Lisa Rondinelli Albert grew up in Milwaukee where she spent countless hours at Finney Library. Lisa’s most recent nonfiction book, Stephenie Meyer: Author of the Twilight Saga (Enslow 2009), is the very first biography of Stephenie Meyer. Her other books with Enslow include, Lois Lowry: The Giver of Stories and Read more…
Ann Angel has written many young adult biographies including the forthcoming Janis Joplin, Rise Up Singing (Abrams 2010). She served as contributing editor for the highly acclaimed Such a Pretty Face, Short Stories About Beauty and is currently working with her daughter, Amanda Angel, to edit a series of essays Read more…
A creative writing major in college, Ann worked as a bartender, a horse show groom and a professional window washer before publishing her first romantic suspense novel in 2000 with Harlequin Intrigue. Since then, she has published twenty-one novels and garnered many award nominations and wins. Her titles for Intrigue include Christmas Read more…
Michael Giorgio got his start in writing in what many consider a dead, or at least a lost, art: Radio Drama. His first work won a national scriptwriting contest and a love of writing was born. Since then, he has had over a dozen audio scripts produced in Newark, Los Read more…
Doris Green is a communications specialist with the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has published Wisconsin Community Banking News magazine for the Community Bankers of Wisconsin since 1997. She has more than twenty years of previous experience in publishing and public relations for nonprofit, for-profit, Read more…
The Junior Library Guild has selected Fern Schumer Chapman’s new book, Is It Night or Day? (March 2010), as a spring title. In a starred review, Booklist called the work ”powerful and eloquent,” adding, ”as with the best writing, the specifics about life as a young immigrant are universal.” A Read more…
Paul Salsini is a veteran Milwaukee journalist, having been a reporter, state editor and staff development director at The Milwaukee Journal. He now teaches writing courses in the Diederich College of Communication at Marquette University. He was the Wisconsin correspondent for The New York Times for twenty years and his Read more…
For many years Carol has illustrated for a wide variety of magazines, newspapers, advertising, and text and trade books for children. Her work has appeared in over 45 picture books. In 1991, her illustrations first appeared in the children’s book, Sea Squares by Joy Hulme which was selected as an Read more…
Mike Konopacki is a political/labor cartoonist living in Madison, Wisconsin. He began labor cartooning for the Madison Press Connection, a local daily created by striking newspaper workers in 1978. After the paper folded in 1980, Mike began syndicating his labor cartoons through the labor news service, Press Associates, Inc. In Read more…
Bob Anderson is a retired Wisconsin Librarian who after 39 years is free to pursue his favorite hobby, the teaching of Cartooning, whenever the spirit moves him. A regular teacher at the Kenosha Public Museum in the adult and kids class and workshop offerings, he has also taught Cartooning at Read more…