Profiles of participating authors in the Festival of Books.
Jeanette Hurt is an award-winning author and writer who specializes in writing about food, wine and travel. Her latest book is The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Sausage Making, and she also is the author of The Cheeses of Wisconsin: A Culinary Travel Guide, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Wine and Read more…
David Carter attended college at Emory University, where he majored in religion while also taking many French courses. He received his MA in South Asian Studies from the University of Wisconsin. Soon after moving to Wisconsin, he became a gay activist. Carter is the founder of the Madison Committee for Gay Read more…
Andrew M. Mclean, rare books expert and professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, has taught classes on the history of printing & book collecting, and owned Martha Merrell’s Bookstore in Racine (WI). He has served as an appraiser and consultant to rare book librarians & archivists, appraising donations given Read more…
The Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books is pleased to announce Tawni O’Dell as its 2012 Keynote Speaker. O’Dell will give the keynote address at 6 p.m. Friday, June 15. O’Dell’s remarks will be followed by an interview with Jean Feraca, long-time host of Wisconsin Public Radio’s “Here On Earth.” O’Dell Read more…
G. K. Wuori is the author of over a hundred stories published throughout the world in the U.S., Japan, India, Germany, Spain, Algeria, Ireland, and Brazil. A Pushcart Prize winner and recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, his work has appeared in such journals as The Gettysburg Review, The Read more…
B.J. Best holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Hanging Loose, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Mid-American Review, Nimrod, North American Review, Quarterly West, and Sentence. His is the author of State Sonnets (sunnyoutside, 2009), as well as Birds of Wisconsin (New Read more…
Kim Wilson is a writer, speaker, editor, gardening enthusiast, and a life member of the Jane Austen Society of North America. She lives in Waukesha, Wisconsin, with her husband and their two daughters, whom she is bringing up to love all things Austen. She is the author of In the Garden Read more…
Dr. Walter Sava is the Executive Director of Latino Arts, Inc. (Milwaukee, WI). His previous experience includes six years serving as Executive Director of La Casa de Esperanza, Inc. in Waukesha, Wisconsin, General Supervisor of Community Services for Wisconsin Electric Power Company and Executive Director of Centro de la Read more…
Angela Maycock serves as Assistant Director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom at the American Library Association. She provides guidance and support to librarians, teachers, and others on the application of ALA’s intellectual freedom policies and the First Amendment in situations involving challenges to materials and services in the library. Read more…
Angela Sorby received her PhD from the University of Chicago and is currently Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Marquette University. She is the author of three books, Distance Learning (poems, New Issues Press, 1998); Schoolroom Poets (criticism, UPNE, 2005); and Bird Skin Coat (poems, U of Read more…