Brenda Cárdenas is the 2010-2012 Poet Laureate of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her collection of poetry Boomerang was published by Bilingual Review Press in 2009, and her chapbook From the Tongues of Brick and Stone by Momotombo Press (Institute for Latino/a Studies) in 2005. She also co-edited Between the Heart and the Read more…
Karl Gartung grew up in Liberal, Kansas (an actual place and a real contradiction). Thirty years ago he founded Woodland Pattern Book Center with Anne Kingsbury and Karl Young. Fortunately, that center continues as an outlet for new literature, art and music, a point of contact for the writers of Read more…
Carol Fisher Saller is the author of The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships With Your Writers, Your Colleagues and Yourself) as well as several books for children. She is a senior manuscript editor and assistant managing editor at University of Chicago Press and Read more…
Twenty-odd years after she edited the yearbook at Catholic Memorial High School in Waukesha, Mary E. Laur is a member of the editorial team that produces the iconic Chicago Manual of Style (soon to be published in its 16th edition). Although her official title at the University of Chicago Press Read more…
Raised in what was then a small Wisconsin farming community Allan did not see a real library until he was forced onto a bus to attend high school. There he found Holmes and Christie. After a successful career in business ownership he returns to spread imagination and humor to the Read more…
Jeff Poniewaz received a B.A. and M.A. in English from UW-Milwaukee, where since 1989 he’s taught “Literature of Ecological Vision,” a course he devised. His eco-activism spans from local urban greenspace struggles to the global rainforest crisis. Since his first published poems appeared in Kaleidoscope and Beloit Poetry Journal in 1968, Read more…
Co-authors Kathryn Heling and Deborah Hembrook have been writing collaboratively since 1997. Both work in the School District of Waukesha, Kathryn as a school psychologist and Deborah as a Kindergarten teacher. Their experiences with young children often provide the source for their story ideas, and many of their books contain Read more…
Co-authors Kathryn Heling and Deborah Hembrook have been writing collaboratively since 1997. Both work in the School District of Waukesha, Kathryn as a school psychologist and Deborah as a Kindergarten teacher. Their experiences with young children often provide the source for their story ideas, and many of their books contain Read more…
Gibbs Davis is an award-winning author of 24 books for children, as well as co-writer of the film Undercover Kids. In 2008 and 2009 Gibbs co-hosted the Reading Discovery Program with former First Lady Barbara Bush at the George Bush Presidential Library. During these successful televised events Mrs. Bush read Read more…
STEPHANIE LOWDEN is a gardener, substitute teacher and amateur historian. She’s been writing since the age of 6 (her first manuscript was a note she left for her mother) and dabbling in history since college days. The theme of loss informs much of her fiction. This is assuredly because her father Read more…