Fabu Carter Brisco is Madison’s 3rd Poet Laureate. Her poetry focuses on children, women, and African Americans. Poems, Dreams and Roses, a compilation of poetry about Fabu’s growing up as a poet is aimed at encouraging young poets and was published in December 2009. In Our Own Tongues will be published by The [...]
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Home » Posts » Archives for February 2010 Kashmira Sheth was born and raised in India and came to the United States to attend college. After receiving her BS from the Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa and MS in bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she worked for the Wisconsin Agriculture Department for 15 years. About twelve years ago she [...] Kimberly Pauley loves a good book you can sink your teeth into. Sucks to Be Me: The All-True Confessions of Mina Hamilton, Teen Vampire (maybe), a comic coming of age vampire story, was her first novel. She majored in English at the University of Florida and took as many classes in adolescent fiction [...] Maribeth Fischer’s first novel, The Language of Goodbye, was awarded Virginia Commonwealth University’s First Novel Award for 2002. Fischer’s second novel, The Life You Longed For, chosen as an April 2007 BookSense Notable Book, as well as a alternate book selection the Literary Guild, was cited by The Library Journal as “a perfect [...] Bonnie Leick (pronunciation: like) grew up on a dairy farm in Central Wisconsin where as a child, she spent her summers picking rocks in the fields and baling hay. Year-round she was a “Calf Care Specialist”; i.e., she fed calves. Bonnie’s artwork has sometimes been defined as quirky and humorous. Although she [...] THE POETRY PEOPLE first met as students of poetry, writing and workshopping at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha under the careful eye of Dr. Phil Zweifel. In 1997, the classmates decided to share their work with others and formed as The Poetry People. Their first public reading was hosted by Martha Merrell’s Bookstore and [...] February 14th, 2010 | Category: 2010 Authors, 2011 Authors, Adult Authors, Adult Authors, Authors List
Kathi is a graduate of the Vermont College MFA Program in Writing for Children and Young Adults. In addition to writing, she works part-time as an occupational therapist. In the past, she has worked with teens in crisis and has publications in a variety of occupational therapy journals and books. Currently, she lives [...] Tom Montag is a middlewestern poet and essayist who is interested in place, the way place shapes us, and the way we are shaped by it. Curlew: Home is his memoir of growing up on an Iowa farm. The Idea of the Local is his collection of essays about people and place. He [...] Lori Handeland has written nearly fifty novels, novellas and short stories in several genres–historical, contemporary, series and paranormal romance, as well as urban fantasy–for such publishers as: Dorchester, Kensington, Harlequin, St. Martin’s Press, Harper-Collins and Simon and Schuster. She is a New York Times, USA Today, Waldenbooks and Bookscan Bestselling Author and the [...] Janet Piehl is a children’s librarian and author. A former editor of children’s books, she has written more than ten nonfiction books on topics ranging from Harry Houdini to chipmunks. She currently works at the Wilmette Public Library outside of Chicago. CANDACE DECKER has worked as a professional actress, singer, storyteller and taught acting workshops for children for the past 22 years. As a storyteller she has served as an artist-in-residence in the Chicago-area school system, performed for children throughout Maryland with BOOKPALS, and as a volunteer reader in the public school system. [...] Kris Radish fell in love with words as a little girl when she discovered the joy of reading about Nancy Drew. By the beginning of eighth grade she had read every book in her local Wisconsin library and knew she was going to be a writer. With almost a million of her bestselling [...] Ellen Kort served as Wisconsin’s first Poet Laureate from 2000-2004. She has traveled widely and for decades has been committed to poetry, teaching, giving public readings, and facilitating workshops and retreats. She offers poetry workshops at medical conventions for physicians and psychologist’s. She has a passion for the natural process of writing and [...] Jack is the president of 800-CEO-READ, now an independent company, but longtime partner of the Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops. Hired twenty-five years ago by the late David Schwartz to promote business and computer books to the Milwaukee business community, Jack used his considerable sales skills and innate business acumen to grow that 3-shelf [...]
NPR commentator Beth Finke is the author of Hanni and Beth: Safe & Sound” (Blue Marlin Publications) a winner of the ASPCA’s Henry Bergh Award for children’s literature. Her memoir “Long Time, No See” (University of Illinois Press) is featured on the Book Sense Top Ten list of University [...] |
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