Alice Benson lives in Wisconsin with her wife and their dog. She recently retired from a job in a human services field; previously she spent over thirteen years working with a domestic violence program. Her short work has appeared in a variety of publications. Both Alice’s novels, Her Life is Showing and A Year in Her Life were published by Black Rose Writing. She wrote a middle-grade novel with her granddaughter, Trapped in a Tablet, which was published in June 2025 by Watchful Wizard Press. For more information, visit Alice’s website: www.alicebensonauthor.com.
Mary Bergin has traveled the world but is most likely to pay attention to her home turf, the often-overlooked Midwest U.S. Her writing specialties are regional food quirks and remarkable destinations that are lesser known to the averageraveler. Two of her six books are Eat Smart in Germany, a culinary travel guidebook, and Wisconsin Supper Club Cookbook, in its 13th printing.
B.J. Best is the author of seven collections of poetry, including the video game-inspired But Our Princess Is in Another Castle. His story “And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One” won the Interactive Fiction Competition in 2021. Most recently, he’s published Radio Ghosts, a narrative game for the original Game Boy, which is available on Steam.
Angela Bier is a former pediatrician, mother, and a Wisconsinite from birth. Her interests run the gamut from genealogy to the obsessive collecting of perennials, from pilates to creative napping. Voices is her second book, the first was a work of nonfiction genealogical mystery titled The Accidental Archivist. She is a member of AllWriters Workplace & Workshop and a member of the Door County Published Authors Collective. She lives between Franklin and Gills Rock, Wisconsin, with her husband, two daughters, and two dogs.
Del Blackwater is a novelist and travel writer based in Wisconsin. Her life vacillates wildly between a quiet existence in the country and a feverish, risk-centric existence when on the road. Her travels have taken her to four continents, and she makes questionable decisions in all of them. While Egypt is inevitably the high-water mark of both her travels and her writing, she tries to spend time in other places as well. Del is the author of Dead Egyptians, a historical fantasy series set in the Edwardian era. She is also published many times over as a board game and tarot deck designer, notably as the creator of Playlist Wars, a music game. When not keeping busy, she unwinds by taking care of a menagerie of critters and enjoying something she calls porch time.
Jacob Boyd is a poet, novelist, and teacher. No Lost Feast, his debut full-length collection of poems, is due out this winter from Cornerstone Press.
James Buchholz had a 40-year career as a Wisconsin State Park Ranger and Supervisor. In his spare time, Mr. Buchholz authored several published articles and wrote a bi-monthly nature column for the Sheboygan Press for 12 years. His first published book, Wild Wisconsin Notebook was widely popular as is his latest book, Wisconsin State Parks, Forests, and Recreation Areas- A Ranger’s Guide.
Brenda Cárdenas is the current Wisconsin Poet Laureate. She has authored Trace (Red Hen Press), winner of the 2023 Society of Midland Authors Award for Poetry and silver winner of Foreword Review’s Indie Poetry Prize; Boomerang (Bilingual Press); and three chapbooks. She also co-edited Resist Much/Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance and Between the Heart and the Land: Latina Poets in the Midwest. Her poems and essays have appeared in many literary journals and anthologies, including Best of the Net Anthology (2024) Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Braving the Body, Latinx Poetics: The Art of Poetry, and Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Anthology, among others and is currently Professor Emerita of English at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Amber R. Cederström is an editor at the University of Wisconsin Press, where she acquires titles primarily in classical, folklore, Nordic, and Russian and Eastern European studies. She has a BA in Folklore and Mythology, an MPhil in Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, and a PhD in Scandinavian Studies–Folklore. Originally from the suburbs of New York City, she now lives in Stoughton, WI with her husband, their young child, and one elderly cat.
Steph Cherrywell is the author of the middle grade novels Unboxing Libby and The Ink Witch. They have previously written and illustrated graphic novels for older readers, and written and programmed the IFComp-winning text adventures Brain Guzzlers from Beyond and Zozzled. They live in the Milwaukee area, where they work as a librarian and enjoy reading, RPGs, and exploring the city’s bike trails.
