Robin Chapman is author of six books of poetry, including a collaboration with the fractals images and explanations of physicist J.C. Sprott in Images of a Complex World: The Art and Poetry of Chaos, winner of the Posner Poetry Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers; The Dreamer Who Counted Read more…
The 2011 Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books will feature two interactive reading programs — one for fiction and one for poetry — in which audience members get to do even more than ask some questions. They create the program. Modeled on Robert Pinsky’s Favorite Poem Project, Impact! Fiction and Impact! Read more…
During a 40-year journalism career, Hofmann has covered every major Wisconsin sport as well as numerous national and international events ranging from the Olympics and the Super Bowl to the Final Four, the World Series and the US Open golf tournament. He was a Green Bay Packers and Milwaukee Bucks Read more…
Agatha, Anthony and Macavity winning investigative reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan is on the air at Boston’s NBC affiliate. She’s won 26 EMMYs and dozens of other journalism honors. Her debut, PRIME TIME, won the Agatha. FACE TIME is a BookSense Notable Book; AIR TIME an AGATHA and ANTHONY nominee. Her latest, Read more…
David Thome has written 20 screenplays. Four of them were optioned by companies in Hollywood and elsewhere–one of them twice–without his ever moving from Wisconsin. Past President of the Wisconsin Screenwriters Forum, recognitions include scripts which reached the semifinals of the Slamdance Screenplay Competition and the Maui Screenwriting award. Read more…
Fred Schepartz writes science fiction, fantasy and horror. He has one published novel, Vampire Cabbie. He recently completed his next novel, Guitar God and just started yet another, Solidarity Moon. Fred also publishes and edits Mobius: The Journal of Social Change.
Matt M McElroy is the Publishing & marketing Manager forDriveThruFiction.com and other eBook websites. He has several years experience working in publishing of Games, Comics and Fiction and applies that to his work in these “wild west” days of eBook sales and distribution. Matt is also the owner and “Editor-in-Chief” Read more…
John Klima previously worked at Asimov’s, Analog, and Tor Books before returning to school to earn his Master’s in Library and Information Science. He now works full time as a librarian. When he is not conquering the world of indexing, John edits and publishes the Hugo Award-winning genre zine Electric Read more…
Swati Avasthi has a BA from The University of Chicago and an MFA from The University of Minnesota. Her first novel, SPLIT, received the International Reading Association’s Young Adult Award, a CYBILS Award, and a Silver Parent’s Choice Award. It was included on YALSA’s a Best Fiction for Young Adults Read more…
RAYMOND BENSON is the author of 25 published books. He wrote six original James Bond novels, three film novelizations, and three short stories—all published worldwide. Three 007 titles each are collected in the recent anthologies CHOICE OF WEAPONS and THE UNION TRILOGY. His series of “rock ‘n’ roll thrillers” include DARK SIDE OF Read more…