Scott Wrobel earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Minnesota State University Mankato and a BA in Literature/Creative Writing from Southwest Minnesota State University. He has been teaching college writing and literature since 1996, and at Anoka Ramsey since 2004.  His interests include contemporary fiction, short fiction, satire and comedy, screenwriting, and creative nonfiction. He mainly teaches ENGL 1121 but also Intro to Creative Writing, Creative Nonfiction, and Screenwriting, along with Intro to Literature and Short Stories.

As a writer, Scott mainly writes fiction and creative nonfiction. He has published stories and essays in many publications. He won a 2006-07 Loft Mentor Series Fiction Award and the Third Coast 2008 Nonfiction Competition and was nominated for the Best New American Writers of 2009. His book of darkly comic stories about American suburbia, Cul De Sac, was published in the spring of 2012.  See http://www.scottwrobe.org for information on his writing, and his college course web site at webs.anokaramsey.edu/wrobel.