Shelly Conley is Milwaukee’s newest Poet Laureate. She is a writer and performer whose work inspires healing, forgiveness, and empowerment. Author of Rewind – A Cathartic Autobiography and Freeing – A Collection of Poems, she also serves as Program Director of My Sista’s KeepHer, amplifying youth voices through poetry and self-expression.
Katherine J. Cramer is the Natalie C. Holton Chair of Letters & Science and the Virginia Sapiro Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of 6 books including The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and the forthcoming book with Larry Bartels, The Politics of Social Change: From the Sixties to the Present Through the Eyes of a Generation (University of Chicago Press, February 2026).
Rich Dahm, a Wisconsin native, is a former editor of The Onion and an Emmy-winning television writer and producer. Rich served as a co-executive producer on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report and the ABC-TV sitcom The Middle, and is one of the co-authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller I Am America (And So Can You).
Marisa Rae Dondlinger‘s novels include Come And Get Me, Gray Lines, Open, and Scenes From a Bar. Her newest novel, SoulMates, will be released in September 2026. An avid reader, sports fan, and margarita connoisseur, Marisa lives in Wisconsin with her husband and two young daughters.
Karen Cutler Drecktrah is an official “Cheesehead” having lived in Wisconsin her entire life. She graduated with an Associate of Arts Degree from Wisconsin Lutheran College and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Carthage College.
Besides being a voracious reader, she’s an avid sports fan, including tennis. She’s had a short story that was recorded and aired on Our American Stories national radio program and written a few short stories that have appeared in Christmas anthologies. She and her newly retired husband currently live in Appleton, Wisconsin and she is an Accounting Clerk for the Plant Payroll and the Accounts Payable at a dairy manufacturing plant in Neenah, Wisconsin.
Little Ida – The Story of a Family Tree is her first novel.
Chip Duncan is a Filmmaker. Photographer. Storyteller. Poet. The Iowa native and UW-Madison graduate has written and directed more than 70 non-fiction films with distribution in more than 200 countries. His still photography has been featured in three books, shown in numerous galleries and museums, and exhibited at the World Peace Festival in Berlin and the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City. In a career that spans four decades of global documentary production including interviews with six U.S. Presidents and numerous cabinet officials, Duncan has put strong emphasis on the spiritual and cultural lives of marginalized populations. His work includes documentation in numerous crisis zones such as Ukraine, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Darfur, Haiti, Pakistan, and Nicaragua resulting in several non-fiction books including A Different War, which won a First Place award for non-fiction in the 33rd annual Writer’s Digest Awards, and Enough to Go Around–Searching for Hope in Afghanistan, Pakistan & Darfur. Duncan’s most recent documentary film production is Stand Together as One–The Famine, The Music, The Impact (2025) which includes the final on-camera interview with singer-activist Harry Belafonte.
Kathleen Ernst is a social historian, educator, and bestselling author. Kathleen’s forty-plus published books encompass mysteries, historical fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. Between These Rivers is the result of a monthlong residency at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. A Most Perilous Journey is the most recent book in the Hanneke Bauer historical mystery series about a newly-arrived German immigrant. The Chloe Ellefson Mysteries feature a museum curator whose knowledge of the past helps solve contemporary crimes. Kathleen’s children’s books include twenty titles for American Girl.
Honors for Kathleen’s work include a National Park Service Residency, multiple Agatha nominations, an Edgar nomination, a Lovey Award for Best Traditional Mystery, the American Heritage Women in the Arts Recognition Award for Literature from the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, a Major Achievement Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers, the Sterling North Legacy Award for Children’s Literature, and an Emmy Award for Children’s Instructional Programming.
Kathleen lives in Stoughton, Wisconsin, with her husband Scott and feline muse Eliza.
Kathryn Gahl is an award-wining poet and writer who is courageous. Hopeful. Funny. Limber. Talker and listener. Dancer. Friend to many. Grief queen. Thin-skinned. Deep sleeper. Addicted to dark chocolate. Confused by guns. Loves red lipstick. And her grandson’s belly laugh.
