Nicholas Michael Ravnikar teaches writing, reading and communication (but not necessarily in that order) at Gateway Technical College in Racine and Kaplan University in Milwaukee. In addition to facilitating a variety of non-profit arts workshops over the past nine years, he produced the feature-length documentary Quilts on Barns: The Beauty Read more…
Patrick Rothfuss published his first book, The Name of the Wind, in 2007. Since then the book has become a New York Times best seller, been praised by authors such as Ursula K LeGuin, and won various awards around the world. When he is not working on the sequel, The Read more…
Karen McQuestion’s essays have appeared in Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, Christian Science Monitor and several anthologies. She is the author of six books self-published on Amazon’s Kindle, one of which, the novel, A Scattered Life, caught the attention of an L.A. based production company and became the first self-published Read more…
As Senior Editorial Contributor for Publishers Weekly, Barbara Vey brings readers and writers together with her popular Beyond Her Book blog. From her entertaining “Drive By Videos” to reader feedback on books with WW Ladies Book Club, YA Saturday Book Club, Your Turn Friday, BHB continues to grow into a Read more…
Eva Augustin Rumpf is the author of the memoir Reclamation: Memories from a New Orleans Girlhood, the satiric novel Prot U and co-author of Til Divorce Do Us Part, a self-help book for women in troubled marriages. She has been a freelance writer for 35 years, publishing hundreds of newpaper Read more…
Dori Chaconas was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The second child in a family of seven, she fell into the role of storyteller, nursery rhyme singer, and general entertainer for her siblings. She claims she learned about story pacing early. If the story action lagged, her fidgety audience would either scatter Read more…
Milwaukee’s Next Door Foundation will be at the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books collecting new and gently used children’s books for their Books for Kids program. This program, founded in 1990, works through book drives like this one to increase literacy and academic success among Milwaukee’s central city children by getting Read more…
Mary Lou Santovec is a writer and editor living in Jefferson, Wisconsin. She has published articles in newspapers, newsletters and magazines on a variety of topics including higher education, community banking, lifestyles, health and gardening. She is the co-author of two books, 1,001 Commonly Misspelled Words: What Your Spell Checker Read more…
A graduate of Oberlin College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Kelly Dwyer has written two novels, The Tracks of Angels and Self-Portrait with Ghosts, both published by Penguin Putnam Inc., and two children’s books, Sophie’s Magical Windmill and The Dream Tree, published by ArchitectureKids. She has been awarded a Michener/Engle Read more…
Sharon Coyle is a storytime presenter/storyteller who loves seeing the excited faces of children when they are listening to a tale. She has been doing storytime programs since 2003 at coffee houses, libraries, day care centers, Toys-R-Us and Babies-R-Us and currently at the Children’s Play Gallery in Delafield. She also Read more…