A. Manette Ansay
A. Manette Ansay grew up in Wisconsin among 67 cousins and over 200 second cousins. She is the author of six novels, including Good Things I Wish You (July, 2009) and Vinegar Hill, an Oprah Book…
Sattersten, Todd
Todd Sattersten is the co-author of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time (Portfolio, 2009). He developed this project while working at 800-CEO-READ, where he was most recently President of the Milwaukee-based business book retailer. This…
Buehler, Luisa
Luisa Buehler writes the Grace Marsden Mystery Series. Reviewers have called her series “a cold-case-sizzle”. The stories follow the cold trail of bygone crimes using a blending of a traditional whodunit with a hint of…
Hellmann, Libby Fischer
Libby Fischer Hellmann’s 6th novel, DOUBLEBACK, a thriller, was released in October, 2009, by Bleak House Books. In it PI Georgia Davis is paired with video producer and single mother Ellie Foreman, the protagonist of…
Martin, Philip
Philip Martin is a Milwaukee-based and award-winning book author, editor, and indie-press publisher. Previously acquisitions editor for The Writer Books (connected with The Writer magazine), he now directs Great Lake Literary, offering support services for…
Rath, Sara
SARA RATH is a versatile, award-winning author with over a dozen books in a variety of genres, including four volumes of poetry, seven nonfiction books (including three biographies) and is currently writing her third novel. Critics…
Chard, Philip
Philip Chard is President & CEO of NEAS, Inc., a global EAP, Work/Life and behavioral solutions firm serving over 300 companies representing 1.9 million lives. He writes an award-winning weekly column in the MILWAUKEE JOURNAL…
Baker, Deb
Wisconsin author Deb Baker has written two mystery series. The Dolls To Die For series features a Phoenix, Arizona doll collecting club and member Gretchen Birch, who solves murders with her new age Aunt Nina…
Cardenas, Brenda
Brenda Cárdenas is the 2010-2012 Poet Laureate of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her collection of poetry Boomerang was published by Bilingual Review Press in 2009, and her chapbook From the Tongues of Brick and Stone by Momotombo…
Gartung, Karl
Karl Gartung grew up in Liberal, Kansas (an actual place and a real contradiction). Thirty years ago he founded Woodland Pattern Book Center with Anne Kingsbury and Karl Young. Fortunately, that center continues as an…