Heidi Marttila-Losure has a variety of titles: owner, creative director and story maestro are a few. She can put her 15 years of professional journalism and design experience to work helping your project shine.

Heidi grew up on a farm near Frederick, S.D., and graduated from Frederick High School. She attended Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn., and worked at daily newspapers in Asheville, N.C., and Ames, Iowa, before returning with her family to her home farm in 2008. She started Dakotafire Media with business partner Troy McQuillen in 2011. Troy left the business in 2014. Today, in addition to running Dakotafire Media, Heidi is co-owner with her husband, David, of Dakota Sisu Farm, as well as mother to two children.

She just recently finished the book Sky Theater: Essays on Rural Life and Community from the Editor of Dakotafire Magazine, set to be released Sept. 5. 2017.