Profiles of participating authors in the Festival of Books.
Debut author Jessie Chandler is the Vice President of the Twin Cities chapter of Sisters in Crime. She runs a Lesbian Fiction book group at True Colors Bookstore, an independent, feminist-themed bookshop in the Twin Cities, and occasionally works at a Borders Bookstore in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. In her spare Read more…
Somchintana is a native Thai anthropologist and business manager. She received her graduate degrees in Medical Anthropology and Business Management in the United States. In both fields, her geographical area of specialty is Southeast Asia. Somchintana taught Medical Anthropology and Linguistic Anthropology at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. She also Read more…
Benjamin LeRoy is the Publisher of Tyrus Books, an independent press known for its crime and dark literary fiction. Before starting Tyrus Books in the summer of 2009, he was a founder and Publisher of Bleak House Books. In 2008, Publishers Weekly selected LeRoy as part of their “Fifty Under Read more…
Michael A. Black graduated from Columbia College, Chicago in 2000 with a Master of Fine Arts degree in Fiction Writing. He previously earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Northern Illinois Univeristy. Despite his literary leanings, he has often said that police work has been his life. A Read more…
William W. Vought has numerous screenwriting credit to his name and has worked in television, film and indie films. his resume also includes significant work in the theatre. TELEVISION credits include: Staff Writer for the CBS drama series CITY OF ANGELS, created and executive produced by Steven Bochco; Created, penned Read more…
Robin Chapman is author of six books of poetry, including a collaboration with the fractals images and explanations of physicist J.C. Sprott in Images of a Complex World: The Art and Poetry of Chaos, winner of the Posner Poetry Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers; The Dreamer Who Counted Read more…
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…
During a 40-year journalism career, Hofmann has covered every major Wisconsin sport as well as numerous national and international events ranging from the Olympics and the Super Bowl to the Final Four, the World Series and the US Open golf tournament. He was a Green Bay Packers and Milwaukee Bucks Read more…
Agatha, Anthony and Macavity winning investigative reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan is on the air at Boston’s NBC affiliate. She’s won 26 EMMYs and dozens of other journalism honors. Her debut, PRIME TIME, won the Agatha. FACE TIME is a BookSense Notable Book; AIR TIME an AGATHA and ANTHONY nominee. Her latest, Read more…
David Thome has written 20 screenplays. Four of them were optioned by companies in Hollywood and elsewhere–one of them twice–without his ever moving from Wisconsin. Past President of the Wisconsin Screenwriters Forum, recognitions include scripts which reached the semifinals of the Slamdance Screenplay Competition and the Maui Screenwriting award. Read more…