Lynne Diebel and Pat Dillon are independent writers. Dillon formerly wrote a regional travel colum and worked in advertising in Milwaukee and Chicago. Diebel previously taught English at Stoughton High School and is coauthor of ABCs Naturally, Paddling Northern Minnesota Read more…
Pat Dillon and Lynne Diebel are independent writers. Dillon formerly wrote a regional travel colum and worked in advertising in Milwaukee and Chicago. Diebel previously taught English at Stoughton High School and is coauthor of ABCs Naturally, Paddling Northern Minnesota Read more…
Sarah C. Lange has been a magazine editor for 10 years, most recently at The Writer, which is dedicated to dispensing advice and inspiration for writers at every level. The magazine, owned by Kalmbach Publishing Co. in Waukesha, covers the Read more…
Paula Anderson publishes Echoes, a small press hand-stitched semi-annual poetry journal. Her publishing company Durnford’s Landing has published Idlewild by Ann Arntson, also Aubade and In the First Place by Judy Kolosso. Paula’s own poems have appeared in Icarus International, Read more…
M. Scott Douglass is the Publisher and Managing Editor of Main Street Rag Publishing Company founded in 1996 ( North Carolina). His poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and he was the recipient of a NC Arts & Read more…
Michael Gordon is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He teaches courses in American Labor History, the History of Wisconsin, the 1950s, and local history, and serves as the Co-Coordinator of the department’s Public History Program, which Read more…
Timothy Thering is an Associate Professor of History at UW-Waukesha. Professor Timothy Thering hosts Paul Buhle, retired lecturer from Brown University, Professor Michael Gordon of UW-Milwaukee and labor cartoonist Mike Konopacki for Beer, Cheese, Brats, Unions: Wisconsin Labor History Then Read more…
Janet LaBrie is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department at UW-Waukesha. She will be appearing at the Festival with colleagues Margaret Rozga and Elizabeth Zanichkowsky to discuss the special topic Recovering Women’s Voices. This panel will present a discussion Read more…
Elizabeth Zanichkowsky is an Associate Professor of English at UW-Waukesha. She will be appearing at the Festival with colleagues Margaret Rozga and Janet LaBrie to discuss the special topic Recovering Women’s Voices. This panel will present a discussion of an inclusive range Read more…
Debut author Jessie Chandler is the Vice President of the Twin Cities chapter of Sisters in Crime. She runs a Lesbian Fiction book group at True Colors Bookstore, an independent, feminist-themed bookshop in the Twin Cities, and occasionally works at a Read more…