Profiles of participating authors in the Festival of Books.
The Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books is pleased to announce the 2012 Century Fence Middle School & High School Student Essay Contest. Hosted and administered by the Festival, this contest is open to current middle and high school students in Waukesha County. The Century Fence Middle School & High School Read more
Lynne Diebel and Pat Dillon are independent writers. Dillon formerly wrote a regional travel colum and worked in advertising in Milwaukee and Chicago. Diebel previously taught English at Stoughton High School and is coauthor of ABCs Naturally, Paddling Northern Minnesota and Paddling Southern Minnesota. They are coauthors of Green Travel Read more
Pat Dillon and Lynne Diebel are independent writers. Dillon formerly wrote a regional travel colum and worked in advertising in Milwaukee and Chicago. Diebel previously taught English at Stoughton High School and is coauthor of ABCs Naturally, Paddling Northern Minnesota and Paddling Southern Minnesota. They are coauthors of Green Read more
Sarah C. Lange has been a magazine editor for 10 years, most recently at The Writer, which is dedicated to dispensing advice and inspiration for writers at every level. The magazine, owned by Kalmbach Publishing Co. in Waukesha, covers the craft and business of freelance writing, fiction writing, copywriting, screenwriting Read more
Paula Anderson publishes Echoes, a small press hand-stitched semi-annual poetry journal. Her publishing company Durnford’s Landing has published Idlewild by Ann Arntson, also Aubade and In the First Place by Judy Kolosso. Paula’s own poems have appeared in Icarus International, Centrifugal Eye, River Oak Review, Plainsongs, and others. She writes Read more
M. Scott Douglass is the Publisher and Managing Editor of Main Street Rag Publishing Company founded in 1996 ( North Carolina). His poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and he was the recipient of a NC Arts & Science Emerging Artists Grant in 2001. His work has appeared Read more
Michael Gordon is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He teaches courses in American Labor History, the History of Wisconsin, the 1950s, and local history, and serves as the Co-Coordinator of the department’s Public History Program, which helps prepare History graduate students for careers in museums and Read more
Timothy Thering is an Associate Professor of History at UW-Waukesha. Professor Timothy Thering hosts Paul Buhle, retired lecturer from Brown University, Professor Michael Gordon of UW-Milwaukee and labor cartoonist Mike Konopacki for Beer, Cheese, Brats, Unions: Wisconsin Labor History Then & Now an exploration of the significant role Wisconsin workers Read more
Janet LaBrie is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department at UW-Waukesha. She will be appearing at the Festival with colleagues Margaret Rozga and Elizabeth Zanichkowsky to discuss the special topic Recovering Women’s Voices. This panel will present a discussion of an inclusive range of more established writers and talk Read more