Barb Geiger, retired teacher turned adventurer, lives and writes in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Her memoir, Paddle for a Purpose, received the 2019 PenCraft Award for Literary Excellence and the 2024 International Impact Award. Barb’s short memoir and poetry have appeared in several anthologies and Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets’ calendars, and her poetry chapbook, Mississippi Meanderings, was released in 2024 by Finishing Line Press.
Maggie Ginsberg is the author of the novel Still True, published by the University of Wisconsin Press and winner of the 2023 WLA Literary Award for Fiction. It was the honorable mention selection for the 2022 Edna Ferber Fiction Book Award, and is the 2026 inaugural pick for the WiLS statewide Wisconsin Reads digital book club. Maggie is also a nonfiction writer who published hundreds of articles throughout her career, earning numerous honors from the City Regional Magazine Association, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Milwaukee Press Club, and others. She is the former managing editor at Madison Magazine, and now works full-time as a writer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her website is www.maggieginsberg.com.
Kathie Giorgio is the critically acclaimed author of eight novels, as well as two story collections, a collection of essays, and five poetry books. Another new poetry book, The Birth Of A Widow, will be released by Kelsay Books in the fall of 2026. She’s been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in fiction and poetry and awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Wisconsin Library Association, the Silver Pen Award for Literary Excellence, the Pencraft Award for Literary Excellence, and the Eric Hoffer Award In Fiction. Her poem “Light” won runner-up in the 2021 Rosebud Magazine Poetry Prize and her poem, “Again”, won first prize in the Wisconsin Writers Association’s Jade Ring contest. She is a two-time winner of the Zona Gale Short Fiction Award, for her stories, “Quiet” and “Recipe”. Her short story, “Snapdragon”, was performed on stage for the Stories On Stage series at Su Teatro theatre in Boulder, Colorado. Her poem, “Harvest Moon”, was included in the Poetry Leaves exhibition in Waterford, Michigan. In a recent column, Jim Higgins, the books editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, included Giorgio in a list of the top 21 Wisconsin writers of the 21st century.
Besides being a writer, Giorgio is also the director and founder of the international creative writing studio, AllWriters’ Workplace & Workshop LLC. AllWriters’ offers online and on-site courses and workshops in all genres and abilities of creative writing, as well as coaching and editing services. Thousands of writers worldwide have gotten their start at AllWriters’, and thousands have continued their career there. Giorgio has taught for 30 years. Kathie lives in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Visit her at https://www.kathiegiorgio.org
Dasha Kelly Hamilton is a writer, performer and creative change agent. She is author of three books of fiction, three books of poetry and founder of a literary nonprofit celebrating 25 years of cultural organizing. She is Poet Laureate emerita for the City of Milwaukee and the State of Wisconsin.
Kira Henschel is an award-winning publisher who founded HenschelHAUS Publishing in 2002 after working as production manager at a small, independent press. She holds a master’s degree in Engineering Management and bachelors’ degrees in Geology and International Relations. Kira also taught at Milwaukee School of Engineering’s in the School of Business. Before that, she lived in Austria for 13 years and established a technical German-to-English translation agency on a wide range of topics. Kira has been guiding authors down the path to publication for more than 25 years and has published over 500 titles.
Ross Hightower is a long time resident of various southern venues who somehow found himself moving to Milwaukee with his partner and co-author, Deb Heim. One cold snowy morning he went to a coffee shop on a whim and started writing. Five years later he is an award winning author of the Spirit Song and Spirit Song: Rebels Rising fantasy series.
B.J. Hollars is the author of several books, including the award-winning book Wisconsin for Kennedy: The Primary That Launched a President and Changed The Course of History. He is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, and a columnist for The Leader-Telegram.
Deborah Hufford is a Wisconsin career magazine editor who began at Better Homes & Gardens, then served as editor of several national magazines and a freelance writer with credits in New York Times Magazine, New York Times, Connoisseur, as well as teaching writing at the University of Iowa, Marquette and Northwestern Universities. After struggling for years with kidney failure, she received a kidney from her husband and recently published her critically-acclaimed debut, Book of the Year novel, Blood to Rubies, now an Amazon #1 bestseller. Her next novel, Sapphires in Ashes, about the Peshtigo and Chicago fires, comes out in 2026.
