Profiles of participating authors in the Festival of Books.
Dr. Phil Zweifel began teaching English at UW-Waukesha in 1976, and since 1995 he has also served as Associate Campus Dean. His special interests include poetry, creative writing, the works of Mark Twain, golf, and the music of Bob Dylan.
Susan Masino is the author of Let There Be Rock -The Story of AC/DC, which is now published in ten languages. Susan has been a rock journalist for over thirty years. She also teaches a continuing education program on the History of Rock and Roll for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Read more…
Teen author Markelle Grabo took to reading at an early age, spending countless hours devouring book after book. In fifth grade, she decided that she wanted to be like the authors she favored and tell her own stories. An avid lover of fantasy, she typed out idea after idea, however, Read more…
Colleen Houck’s debut novel Tiger’s Curse received literary praise and digital success before being published by Splinter in January 2011. Her self-published eBook claimed the #1 spot on Kindle’s children’s best-seller list for seven weeks and was a 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Award in YA Fiction. Colleen lives in Read more…
Robin L. Flanigan is an award-winning freelance writer whose work has appeared internationally. She lives with her husband and daughter in Rochester, New York, where she finds peace in practicing her personal mantra: Know what you want. Work hard to get it. Accept what comes next. (www.thekineticpen.com)
Amaud Jamaul Johnson’s first collection of poetry, Red Summer (Tupelo 2006), was selected by Carl Phillips as winner of the 2005 Dorset Prize. Educated at Howard University and Cornell University, his honors include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, a Robert Frost Fellowship at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Read more…
Ilsa J. Bick is child/adolescent and forensic psychiatrist, film scholar, surgeon wannabe, former Air Force major—and an award-winning, best-selling author of short stories, e-books and novels. Her first published story, “A Ribbon for Rosie,” was also the Grand Prize winner in the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds competition in 1998; Read more…
Wisconsin Public Radio’s Distinguished Senior Broadcaster, is host and executive producer of Here on Earth: Radio without Borders. Feraca has received several honors including the Nation’s Discovery Award and two Hopwood Awards. Recipient of an Ohio State and Gabriel Award for her Women of Spirit radio series on female leaders Read more…
Michael Leannah is a teacher in the Sheboygan (Wisconsin) public schools and a writer. His children’s fiction has appeared in magazines in the United States (see the May, 2011 edition of Highlights for Children) and Australia. His history of a Wisconsin department store chain is to be published by the Read more…
Laura Fitzgerald is a Wisconsin native who now lives in Arizona. She is the best-selling author of three novels: Veil of Roses, One True Theory of Love, and, most recently, Dreaming In English. Fiztgerald grew up in Wauwatosa, attended Divine Savior Holy Angels High School, and received her undergraduate degree Read more…