“I always felt I was born into the wrong century,” Patty Pfitsch says. Inspired by her favorite childhood books, Caddie Woodlawn and Little House in the Big Woods, she persuaded her husband to move to a 100 year-old farmhouse in the forgotten hills of southwestern Wisconsin, an hour away from the nearest clothing [...]
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Home » Posts » Archives for January 2010 Picture book author Jim Aylesworth tells his stories with generous doses of loud sounds, rhythms and rhymes. His experiences as a teacher have taught him that these are the elements children like in a story, especially when it is being read aloud. So, in Hanna’s Hog, Aylesworth includes a loud hog call, [...] From 2001-2005, Dr. James J. Lorence served as Eminent Scholar of History at Gainesville State College in Gainesville, GA. Lorence is currently Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Wisconsin-Marathon County, where he taught United States History for thirty-five years. In 2000, he received the Wisconsin Humanities Council’s Governor’s Humanities Award for [...] Julie Bowe grew up just outside of Luck, WI, within a Danish-American community called West Denmark. As a young Dane she learned that blue plates are hung on walls, not set on tables, Christmas trees are danced around, and the secret to a great pot of coffee is a raw egg in the [...] Photo by Pete Jonsson **Sadly, poet Todd Moore passed away unexpectedly in March. The Festival will remember and honor the work of this fine poet with a reading of some of his poems. Please watch for details in our forthcoming schedule of events. ** Todd Moore has had more than a hundred [...] Jacqueline Houtman spent much of her life in training as a scientist, earning a PhD in Medical Microbiology and Immunology. After leaving the lab, she began a career as a freelance science writer. She has written for scientific journals, educational publishers, magazines, and nonprofits. Her middle grade novel, The Reinvention of Edison Thomas [...] January 25th, 2010 | Category: 2010 Authors, 2011 Authors, Adult Authors, Adult Authors, Authors List, Childrens Authors
Joseph J. Foy is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, Law, and Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Foy is the editor of the books Homer Simpson Goes to Washington: American Politics through Popular Culture and SpongeBob SquarePants and Philosophy: Soaking Up Secrets Under the Sea. He also co-edited [...] January 23rd, 2010 | Category: 2010 Authors, 2012 Authors, Adult Authors, Adult Authors, Author SpotLight, Authors List, Childrens Authors, Featured Authors
Janet Halfmann is an award-winning children’s author who strives to make her books come alive for young readers and listeners. She has written more than thirty books, both fiction and nonfiction. Her Civil War era nonfiction picture book, Seven Miles to Freedom: The Robert Smalls Story (Lee & Low Books, 2008), was [...] Margaret Rozga‘s book, 200 Nights and One Day, won a bronze medal for poetry in the 2009 Independent Publishers Book Awards. 200 Nights and One Day tells the story of Milwaukee’s open housing marches in a series of dramatic poems. Milwaukee played a key national role in the civil rights movement, [...]
Susan Firer is the recipient of this year’s Lorine Niedecker Award. Her most recent book is Milwaukee Does Strange Things to People: New & Selected Poems 1970-2007. Her book The Lives of the Saints and Everything won the Cleveland State Poetry Center Prize and the Posner Award, and The Laugh We [...] Milwaukee native Paul McComas is the author of four critically acclaimed books: his comprehensive genre collection Unforgettable: Harrowing Futures, Horrors, and Dark Humor (2011), the deal for which was made at last year’s SEWI Book Fest (and which features the Bradbury Award-winning story “Levitation”); the comedic coming-of-age novel Planet of the Dates (2008; [...] January 20th, 2010 | Category: 2010 Authors, 2011 Authors, Adult Authors, Adult Authors, Authors List
Jerry Apps Jerry Apps, born and raised on a Wisconsin farm, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of more than 25 books, many of them on rural history and country life. His nonfiction books include: Living a Country Year, Every Farm Tells a Story, When Chores Were Done, [...] Sarah Busse is the co-editor of the poetry magazine Verse Wisconsin, and the author of two chapbooks: Quiver (Red Dragonfly Press, 2009) and Given These Magics (Finishing Line Press, 2010). She is the co-author of a picture book, Banjo Granny (Houghton Mifflin 2006), with her mother, Jacqueline Briggs Martin. Sarah received her MFA [...] John Schoenknecht was born and raised in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. After attending UW-Oshkosh, he began a career as a middle school art teacher in the Waukesha, Wisconsin School District. He earned is Master’s Degree in Education from Carroll University in 1992. While in Waukesha, he became interested in the numerous [...] Victoria Houston is the author of the Loon Lake Mystery Series — DEAD MADONNA, DEAD HOT SHOT, DEAD RENEGADE, DEAD DECEIVER and DEAD TEASE. DEAD TEASE, twelfth in the series, was published in hardcover, trade paperback and as an eBook for Kindle, Nook and iTunes by F & W Crime/Tyrus Books in [...] January 12th, 2010 | Category: 2010 Authors, 2012 Authors, Adult Authors, Adult Authors, Adult Authors, Authors List, Featured Authors
Shari Anton’s resume lists an impressive string of job titles, from personnel clerk to executive secretary. When she took a creative writing class and found she possessed some talent for writing fiction, she dared to dream of a career that allowed her to work at home, shun panty hose and take unlimited coffee [...] KATHIE GIORGIO’S short story collection, “Enlarged Hearts,” is due to be released in early 2012 by the Main Street Rag Publishing Company. Her first novel, “The Home For Wayward Clocks,” was released on February 1, 2011, by the Main Street Rag Publishing Company as well. Her short stories have appeared in Los [...] January 8th, 2010 | Category: 2010 Authors, 2011 Authors, 2012 Authors, Adult Authors, Adult Authors, Adult Authors, Authors List, Featured Authors
Lynne Austin lives in Waukesha, Wisconsin, with her husband and four grown children. Lynne draws from her experiences as a registered nurse, holistic practitioner, and spiritual teacher. As her clients have reached out to her, looking for answers in life, she realized that we are all seekers, no matter what age. This prompted [...] Drawing of Paul Buhle by Steve Chappell Paul Buhle, retired Senior Lecturer at Brown University, now living in Madison, Wisconsin, is author or editor of forty-one volumes including nine comic art books. He is a frequent collaborator with Harvey Pekar, and their two most recent volumes are THE BEATS and STUDS TERKEL’S [...] January 4th, 2010 | Category: 2010 Authors, 2011 Authors, Adult Authors, Adult Authors, Authors List
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