Laura Schaefer is the author of The Teashop Girls (Simon & Schuster, 2008), a novel for young readers set in Madison, Wisconsin. She got her start as a contributor to the University of Wisconsin’s student paper The Daily Cardinal as its book reviewer and literature page editor. Laura went on to write regularly [...]
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Home » Posts » Archives for May 2010 Kai has been a performing artist for over 15 years, she holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Theater Directing and Design from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she also studied Kinesiology and Movement. She has been a featured storyteller at the Taste of Chicago, African Festival of the Arts, Round [...] Robert A. Birmingham served as Wisconsin State Archaeologist between 1989 and 2004 and is the author of many articles and publications in Wisconsin archaeology and history. He now teaches anthropology at UW- Waukesha and writes from his home in Madision, Wisconsin. He is the co-author of the award winning books Indian Mounds of Wisconsin [...] Jonathan Kasparek earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003 and has written several books and articles on Wisconsin history. A work based on his dissertation, Fighting Son: A Biography of Philip F. La Follette won first place in the political science category at the 2006 Midwest Book Awards. [...] Sandra Kring lives in central Wisconsin. Her debut novel, Carry Me Home, was a Book Sense Notable Pick and a 2005 Midwest Booksellers Choice Award nominee. The Book of Bright Ideas was Target’s Bookmarked pick for the summer of ’06, and named to the New York Public Library’s Books for the Teen Age [...] JoAnn Early Macken’s newest picture books are Waiting Out the Storm (Candlewick Press, 2010) and Flip, Float, Fly: Seeds on the Move (Holiday House, 2008). Baby Says, “Moo!” will be published by Disney-Hyperion Books in spring 2011. JoAnn has also written an assortment of poems, several articles for writers, and more than one [...] Jim Kokoris is the author of three novels, The Rich Part of Life, Sister North and the recently released The Pursuit of Other Interests, He is also a humorist. More than a dozen of his essays have appeared in The Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine and The Chicago Tribune Op/Ed page. He is [...] Peggy Tromblay’s children’s writing includes everything from picture books to novels. Her award-winning work has appeared in various children’s magazines, Writer’s Digest, and The Institute of Children’s Literature’s anthology on revision. Children’s Writer newsletter describes her work as a “great example of humor.” When Peggy’s not writing for kids, she’s acting like one. [...] Stephen D. Sullivan is the award-winning author of more than 30 published books and has worked on more comics and game material than he can easily count. He has been in publishing since 1980, when he moved to Wisconsin to join the Dungeons & Dragons development team. Steve has worked on projects [...] There are things which Chris Keefe hates more than bios, though he is hard pressed to think of any now. Chris’ two alien parents crash landed in Madison in the 1950′s, Chris was born 15 or so years later after his parents finally hit upon the right concoction to grow offspring in the [...] John Galligan is the author of The Wind Knot (February, 2011), fourth in a series of mysteries featuring a wandering trout bum who becomes a reluctanct sleuth when bodies turn up on the stream. The first in the series, The Nail Knot, is “a real treat” (Library Journal) set in Black Earth, Wisconsin. [...] May 22nd, 2010 | Category: 2010 Authors, 2011 Authors, 2012 Authors, Adult Authors, Adult Authors, Adult Authors, Authors List
ELLEN M. KOZAK is a Milwaukee copyright, publishing and media lawyer and the author of several pseudonymous novels, many articles, and three nonfiction books: From Pen to Print: The Secrets of Getting Published Successfully (winner of the Council for Wisconsin Writers Award for best 1990 non-fiction book), Every Writer’s Guide to Copyright and Publishing [...] Liam Callanan is a novelist, essayist and creator of the Poetry Everywhere animated film series. He teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, whose English department he will chair next year. Trudy Knauss Paradis was born in Milwaukee to German immigrant parents. She was raised in a close-knit Milwaukee neighborhood, where residents regularly spoke German on the street. Trudy graduated from Milwaukee-Downer college with a degree in Sociology and Economics. She then took a position with the Department of Army Civilian Service, which took [...] Susan Marshall is an author, speaker and independent business owner whose career spans more than 25 years and includes a wide range of experiences. From an early start as an advertising assistant, she progressed through a series of marketing and general amangement roles before founding Executive Advisor, LLC in 1997. [...] Mary Rickert grew up in Fredonia, Wisconsin. She is the author of the World Fantasy Award winning short story collection, “Map of Dreams.” Her work has been anthologized in The Very Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Interfictions 2, Best American Fantasy 2, Poe’s Children, and the library of America’s American Fantastic Tales, [...] After earning her Masters in Counseling Psychology, Deborah Lynn Jacobs worked as a counselor at a community college in Ontario. After ten years, she and her husband and children moved to the isolated northern town of Kenora, Ontario. There, she taught college courses in psychology as well as pre-employment and job search skills, [...] May 12th, 2010 | Category: 2010 Authors, 2011 Authors, Adult Authors, Adult Authors, Authors List, Childrens Authors, Childrens Authors