Jeanette Hurt is an author and cocktail historian. Her drink books include Wisconsin Cocktails, Drink Like a Woman, and The Whiskey Sour. She also penned the Unofficial ALDI Cookbook. She loves to entertain with her husband, their son and chihuahua-Great Pyrenees mix.
Erin Irelan is the co-owner of Story Keepers Books, a used bookstore in West Allis, Wisconsin. Since opening in December 2024, the shop has become a community hub, hosting author events, book clubs, workshops, and partnerships with local schools and organizations. Erin manages daily operations, event programming, and curation of the store’s shelves with an emphasis on diverse voices and local authors.
Alongside the bookstore, Erin works as a freelance editor and communications consultant, providing manuscript editing and content development support for authors and small businesses. Her editorial work is grounded in nearly 20 years of professional experience in marketing and communications, where she specialized in strategic messaging, content creation, and community engagement across nonprofit, healthcare, and financial sectors.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communications from the University of Michigan and a Master’s degree in Communications from Purdue University.
Katie Kalisz is the author of Quiet Woman (Main Street Rag, 2018), and Flu Season (Cornerstone Press, 2025). She is the recipient of a 2023 Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, and her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She lives in Michigan with her husband and their three children.
Gene Kannenberg, Jr. has written about comics for The Comics Journal, The International Journal of Comic Art, Hogan’s Alley, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, as well as chapters for several academic anthologies. He’s also an abstract cartoonist and paper engineer. His most recent publication is Here Comes Charlie Brown: A Peanuts Pop-Up from Abrams ComicArts.
Rebecca Keller is an award-winning writer, an internationally exhibited artist, a Fulbright Artist/Scholar, and recipient of grants from National Endowment for the Arts and Illinois Arts Council. Her fiction has appeared in New Fairy Tales; Calyx; Great Lakes Review, Hawai’I Pacific Review and other journals and anthologies. She has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. You Should Have Known her debut novel, was published by Crooked Lane/ Random House. Her work is included in the upcoming collection 20 Over 60 scheduled for release by Regal House this fall. She is currently working on another novel.
J.R. Konkol is a classical pianist and marginal triathlete, and is permitted to live in the sprawling home of four very large cats. He published his first tabletop RPG, Of Gods and Men, in the early 90s, and has been running games within that setting ever since. He recently returned to writing with the hope of sharing those stories with a wider audience.
Betsy Korbinyr is an award-winning author who uses her 30+ years of social work experience to weave together a professional and personal story of aging and resilience; inviting the reader to learn more about themselves along with her. A native Wisconsinite, who grew up above a cheese factory and on a century-old farm, she has hiked in multiple states and several countries. Her book was recently honored as one of two books chosen to represent the state at the 2025 National Book Festival in Washington, DC.
Rich Koslowski was born, and still resides, in Milwaukee, WI. He is the award-winning writer and artist on books such as: Three Fingers; The King; BB Wolf and the Three LPs; and, most recently, his two F.A.R.M. SYSTEM graphic novels with Top Shelf Productions.
Taylor Hamann Los holds an MFA from Lindenwood University. Her poetry has been published in a variety of literary journals, and her debut poetry chapbook, Between My Spine & the River (Ridge Books), was published in March 2025.
Peter McDonald is an Assistant Professor in the department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His books include Run and Jump: The Meaning of the 2D Platformer (MIT Press, 2024) and The Impossible Reversal: A History of How We Play (University of Minnesota Press, 2026).
Natasha Meyer is the owner of The Well Red Damsel, Wisconsin’s first romance bookstore. What began as a pop-up built from her love of reading and community, has grown into a permanent home for romance readers in Milwaukee. Natasha is passionate about creating an inclusive, welcoming space where every reader can find their happily ever after.
