A creative writing major in college, Ann worked as a bartender, a horse show groom and a professional window washer before publishing her first romantic suspense novel in 2000 with Harlequin Intrigue.  Since then, she has published twenty-one novels and garnered many award nominations and wins.  Her titles for Intrigue include [...]

Michael Giorgio got his start in writing in what many consider a dead, or at least a lost, art: Radio Drama. His first work won a national scriptwriting contest and a love of writing was born. Since then, he has had over a dozen audio scripts produced in Newark, Los Angeles, Akron, San [...]

Doris Green is a communications specialist with the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has published Wisconsin Community Banking News magazine for the Community Bankers of Wisconsin since 1997. She has more than twenty years of previous experience in publishing and public relations for nonprofit, for-profit, and public agencies.

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The Junior Library Guild has selected Fern Schumer Chapman’s new book, Is It Night or Day? (March 2010), as a spring title. In a starred review, Booklist called the work ”powerful and eloquent,” adding, ”as with the best writing, the specifics about life as a young immigrant are universal.” A prequel to Chapman’s [...]

Paul Salsini is a veteran Milwaukee journalist, having been a reporter, state editor and staff development director at The Milwaukee Journal. He now teaches writing courses in the Diederich College of Communication at Marquette University. He was the Wisconsin correspondent for The New York Times for twenty years and his travel essays have [...]

Mike Konopacki is a political/labor cartoonist living in Madison, Wisconsin. He began labor cartooning for the Madison Press Connection, a local daily created by striking newspaper workers in 1978. After the paper folded in 1980, Mike began syndicating his labor cartoons through the labor news service, Press Associates, Inc. In 1983 he and [...]

At heart, Peef and Lo (aka Paul and Lori Fredrich) are just two devoted Milwaukeeans who share a passion for seasonal cooking, local eating, and fantastic entertaining. They haunt farmer’s markets in the summer, and befriend local farmers, restaurateurs, and food artisans every chance they get. And there’s nothing they love more than [...]

Ilona Fridl was born in Southern California and came to live in Wisconsin in 1971. She took creative writing in college, but never took her dream anywhere until her husband, Mark, bought their first computer in 1995. Then she has sold through the years several short stories and articles to magazines. She landed [...]

C.J. Hribal is the author of the novels The Company Car, which received the Anne Powers Book Award, and American Beauty, and of the short fiction collections Matty’s Heart and The Clouds in Memphis, which won the AWP Award for Short Fiction. He also edited The Boundaries of Twilight: Czecho-Slovak Writing from the [...]

Abby Frucht won the Iowa Short Fiction award for her collection of stories, FRUIT OF THE MONTH, in 1987. Since then she has published five novels, raised two sons, been award two national endowment for the arts fellowships, and served as mentor and advisor for fifteen years at Vermont College of Fine Arts. [...]

Heather McComas won the 2008 Leo Love Merit Scholarship to attend the Taos Summer Writers’ Conference, where she studied with Pam Houston. Heather’s short story “What You’re Looking At” was published in the 2007 anthology Further Persons Imperfect; she has also been published as a science writer.  She is currently finishing a [...]

Deb DiSandro, owner of Slightly Off, is a professional speaker, author, writing coach, instructor and purseologist. For 20 years, she has shared her Slightly Off Success Principles with writers and audiences across the country. Deb demonstrates how embracing a more fun and realistic approach to life’s challenges leads to laughter, learning and success.

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