2010 Authors
Presenters for 2010 programs
2010 Authors
2011 Program Features…You!
The 2011 Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books will feature two interactive reading programs — one for fiction and one for poetry — in which audience members get to do even more than ask some questions. They create the program. Modeled on Robert Pinsky’s Favorite Poem Project, Impact! Fiction and Impact! Read more…
2011 Authors
McElroy, Matt
Matt M McElroy is the Publishing & marketing Manager forDriveThruFiction.com and other eBook websites. He has several years experience working in publishing of Games, Comics and Fiction and applies that to his work in these “wild west” days of eBook sales and distribution. Matt is also the owner and “Editor-in-Chief” Read more…
2011 Authors
Bledsoe, Alex
Alex Bledsoe grew up in West Tennessee an hour north of Graceland (home of Elvis) and twenty minutes from Nutbush (birthplace of Tina Turner). He now lives in a century-old yellow house in a Wisconsin town famous for trolls. His books include The Hum and the Shiver, Dark Jenny, Burn Me Read more…
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Lukasik, Gail
Gail Lukasik is a published poet and novelist. Lisel Mueller described her book of poems, Landscape Toward a Proper Silence, as a “splendid collection.” In 2002 she was awarded an Illinois Arts Council award for her poetry. She writes the Leigh Girard mystery series. Kirkus Reviews described the second book Read more…
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Authors To Be Honored By Council of Wisconsin Writers
Authors Ann Angel and Jacqueline Houtman will be honored at the prestigious Council for Wisconsin Writers Awards Luncheon on May 14 at the Wisconsin Club in Milwaukee. The awards honor works published in 2010. Additional details are available on the Council’s website, www.wisconsinwriters.org. Ann Angel of Brookfield will receive the Read more…
2010 Authors
The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia Earns 2011 Anisfield-Wolf Award
Mary Helen Stefaniak’s second novel, The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia (W. W. Norton), has been awarded a 2011 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction. The Anisfield-Wolf awards “recognize books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and our appreciation of the rich diversity of human cultures.” Juror Rita Dove described Read more…
2011 Authors
Lourey, Jess
Jess Lourey is the author of the Lefty-nominated Murder-by-Month mysteries set in Battle Lake, Minnesota, and featuring amateur sleuth, Mira James. November Hunt, the seventh in the series, hit shelves March 2012. In a starred review, Booklist says, “It’s not easy to make people laugh while they’re on the edge Read more…
2011 Authors
Angel, Ann
Ann Angel, a writer, editor and professor in the graduate program in writing at Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, focuses her work on family and young adult sensibilities and issues. Her critically acclaimed young adult biography, Janis Joplin:Rise Up Singing, was awarded the 2011 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award by the Read more…
2010 Authors
Mitchard, Jacquelyn
Jacquelyn Mitchard is the author of the number one New York Times bestselling novel, The Deep End of the Ocean — chosen as the first book for Oprah Winfrey’s Book Club and named by USA Today in 2007 as one of the most influential books of the past 25 years, Read more…