Michael is the author of three critically acclaimed crime novels, The Chicago Way, The Fifth Floor and The Third Rail. His fourth novel, We All Fall Down, will be published by Knopf in the summer of 2011. Michael is also a documentary producer and co-creator, producer and executive producer of A&E’s Read more…
Dr. Craig W. Hurst has been a member of the UW-Waukesha faculty since January 1993. In addition to his teaching duties, he also serves as Chair of the UW Colleges Music Department. Hurst enjoys music of all genres, reading, cooking, bird watching, and professional football and baseball.
Dr. Phil Zweifel began teaching English at UW-Waukesha in 1976, and since 1995 he has also served as Associate Campus Dean. His special interests include poetry, creative writing, the works of Mark Twain, golf, and the music of Bob Dylan.
Susan Masino is the author of Let There Be Rock -The Story of AC/DC, which is now published in ten languages. Susan has been a rock journalist for over thirty years. She also teaches a continuing education program on the History of Rock and Roll for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Read more…
Teen author Markelle Grabo took to reading at an early age, spending countless hours devouring book after book. In fifth grade, she decided that she wanted to be like the authors she favored and tell her own stories. An avid lover of fantasy, she typed out idea after idea, however, Read more…
Colleen Houck’s debut novel Tiger’s Curse received literary praise and digital success before being published by Splinter in January 2011. Her self-published eBook claimed the #1 spot on Kindle’s children’s best-seller list for seven weeks and was a 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Award in YA Fiction. Colleen lives in Read more…
Robin L. Flanigan is an award-winning freelance writer whose work has appeared internationally. She lives with her husband and daughter in Rochester, New York, where she finds peace in practicing her personal mantra: Know what you want. Work hard to get it. Accept what comes next. (www.thekineticpen.com)
Amaud Jamaul Johnson’s first collection of poetry, Red Summer (Tupelo 2006), was selected by Carl Phillips as winner of the 2005 Dorset Prize. Educated at Howard University and Cornell University, his honors include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, a Robert Frost Fellowship at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Read more…
Ilsa J. Bick is child/adolescent and forensic psychiatrist, film scholar, surgeon wannabe, former Air Force major—and an award-winning, best-selling author of short stories, e-books and novels. Her first published story, “A Ribbon for Rosie,” was also the Grand Prize winner in the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds competition in 1998; Read more…
Wisconsin Public Radio’s Distinguished Senior Broadcaster, is host and executive producer of Here on Earth: Radio without Borders. Feraca has received several honors including the Nation’s Discovery Award and two Hopwood Awards. Recipient of an Ohio State and Gabriel Award for her Women of Spirit radio series on female leaders Read more…