Chuck Stebelton works as Literary Program Director at Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee. He is author of Circulation Flowers (Tougher Disguises, 2005). Recent print objects and chapbooks include ‘Tis’ (The John Riepenhoff Experience, 2009); A Maximal Object (Mitzvah Chaps, 2008); Flags and Banners (Bronze Skull Press, 2007); and Precious (Answer Tag Home [...] Nicholas Michael Ravnikar teaches writing, reading and communication (but not necessarily in that order) at Gateway Technical College in Racine and Kaplan University in Milwaukee. In addition to facilitating a variety of non-profit arts workshops over the past nine years, he produced the feature-length documentary Quilts on Barns: The Beauty of Rural Art [...] Patrick Rothfuss published his first book, The Name of the Wind, in 2007. Since then the book has become a New York Times best seller, been praised by authors such as Ursula K LeGuin, and won various awards around the world. When he is not working on the sequel, The Wise Man’s Fear, [...] Karen McQuestion’s essays have appeared in Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, Christian Science Monitor and several anthologies. She is the author of six books self-published on Amazon’s Kindle, one of which, the novel, A Scattered Life, caught the attention of an L.A. based production company and became the first self-published Kindle book to [...] As Senior Editorial Contributor for Publishers Weekly, Barbara Vey brings readers and writers together with her popular Beyond Her Book blog. From her entertaining “Drive By Videos” to reader feedback on books with WW Ladies Book Club, YA Saturday Book Club, Your Turn Friday, BHB continues to grow into a must read daily [...] Eva Augustin Rumpf is the author of the memoir Reclamation: Memories from a New Orleans Girlhood, the satiric novel Prot U and co-author of Til Divorce Do Us Part, a self-help book for women in troubled marriages. She has been a freelance writer for 35 years, publishing hundreds of newpaper and magazine articles. [...] Dori Chaconas was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The second child in a family of seven, she fell into the role of storyteller, nursery rhyme singer, and general entertainer for her siblings. She claims she learned about story pacing early. If the story action lagged, her fidgety audience would either scatter or start a [...] Milwaukee’s Next Door Foundation will be at the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books collecting new and gently used children’s books for their Books for Kids program. This program, founded in 1990, works through book drives like this one to increase literacy and academic success among Milwaukee’s central city children by getting books into the [...] May 8th, 2010 | Category: All Posts
Mary Lou Santovec is a writer and editor living in Jefferson, Wisconsin. She has published articles in newspapers, newsletters and magazines on a variety of topics including higher education, community banking, lifestyles, health and gardening. She is the co-author of two books, 1,001 Commonly Misspelled Words: What Your Spell Checker Won’t Tell You [...] A graduate of Oberlin College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Kelly Dwyer has written two novels, The Tracks of Angels and Self-Portrait with Ghosts, both published by Penguin Putnam Inc., and two children’s books, Sophie’s Magical Windmill and The Dream Tree, published by ArchitectureKids. She has been awarded a Michener/Engle Fellowship, a Wisconsin [...] Sharon Coyle is a storytime presenter/storyteller who loves seeing the excited faces of children when they are listening to a tale. She has been doing storytime programs since 2003 at coffee houses, libraries, day care centers, Toys-R-Us and Babies-R-Us and currently at the Children’s Play Gallery in Delafield. She also has recently [...] Larry Watson is the author of Montana 1948, White Crosses, Orchard, Sundown, Yellow Moon, and others novels. He has published stories and poems in Gettysburg Review, New England Review, North American Review, and other journals and quarterlies. His essays and book reviews have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Sun-Times, the [...] Called the noir poet laureate in the Huffington Post and a hard-boiled poet by NPR’s Maureen Corrigan, Reed Farrel Coleman is the former executive vice president of Mystery Writers of America. He has published thirteen novels in three series and one stand-alone, Tower, co-authored by award-winning Irish author Ken Bruen. Reed has been [...] |
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