Michael Giorgio got his start in writing in what many consider a dead, or at least a lost, art: Radio Drama. His first work won a national scriptwriting contest and a love of writing was born. Since then, he has Read more…
Doris Green is a communications specialist with the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has published Wisconsin Community Banking News magazine for the Community Bankers of Wisconsin since 1997. She has more than twenty years of Read more…
The Junior Library Guild has selected Fern Schumer Chapman’s new book, Is It Night or Day? (March 2010), as a spring title. In a starred review, Booklist called the work ”powerful and eloquent,” adding, ”as with the best writing, the Read more…
Paul Salsini is a veteran Milwaukee journalist, having been a reporter, state editor and staff development director at The Milwaukee Journal. He now teaches writing courses in the Diederich College of Communication at Marquette University. He was the Wisconsin correspondent Read more…
For many years Carol has illustrated for a wide variety of magazines, newspapers, advertising, and text and trade books for children. Her work has appeared in over 45 picture books. In 1991, her illustrations first appeared in the children’s book, Read more…
Mike Konopacki is a political/labor cartoonist living in Madison, Wisconsin. He began labor cartooning for the Madison Press Connection, a local daily created by striking newspaper workers in 1978. After the paper folded in 1980, Mike began syndicating his labor Read more…
Bob Anderson is a retired Wisconsin Librarian who after 39 years is free to pursue his favorite hobby, the teaching of Cartooning, whenever the spirit moves him. A regular teacher at the Kenosha Public Museum in the adult and kids Read more…
At heart, Peef and Lo (aka Paul and Lori Fredrich) are just two devoted Milwaukeeans who share a passion for seasonal cooking, local eating, and fantastic entertaining. They haunt farmer’s markets in the summer, and befriend local farmers, restaurateurs, and Read more…
Ilona Fridl was born in Southern California and came to live in Wisconsin in 1971. She took creative writing in college, but never took her dream anywhere until her husband, Mark, bought their first computer in 1995. Then she has Read more…
C.J. Hribal is the author of the novels The Company Car, which received the Anne Powers Book Award, and American Beauty, and of the short fiction collections Matty’s Heart and The Clouds in Memphis, which won the AWP Award for Read more…