BarniskisShannon Barniskis has worked in libraries since 1994 and is currently the Director of the Lomira QuadGraphics Community Library. She consults with small public libraries on user experience issues, space use, and futureplanning, and is also the co-founder of the Center for Public Library Research. 

honn 2 Master printer Tracy Honn is the Director of Silver Buckle Press, a working museum of letterpress printing housed on the second floor of UW-Madison’s Memorial Library. Silver Buckle serves as a living archive of materials and process for the craft, not only collecting vintage printing equipment, but also putting them to use. Honn’s artistic work was recently featured in Design Envy as an example of “gorgeous letterform prints.”

Onalaska resident Sam Scinta is president of Fulcrum Publishing and a lecturer in political science at UW-La Crosse. He has worked as project editor for dozens of Fulcrum’s titles, including two best-selling collections in the Speaker’s Corner Books series on contemporary political and social issues, Spirit and Reason: The Vine Deloria, Jr. Reader and Parting Shots from My Brittle Bow (with Eugene McCarthy).

As the Literary Program Director at Woodland Pattern Book Center, a nonprofit arts organization in Milwaukee, poet Chuck Stebelton has organized poetry marathons and Walk/Readings to Stebelton 2showcase the diverse stories, voices, and strategies for effecting positive change in communities across the country. His works include The Platformist, Circulation Flowers, Asterisk, ‘Tis, A Maximal Object, Flags and Banners, and Precious.