Orth, Bill
Bill Orth is an accomplished guitarist, bassist and vocalist who has been playing and performing for more than 40 years. He also composes music and has recorded one cd of original music with the band,…
Lickel,Lisa
Lisa Lickel is a Wisconsin writer who lives with her husband in a hundred and sixty-year-old house built by a Great Lakes ship captain. Surrounded by books and dragons, she writes inspiring fiction. Her published…
Maggiore, Jacqueline Hansen
Jacqueline “Jackie” Maggiore was raised in Appleton, WI, where she and Sister Carla (Carol Piette) became lifelong friends. A graduate of Marquette University, she earned an MSW degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She and…
Devlyn, Tracey
Tracey Devlyn writes historical romantic thrillers (translation: a slightly more grievousjourney toward the heroine’s happy ending). Tracey’s also co-founder of Romance University, a group blog dedicated to readers and writers of romance, and Lady Jane’s Salon-Naperville, Chicagoland’s…
Coughlin, Daniel P.
Daniel P. Coughlin was born and raised in a small town in southern Wisconsin. At the age of 19 he joined the United States Marine Corps and served four and a half years as a…
O’Dell, Tawni – Keynote Presenter
Tawni O’Dell is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Fragile Beasts, Sister Mine, Coal Run, and Back Roads, which was an Oprah’s Book Club pick and a Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection. Her…
Jacobson, Bob
Bob Jacobson is a writer and musician based in Madison, Wisconsin. His most recent publication Les Paul: Guitar Wizard tells the story of the “Wizard of Waukesha” who pioneered the solid body electric guitar, multi-track…
Rath, Sara
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…
McDowell, Holly
Holly McDowell lived in Colorado, Georgia and South Carolina before discovering the magical and inspiring city of Chicago. She can be spotted drinking glögg, searching for the world’s best tapas bar and writing in coffee shops all over the windy…
Cofell, Cathyrn
Cathryn Cofell’s poetry and essays have been published in hundreds of journals and anthologies, and appear in five books, most recently Kamikaze Commotion (Parallel Press). Her latest project is Lip, her poems to the music of Obvious…