Katie Hunhoff

Katie Hunhoff

Katie Hunhoff devotes her worklife to publishing the stories of people, places and events that shape the character of South Dakota. She is a native of Yankton County, where she grew up on a small farm and became involved at a young age in South Dakota Magazine, which her parents started in 1985 when she was just seven years old. She graduated from the University of Minnesota and worked briefly in Minnesota and Michigan before coming home. Today she is the magazine’s publisher.

Along with her publishing endeavors, Hunhoff and her magazine staff have also started a coffee house in Yankton called Muddy Mo’s, the nickname of the nearby river. She has become an advocate for the arts in South Dakota and has served on the South Dakota Humanities Council and South Dakotans for the Arts. In 2023 she and her magazine team created a new publication called the South Dakota Arts Journal. She lives in Yankton, just a block from the Missouri, with her teenage son Steven.