M. Scott Douglass is the Publisher and Managing Editor of Main Street Rag Publishing Company founded in 1996 ( North Carolina). His poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and he was the recipient of a NC Arts & Science Emerging Artists Grant in 2001. His work has appeared Read more…
Michael Gordon is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He teaches courses in American Labor History, the History of Wisconsin, the 1950s, and local history, and serves as the Co-Coordinator of the department’s Public History Program, which helps prepare History graduate students for careers in museums and Read more…
Timothy Thering is an Associate Professor of History at UW-Waukesha. Professor Timothy Thering hosts Paul Buhle, retired lecturer from Brown University, Professor Michael Gordon of UW-Milwaukee and labor cartoonist Mike Konopacki for Beer, Cheese, Brats, Unions: Wisconsin Labor History Then & Now an exploration of the significant role Wisconsin workers Read more…
Janet LaBrie is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department at UW-Waukesha. She will be appearing at the Festival with colleagues Margaret Rozga and Elizabeth Zanichkowsky to discuss the special topic Recovering Women’s Voices. This panel will present a discussion of an inclusive range of more established writers and talk Read more…
Elizabeth Zanichkowsky is an Associate Professor of English at UW-Waukesha. She will be appearing at the Festival with colleagues Margaret Rozga and Janet LaBrie to discuss the special topic Recovering Women’s Voices. This panel will present a discussion of an inclusive range of more established writers and talk about how each serves Read more…
Debut author Jessie Chandler is the Vice President of the Twin Cities chapter of Sisters in Crime. She runs a Lesbian Fiction book group at True Colors Bookstore, an independent, feminist-themed bookshop in the Twin Cities, and occasionally works at a Borders Bookstore in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. In her spare Read more…
Somchintana is a native Thai anthropologist and business manager. She received her graduate degrees in Medical Anthropology and Business Management in the United States. In both fields, her geographical area of specialty is Southeast Asia. Somchintana taught Medical Anthropology and Linguistic Anthropology at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. She also Read more…
Benjamin LeRoy is the Publisher of Tyrus Books, an independent press known for its crime and dark literary fiction. Before starting Tyrus Books in the summer of 2009, he was a founder and Publisher of Bleak House Books. In 2008, Publishers Weekly selected LeRoy as part of their “Fifty Under Read more…
Michael A. Black graduated from Columbia College, Chicago in 2000 with a Master of Fine Arts degree in Fiction Writing. He previously earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Northern Illinois Univeristy. Despite his literary leanings, he has often said that police work has been his life. A Read more…
William W. Vought has numerous screenwriting credit to his name and has worked in television, film and indie films. his resume also includes significant work in the theatre. TELEVISION credits include: Staff Writer for the CBS drama series CITY OF ANGELS, created and executive produced by Steven Bochco; Created, penned Read more…