When Della Gritsch was a senior at Iowa Falls-Alden she knew she wanted to go into English – but she always said she wasn’t going to be a teacher.
She went to the University of Iowa and majored in creative writing and publishing, with the idea of going into publishing. Her senior year in college – she was supposed to graduate in 2020 when COVID hit – she decided to add a third major.
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