Andy Marso grew up in St. Cloud and graduated from Cathedral High School before leaving Minnesota to attend the University of Kansas. He has written for the St. Cloud Times, Washington Post and Topeka Capital-Journal, among other publications. He lives in Topeka, where he is a journalist for the Kansas Health Institute News Service and his first book, Worth the Pain: How Meningitis Nearly Killed Me—Then Changed My Life for the Better, is available on Amazon.