Joy Riggs is an award-winning freelance journalist based in Northfield, Minnesota, a quaint and historic two-college town located 50 miles south of Minneapolis and St. Paul. 

Joy’s writes a column for Minnesota Parent magazine about tween issues, and she is the copy editor for the Voice, the Carleton College alumni magazine.  Her work also has appeared in Minnesota Monthly, Minnesota Good Age, AAA Living, and Minnesota Law & Politics; on Northfield Patch; in the Better Homes and Gardens Special Interest Publications, Beautiful New Homes and Building Ideas; and in newspapers including the Star Tribune, the Des Moines Register, the Indianapolis News and the Northfield News.  Joy specializes in writing about parenting, education, history and travel.

When she’s not writing or editing for others, Joy writes a blog about her great-grandfather, G. Oliver Riggs, and other musical family members at mymusicalfamily.blogspot.com. She is fascinated by Minnesota history, and, as a native of Alexandria, Minn., she truly wants to believe in the authenticity of the Kensington Runestone.

Pictured in the above photo is Joy’s great-aunt, Rosalie Riggs, on a dock in northern Minnesota.

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