Kurt Ullrich's essays have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Houston Chronicle, Des Moines Register, Cedar Rapids Gazette, Quad-City Times, Dubuque Telegraph Herald, and many others. His photographs have appeared in the Boston Globe, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Des Moines Register, and many other newspapers. He lives in rural Jackson County, Iowa, with his wife, Bobbi Alpers.