Lynne Austin lives in Waukesha, Wisconsin, with her husband and four grown children. Lynne draws from her experiences as a registered nurse, holistic practitioner, and spiritual teacher. As her clients have reached out to her, looking for answers in life, she realized that we are all seekers, no matter what age. Read more…
Paul Buhle, retired Senior Lecturer at Brown University, now living in Madison, Wisconsin, is author or editor of forty-one volumes including nine comic art books. He is a frequent collaborator with Harvey Pekar, and their two most recent volumes are THE BEATS and STUDS TERKEL’S WORKING: A GRAPHIC ADAPTATION. He Read more…
WENDY VARDAMAN, www.wendyvardaman.com, lives in Madison, Wisconsin and is the author of Obstructed View (Fireweed Press). She works for The Young Shakespeare Players, a children’s theater company, co-edits Verse Wisconsin, www.versewisconsin.org, and does not own a car.
In November 2008, following a highly competitive application process, Governor James Doyle appointed Marilyn L. Taylor as Poet Laureate for the State of Wisconsin. Previously she served a two-year term as Poet Laureate of the city of Milwaukee. Even before her latest honor she was in high demand to lead Read more…
John Lehman is the founder and original publisher of Rosebud, a national magazine of short stories, poetry and illustration for people who enjoy good writing. He is the poetry editor of the Wisconsin People & Ideas as well as managing partner of Zelda Wilde Publishing and—with editors Andrea Musher and Read more…
Scott Zieher is co-owner of the New York City contemporary art gallery ZieherSmith (est. 2003). He was the winner of the Emergency Press 2004 annual contest for his book-length poem, VIRGA, published in 2005. His second book-length poem, IMPATIENCE was also published by Emergency Press in September, 2009. A book Read more…