Fabu Carter Brisco is Madison’s 3rd Poet Laureate. Her poetry focuses on children, women, and African Americans. Poems, Dreams and Roses, a compilation of poetry about Fabu’s growing up as a poet is aimed at encouraging young poets and was published in December 2009. In Our Own Tongues will be published by The University of Nairobi Press, Nairobi Kenya in 2010 and African-American Life in Haiku will be published by Parallel Press in 2011. Fabu has been published in Callallo, Southern Women’s Review, Verse Wisconsin and many other Wisconsin and Southern publications.
2025 Author Biographies
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 Read more
