Dorothy Rosby is a syndicated humor columnist and entertaining speaker whose column has appeared in newspapers in Midwestern and Western states since 1996. (The area is home to more cows than people, so the reader should not be overly impressed.)
    
Dorothy grew up in Buffalo, South Dakota, a town of fewer than 400 people in a state that was once left out of the Rand McNally atlas. A former radio announcer, she was once asked by an employer to change her on-air name because “No one can take you seriously with a name like Dorothy.” All of this has led to self-esteem issues that can only be handled with a healthy dose of self-deprecating humor.
    
Dorothy is a member of Toastmasters, the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, and the Black Hills Writers Group. For information on running Dorothy’s column in your newspaper or to subscribe to her column contact her via email or call 605-716-7434.

Awards
• South Dakota Press Women, First Place Humor Column 2008

• City of Foster City,California, Arts & Culture Committee 25th Annual Writers
Contest, First Place Humorous Essay Division, January 2000

• New England Writers Network Humor Contest, Second Place, February 1999

• Loudest Laf Laurel, Scher Maihem Publishing, Runner-up January 1996

• Toastmasters Region IV Humorous Speech Contest, First Place, June 1995

• National Writers Association Articles and Essays Contest, First place May 1995