Photoshop wizard, has a photographer husband and chef daughter and is crazy about cats.