Antler’s epic poem Factory was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti in the City Lights Pocket Poet Series in 1980. Antler’s book Last Words was published by Ballantine in 1986. Antler: The Selected Poems was published in 2000. Allen Ginsberg called Antler “one of Whitman’s ‘poets and orators to come’.” Antler won Read more…
Amy Laundrie has been an elementary teacher in Wisconsin Dells for many years. She loves nature and animals and hatches out ducklings every spring. Last year the duckling “Happy Feet” even accompanied her on school visits. “Meet the author” presentations and conducting writing workshops are Amy’s specialties. Amy’s the author Read more…
Amelia Klem Osterud is an academic librarian from Milwaukee who is working diligently on becoming heavily tattooed, just in case she ever wants a second career as a tattooed lady. Osterud has a master’s degree in history from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and writes and lectures on the subject of Read more…
Fabu Carter Brisco is Madison’s 3rd Poet Laureate. Her poetry focuses on children, women, and African Americans. Poems, Dreams and Roses, a compilation of poetry about Fabu’s growing up as a poet is aimed at encouraging young poets and was published in December 2009. In Our Own Tongues will be Read more…
Kashmira Sheth was born and raised in India and came to the United States to attend college. After receiving her BS from the Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa and MS in bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she worked for the Wisconsin Agriculture Department for 15 years. About twelve Read more…
Kimberly Pauley loves a good book you can sink your teeth into. Sucks to Be Me: The All-True Confessions of Mina Hamilton, Teen Vampire (maybe), a comic coming of age vampire story, was her first novel. She majored in English at the University of Florida and took as many classes Read more…
Maribeth Fischer’s first novel, The Language of Goodbye, was awarded Virginia Commonwealth University’s First Novel Award for 2002. Fischer’s second novel, The Life You Longed For, chosen as an April 2007 BookSense Notable Book, as well as a alternate book selection the Literary Guild, was cited by The Library Journal Read more…
Bonnie Leick (pronunciation: like) grew up on a dairy farm in Central Wisconsin where as a child, she spent her summers picking rocks in the fields and baling hay. Year-round she was a “Calf Care Specialist”; i.e., she fed calves. Bonnie’s artwork has sometimes been defined as quirky and humorous. Read more…
THE POETRY PEOPLE first met as students of poetry, writing and workshopping at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha under the careful eye of Dr. Phil Zweifel. In 1997, the classmates decided to share their work with others and formed as The Poetry People. Their first public reading was hosted by Martha Merrell’s Bookstore Read more…
Kathi is a graduate of the Vermont College MFA Program in Writing for Children and Young Adults. In addition to writing, she works part-time as an occupational therapist. In the past, she has worked with teens in crisis and has publications in a variety of occupational therapy journals and books. Read more…