Presenters for 2010 programs
Amelia Klem Osterud is an academic librarian from Milwaukee who is working diligently on becoming heavily tattooed, just in case she ever wants a second career as a tattooed lady. Osterud has a master’s degree in history from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and writes and lectures on the subject of Read more
Fabu Carter Brisco is Madison’s 3rd Poet Laureate. Her poetry focuses on children, women, and African Americans. Poems, Dreams and Roses, a compilation of poetry about Fabu’s growing up as a poet is aimed at encouraging young poets and was published in December 2009. In Our Own Tongues will be Read more
Kashmira Sheth was born and raised in India and came to the United States to attend college. After receiving her BS from the Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa and MS in bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she worked for the Wisconsin Agriculture Department for 15 years. About twelve Read more
Kimberly Pauley loves a good book you can sink your teeth into. Sucks to Be Me: The All-True Confessions of Mina Hamilton, Teen Vampire (maybe), a comic coming of age vampire story, was her first novel. She majored in English at the University of Florida and took as many classes Read more
Maribeth Fischer’s first novel, The Language of Goodbye, was awarded Virginia Commonwealth University’s First Novel Award for 2002. Fischer’s second novel, The Life You Longed For, chosen as an April 2007 BookSense Notable Book, as well as a alternate book selection the Literary Guild, was cited by The Library Journal Read more
Bonnie Leick (pronunciation: like) grew up on a dairy farm in Central Wisconsin where as a child, she spent her summers picking rocks in the fields and baling hay. Year-round she was a “Calf Care Specialist”; i.e., she fed calves. Bonnie’s artwork has sometimes been defined as quirky and humorous. Read more
THE POETRY PEOPLE first met as students of poetry, writing and workshopping at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha under the careful eye of Dr. Phil Zweifel. In 1997, the classmates decided to share their work with others and formed as The Poetry People. Their first public reading was hosted by Martha Merrell’s Bookstore Read more
Kathi is a graduate of the Vermont College MFA Program in Writing for Children and Young Adults. In addition to writing, she works part-time as an occupational therapist. In the past, she has worked with teens in crisis and has publications in a variety of occupational therapy journals and books. Read more
Tom Montag is a middlewestern poet and essayist who is interested in place, the way place shapes us, and the way we are shaped by it. Curlew: Home is his memoir of growing up on an Iowa farm. The Idea of the Local is his collection of essays about people Read more
Lori Handeland has written nearly fifty novels, novellas and short stories in several genres–historical, contemporary, series and paranormal romance, as well as urban fantasy–for such publishers as: Dorchester, Kensington, Harlequin, St. Martin’s Press, Harper-Collins and Simon and Schuster. She is a New York Times, USA Today, Waldenbooks and Bookscan Bestselling Read more