Doug Moe has been a journalist and nonfiction author in Wisconsin for more than 40 years. He received the gold medal for best online column from the Milwaukee Press Club in 2024, the year his book Moments of Happiness, a collaboration with legendary band leader Mike Leckrone, was published. Moe’s 2025 book Saving Hearts and Killing Rats was the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Wisconsin Book of the Month for April, and in August he published Forward for the People a collaboration with longtime Wisconsin State Sen. Fred Risser on Risser’s autobiography.
Lindsay Marie Morris is a Los Angeles–based novelist and journalist inspired by her Sicilian-American roots. Her debut, The Last Letter from Sicily (Storm Publishing, January 2025), and her follow-up, Beneath the Sicilian Stars (July 2025), explore love, resilience, and family secrets set against the backdrop of World War II. She also coaches writers and leads talks and workshops on personal storytelling and historical fiction.
Carrie Newberry is the author of the Eternal Spring, Invisible Forest series. A Madison dog groomer by day, Carrie is also a faculty member at AllWriters’ Workplace and Workshop, an international writing studio and community. She lives in Madison with two cats, one who is a potted plant serial killer, and another who spends the wee hours of the morning chirping louder than the birds.
Mary Ann Noe Upon retirement from teaching, Mary Ann Noe reinvented herself as an author who publishes novels, essays and poetry. She spends time reading anything she can get her hands on, writing, and baking (and eating the results). Happily enjoying their grandchildren, she and her husband reside in Wisconsin, where she watches with dismay as the deer eat the flowers in the garden. Learn more at www.maryannnoe.com.
Aaron Nodolf is an attorney at Michael Best with a strategic, business-focused approach to counseling clients. He specializes in counseling clients regarding intellectual property and facilitating transactions that help his clients structure and execute deals that drive innovation, protect assets, and deliver measurable results.
Molly Ramstack is a mentee of Mary Ann Noe.
Gregory Lee Renz is a Fire and Police Hall of Fame Fire Captain who is the author of two multi-award-winning novels set on the mean streets of Milwaukee. He is fearless on the page pressing on into fiery and controversial terrain where many other writers fear to tread.
Dean Robbins is a journalist who has contributed to USA Today, The New York Daily News, GRAMMY magazine, and other national media outlets, as well as serving as editor in chief of Isthmus and On Wisconsin magazine. He is also a children’s author whose books have appeared on many best-of-the-year lists, earning praise in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal. NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar calls his essay collection Wisconsin Idols “insightful and entertaining: a passionate and poetic homage.”
Todd Rosiak covers the Milwaukee Brewers and UW-Milwaukee basketball for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He was named the 2023 NSMA Wisconsin Sportswriter of the Year. He is the author of Bob Uecker: The Life and Career of the Milwaukee Brewers’ Legendary Broadcaster
Liesl Shurtliff is the New York Times bestselling author of the (Fairly) True Tales series, including Rump, which was awarded an ILA Children’s Book Award and named to over two dozen state award lists. Her latest series, the Time Castaways trilogy, is a family time-travel adventure with “quirky, retro-tinged entertainment.” (Kirkus) Liesl lives in Chicago. You can visit her at lieslshurtliff.com.
Cris Siqueira is co-owner of Lion’s Tooth Bookstore with her BFF Shelly McClone-Carriere, as well as a cartoonist and multimedia artist. She has been self-publishing zines since the 1990s.
Patricia Skalka is the author of the award-winning Dave Cubiak Door County mystery series, including Death Stalks Door County which USA Today calls “(an) evocative read…Wisconsin’s book.” A former President of Sisters in Crime Chicagoland, she is a member of both the Chicago Chapter and WisSINC, as well as Wisconsin Writers Association, and The Authors Guild of America. In 2024, Patricia was named a Notable Wisconsin Author by the Wisconsin Library Association. Learn more about her books at https://www.youtube.com/@DoorCountyMysterySeries.
Dawn Tefft has poems that have appeared in Bennington Review, Denver Quarterly, and Fence. Once Upon a Riot, her first full-length poetry book, came out through Match Factory Editions in June 2025. Her chapbooks include Gosling (Anhinga Press), Fist (Dancing Girl Press), and Field Trip to My Mother and Other Exotic Locations (Mudlark). She earned a PhD in English with a concentration in Creative Writing at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, volunteers as an editor for Packingtown Review, and works as a union representative in Chicago.
