He has published two collections of his columns, Writing for Business (winner of a 1994 Minnesota Book Award) and Writing by Wilbers. Now used as a textbook in college writing classes, Keys to Great Writing (a book offering advice on how to write with clarity, emphasis, and style), has been described as "brilliant and illuminating," providing principles that "can be applied to any type of writing, including fiction."

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 by Red Dragonfly Press. His most recent book, A Boundary Waters History: Canoeing Across Time, depicts efforts to preserve a remarkable wilderness on Minnesota's northern border while telling the story of canoeing for nearly 30 years with his father. He is currently working on a number of books, including 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 or send an email.