Mark Liebenow is the author of four books. His poems, essays, and reviews have been published or are forthcoming in such journals as Fifth Wednesday Journal, Colorado Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Crab Orchard Review, Swink, Disquieting Muses Quarterly, and Rain Taxi Review. Read more…
My name is Jerry Kiesow, my wife and I live in Grafton. For the majority of my life, I was employed in the printing industry. During those years I developed and operated a stock photo business and did a little Read more…
TED HERTEL, JR., a Wisconsin attorney, is a past president of MWA Midwest, serving for two years on its National Board. He co-chaired Bouchercon ’99 and was local arrangements chair for EyeCon ‘95, both in Milwaukee. His published writings include Read more…
Wendy Vardaman, wendyvardaman.com, is Poet Laureate (with Sarah Busse) of Madison, WI and co-editor/webmaster of Verse Wisconsin, versewisconsin.org, and Cowfeather Press, cowfeatherpress.org. She is the author of Obstructed View (Fireweed Press 2009) and co-editor of the 2013 Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar. Read more…
Bill Orth is an accomplished guitarist, bassist and vocalist who has been playing and performing for more than 40 years. He also composes music and has recorded one cd of original music with the band, annaranaway and another with Cathryn Read more…
Lisa Lickel is a Wisconsin writer who lives with her husband in a hundred and sixty-year-old house built by a Great Lakes ship captain. Surrounded by books and dragons, she writes inspiring fiction. Her published novels include mystery and romance, Read more…
Jacqueline “Jackie” Maggiore was raised in Appleton, WI, where she and Sister Carla (Carol Piette) became lifelong friends. A graduate of Marquette University, she earned an MSW degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She and her late husband Anthony raised Read more…
Tracey Devlyn writes historical romantic thrillers (translation: a slightly more grievousjourney toward the heroine’s happy ending). Tracey’s also co-founder of Romance University, a group blog dedicated to readers and writers of romance, and Lady Jane’s Salon-Naperville, Chicagoland’s exciting new reading salon devoted Read more…
Daniel P. Coughlin was born and raised in a small town in southern Wisconsin. At the age of 19 he joined the United States Marine Corps and served four and a half years as a Machinegunner in the infantry. After Read more…
Tawni O’Dell is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Fragile Beasts, Sister Mine, Coal Run, and Back Roads, which was an Oprah’s Book Club pick and a Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection. Her work has been published in Read more…