Wheeler, Lisa
Lisa Wheeler has written 17 books for children including Dino-Hockey, Sailor Moo: Cow at Sea, When Pigs Fly and Mammoths on the Move. Awards include the Michigan Library Association’s 2004 Mitten Award for Old Cricket,…
Albert, Lisa
Lisa Rondinelli Albert grew up in Milwaukee where she spent countless hours at Finney Library. Lisa’s most recent nonfiction book, Stephenie Meyer: Author of the Twilight Saga (Enslow 2009), is the very first biography of…
Angel, Ann
Ann Angel has written many young adult biographies including the forthcoming Janis Joplin, Rise Up Singing (Abrams 2010). She served as contributing editor for the highly acclaimed Such a Pretty Face, Short Stories About Beauty…
Peterson, Ann Voss
A creative writing major in college, Ann worked as a bartender, a horse show groom and a professional window washer before publishing her first romantic suspense novel in 2000 with Harlequin Intrigue. Since then, she…
Giorgio, Michael
Michael Giorgio got his start in writing in what many consider a dead, or at least a lost, art: Radio Drama. His first work won a national scriptwriting contest and a love of writing was…
Green, Doris
Doris Green is a communications specialist with the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has published Wisconsin Community Banking News magazine for the Community Bankers of Wisconsin since 1997. She has…
Chapman, Fern Schumer
The Junior Library Guild has selected Fern Schumer Chapman’s new book, Is It Night or Day? (March 2010), as a spring title. In a starred review, Booklist called the work ”powerful and eloquent,” adding, ”as…
Salsini, Paul
Paul Salsini is a veteran Milwaukee journalist, having been a reporter, state editor and staff development director at The Milwaukee Journal. He now teaches writing courses in the Diederich College of Communication at Marquette University.…
Schwartz, Carol
For many years Carol has illustrated for a wide variety of magazines, newspapers, advertising, and text and trade books for children. Her work has appeared in over 45 picture books. In 1991, her illustrations first…
Konopacki, Mike
Mike Konopacki is a political/labor cartoonist living in Madison, Wisconsin. He began labor cartooning for the Madison Press Connection, a local daily created by striking newspaper workers in 1978. After the paper folded in 1980,…