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Barbara Kriegsmann is the third-place winner of the 2020 Wisconsin People & Ideas Fiction Contest. A former pharmaceutical executive. Among the functions she directed in her career were strategic planning, product management, marketing research and advertising. In the early 1990s, she was instrumental in the establishment of the Society for the Advancement of Women's Health Research, which continues to be a crucial influence in studying and developing drugs to benefit women. Kriegsmann and her husband have two sons who now have their own families and continue to make her proud. Home is now Washington Island, which provides great neighbors, treasured friends, and a beautiful refuge for writing.