He has written more than 800 syndicated columns on effective business writing appearing in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Orange County Register, and other publications.

He has published two collections of his columns, Writing for Business (winner of a 1994 Minnesota Book Award) and Writing by Wilbers. His book on stylistic technique, Keys to Great Writing, has been described as "a writing class in a book" that "breaks down general advice on what to do into practical steps on how to do it." This Northern Nonsense: Ernest Oberholtzer and Mallard Island, his chapbook of poems about the gentle giant who helped save the Boundary Waters Canoe Area from development, was published in October 2009 by Red Dragonfly Press. He is currently writing a comic novel, A Grammatical Affair: A Romance with Language, which offers a review of common writing errors and stylistic technique in the form of a sexy, wildly romantic, heartbreaking, sappy love story.

Dr. Wilbers earned his B.A. at Vanderbilt University and his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Iowa, where he wrote a history of the Iowa Writers' Workshop for his dissertation, which was published by the University of Iowa Press. He was a Visiting Fulbright Fellow at the University of Essex in Colchester, England. At the University of Minnesota he directed one of the largest student academic support services operations in the country before serving as Associate Director of the Program in Creative and Professional writing. 

He and his wife Debbie have two grown children and live in Minneapolis, where he has been a proud member of The Loft Literary Center since 1981, serving on the Loft's board of directors from 2003 to 2009 and as the Loft board chair from 2007 to 2009.

For additional information, see his résumé.

Contact Stephen Wilbers at wilbe004@umn.edu.