Featured Authors

  • Villarreal, Anselmo

    Anselmo Villarreal is the President and CEO of La Casa de Esperanza, a community-based organization dedicated to serving the low-income and Latino population of Waukesha, Wisconsin since 1966.  He has 24 years of experience in non-profit management ...

  • Baker, Deb

    Wisconsin author Deb Baker writes the humorous Yooper/backwoods mysteries, centering around a fictitious town in the Michigan Upper Peninsula where Gertie Johnson, mother of the local sheriff, solves murders the old fashioned way with friends Cora Ma...

  • Foy, Joseph

     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 Cul...

A. Manette Ansay

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A. Manette Ansay grew up in Wisconsin among 67 cousins and over 200 second cousins.   She is the author of six novels, including  Good Things I Wish You (July, 2009) and Vinegar Hill, an Oprah Book Club selection, and Midnight Champagne, a finalist the the National Book Critics Circle award.  In addition, she is the author of  as a short story collection, Read This and Tell Me What It Says and a memoir, Limbo.  Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, a Pushcart Prize, the Nelson Algren Prize, and two Great Lakes Book Awards.  A Professor of English,  she lives with her daughter in Florida where she teaches  in the MFA program at the University of Miami.

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