Scott Templeton arrived at UW–Madison as an undergraduate in 1990, two years after the founding of The Onion. He was an instant fan and began collecting issues. His original career plan was to become a foreign language teacher, but picked up some other skills along the way and, a month or two after graduating in 1994, managed to land the graphic design position at The Onion he held for 8½ years. The highlight of his time there was as art director and principal designer of The Onion’s first book, Our Dumb Century. Twenty-six years after its release it remains the design project he is most proud of.
Scott has two sons and now lives in a bonkers Frank Lloyd Wright–style home in the Kettle Moraine area of Waukesha County with his wife, two cats, and a dopey greyhound. He is working for the Wisconsin State Legislature currently but is perhaps as little as a month away from abandoning his life of graphic design to become a grants manager.
Rhea Thomas lives in Austin, Texas where she works as a program manager in the digital media world. Her short stories have been published in multiple publications, including, most recently, The Fictional Café, Toasted Cheese and Does It Have Pockets. She spends her free time hoarding books, walking her stubborn Labrador retriever, playing games with her sons, kayaking and swimming in rivers, searching for mysteries and writing short stories that explore magical moments in the mundane.
Jordan Treske is a Milwaukee-based author and has written and podcasted about the Milwaukee Bucks for a decade. He’s a co-host of the Win in 6 podcast alongside Adam McGee and you can find his work as part of the Gyro Step Podcast Network where they cover the Bucks, the Milwaukee Brewers and the Green Bay Packers as part of the Blue Wire Network.
Wendy Vardaman PhD, works as a web and digital media specialist. The author of four poetry collections, she served as Madison, Wisconsin poet laureate from 2012 to 2015 and volunteers as a graphic designer for poetry-related causes. Her most recent book, thread me an exit (2025), is available from Brain Mill Press. Her website is wendyvardaman.com.
Howard Veregin is a professional cartographer and writer. He received his PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has been a professor at Kent State University and the University of Minnesota, Director of Geographic Information Services at Rand McNally and Wisconsin State Cartographer. His works include maps and atlases, professional publications and non-fiction essays. He blogs about the unusual geography and history of Wisconsin. Dog 137 is his first novel.
Amy T. Waldman is the author of We Had Fun and Nobody Died: The Adventures of a Milwaukee Music Promoter, which received a Gold award from the Independent Book Publishers Association for biography/autobiography. Her articles, book and music reviews, and essays have appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee Magazine, the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, Publishers Weekly, People and Readers Digest, among others. When not at her day job as the happiest public librarian in North America or working on her next book, she is probably hanging out with her family or reading.
Tony Walter was a journalist for almost 40 years with the Green Bay Press-Gazette, serving as a reporter, editor and columnist in sports, law enforcement, politics and human interest. He was also on the prototype team for USA Today in 1980. He has published four books about the history of the Green Bay Packers. His newest book is War Year Champions: The Welcome Diversion of the 1944 Green Bay Packers
Christine Wenc grew up in rural Spring Green, WI and was a member of The Onion’s original staff from 1988 to 1990 as a UW-Madison undergrad. She has played central roles in highly regarded history projects for Harvard University Libraries, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the National Library of Medicine, and has received grants from the Awesome Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her day job is editing research grant proposals for the UW-Madison School of Education.
Matt Zembrowski is a Milwaukee-based playwright and composer, who grew up dreaming of pitching for his hometown Milwaukee Brewers. His lifelong love of Wisconsin sports led him to write and compose the musical Dad’s Season Tickets, which premiered at Northern Sky Theater in 2019, and has since been produced all over the state, including a near-sell out production at the Milwaukee Rep in 2022. He is also the writer/composer of the Waukesha-set musical Something in the Water, which premiered this past summer in Door County.
Kristian Zenz is an American author, poet, and spoken-word artist from West Allis, Wisconsin. He has published three works, the first being a novel titled 2050, and the other two being poetry collections titled Deadly Grievances and Vernacular Whirlwind. He enjoys writing in his free time.
