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Decker, Candace

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CANDACE DECKER has worked as a professional actress, singer, storyteller and taught acting workshops for children for the past 22 years. As a storyteller she has served as an artist-in-residence in the Chicago-area school system,… 

Kris Radish

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Kris Radish fell in love with words as a little girl when she discovered the joy of reading about Nancy Drew. By the beginning of eighth grade she had read every book in her local… 

Kort, Ellen

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Ellen Kort served as Wisconsin’s first Poet Laureate from 2000-2004. She has traveled widely and for decades has been committed to poetry, teaching, giving public readings, and facilitating workshops and retreats. She offers poetry workshops… 

Covert, Jack

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Jack is the president of 800-CEO-READ, now an independent company, but longtime partner of the Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops. Hired twenty-five years ago by the late David Schwartz to promote business and computer books to the… 

Finke, Beth

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  NPR commentator Beth Finke is the author of  Hanni and Beth: Safe & Sound”  (Blue Marlin Publications) a winner of the ASPCA’s Henry Bergh Award for children’s literature. Her memoir “Long Time, No See” (University of…