Philip Martin is a Milwaukee-based and award-winning book author, editor, and indie-press publisher. Previously acquisitions editor for The Writer Books (connected with The Writer magazine), he now directs Great Lake Literary, offering support services for…
SARA RATH is a versatile, award-winning author with over a dozen books in a variety of genres, including four volumes of poetry, seven nonfiction books (including three biographies) and is currently writing her third novel. Critics…
Philip Chard is President & CEO of NEAS, Inc., a global EAP, Work/Life and behavioral solutions firm serving over 300 companies representing 1.9 million lives. He writes an award-winning weekly column in the MILWAUKEE JOURNAL…
Wisconsin author Deb Baker has written two mystery series. The Dolls To Die For series features a Phoenix, Arizona doll collecting club and member Gretchen Birch, who solves murders with her new age Aunt Nina…
Brenda Cárdenas is the 2010-2012 Poet Laureate of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her collection of poetry Boomerang was published by Bilingual Review Press in 2009, and her chapbook From the Tongues of Brick and Stone by Momotombo…
Karl Gartung grew up in Liberal, Kansas (an actual place and a real contradiction). Thirty years ago he founded Woodland Pattern Book Center with Anne Kingsbury and Karl Young. Fortunately, that center continues as an…
Carol Fisher Saller is the author of The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships With Your Writers, Your Colleagues and Yourself) as well as several books for children. She…
Twenty-odd years after she edited the yearbook at Catholic Memorial High School in Waukesha, Mary E. Laur is a member of the editorial team that produces the iconic Chicago Manual of Style (soon to be…
Raised in what was then a small Wisconsin farming community Allan did not see a real library until he was forced onto a bus to attend high school. There he found Holmes and Christie. After…
Jeff Poniewaz received a B.A. and M.A. in English from UW-Milwaukee, where since 1989 he’s taught “Literature of Ecological Vision,” a course he devised. His eco-activism spans from local urban greenspace struggles to the global…
