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...

The Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books welcomes authors with books published within the last five years or those with a significant body of work who are willing to meet fans and discuss their work in an open public forum.

Most of our authors appear at the invitation of the Festival. If you are an agent contacting the Festival on behalf of an author who would like to submit a proposal, please direct your inquiry to: Programming@sewibookfest.com