Janus, Ed

Ed Janus spent two years as a dairy farmer in Crawford County, Wisconsin, where he fell in love with cows, fields, barns, and farmers. Since then he has interviewed hundreds of people as an audio journalist, writer, and oral historian and has created radio programs for public radio, the Voice of America, and publishers Read more…

Hellman, Libby Fischer

Libby Fischer Hellmann, an award-winning crime fiction author, has published seven novels. Her most recent, SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE, is a stand-alone thriller, goes back, in part, to the late Sixties in Chicago. She also writes two crime fiction series. The first, which includes the hard-boiled EASY INNOCENCE (2008) Read more…

Geye, Peter

Peter Geye received his MFA from the University of New Orleans and his PHD from Western Michigan University, where he was editor of Third Coast. He was born and raised in Minneapolis and continues to live there with his wife and three children.  Safe From the Sea is his first Read more…

Barry, Lynda

Lynda Barry has worked as a painter, cartoonist, writer, illustrator, playwright, editor, commentator and teacher and found they are very much alike. She is the inimitable creator behind Ernie Pook’s Comeek, the seminal comic strip that was syndicated scross North America in alternative weeklies for two decades. She is the Read more…

Honeywell, Alice

After being an “at-home” mom and attending college part-time until she graduated, Alice pursued her career at the University of Wisconsin. Twenty years later she retired from her position as senior editor and publications director at the La Follette School of Public Affairs. In retirement she leads writing workshops for Read more…

O’Donohue, Clare

Clare O’Donohue is the author of MISSING PERSONS, the first in the Kate Conway Mysteries, as well as three Someday Quilts Mysteries (THE LOVERS KNOT, A DRUNKARD’S PATH & THE DOUBLE CROSS.  Clare began her writing career as a newspaper reporter for a small weekly paper outside Joliet, Illinois. She Read more…

Kuehnert, Stephanie

Stephanie Kuehnert got her start writing bad poetry about unrequited love and razor blades in eighth grade. In high school, she discovered punk rock and produced several DIY feminist ‘zines. Stephanie received her MFA in creative writing from Columbia College Chicago and was named to Newcity’s Lit 50 in 2008. Her debut Read more…

Mulroy, David

David Mulroy holds a BA from Georgetown and a PhD in Classics from Stanford.  He is now a professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he has worked since 1973.  He has published four books of translations of ancient Greek and Latin Poetry, Early Greek Lyric Poetry (Michigan Read more…

Buzzelli, Elizabeth Kane

Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli is a writer who writes—constantly.  She is a book reviewer with the alternative newspaper, The Northern Express, in Traverse City, Michigan. Her short stories have appeared in many journals.  She has had essays turned into stage pieces and performed.  Her first mystery novel, Gift of Evil, was Read more…