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KATHIE Christina Dean GIORGIO Schwarz Bakopoulos Friday, Saturday, Sunday Sept. 20 Sept. 21 Sept. 22 6:15 pm Noon 11:00 am

100 Authors and Presenters Talks • Readings • Panel Discussions • Interviews • Cookbook Stage • Children’s Program • Young Adult • Music • Exhibits • Book Sales and Signings • Food Free Admission • Free Parking www.sewibookfest.com UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-WAUKESHA • 1500 NORTH UNIVERSITY DRIVE • WAUKESHA, WI 53188 The Committee Festival support Presenting Sponsor The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Index Coordinator: Valerie Long IT Coordinator: Denise Spleas Grant Support Author and Presenter Bios...... 11-15 The Mihi Cura Futuri Fund of the Co-Chairs: Bonnie Birk and David Hackbarth Author Signing Times...... 9-10 Waukesha County Community Advisory Council: Andrea Bryant, Waukesha Philanthropist; Douglas N. Foundation Children’s Festival...... 6 Hastad, Carroll University President ; Suzanne Kelley, Waukesha County Cookbook Stage...... 6 Business Alliance President; Ellen Langill, History Professor and Author; Presentation Area Sponsors American Transmission Co. Cooperating Organizations...... 3 Grant Lynch, Waukesha Public Library Director; Harry Muir, UW- Waukesha Campus Dean; Mark Sabljak, Business Journal Publisher; Dan Century Fence Company Detailed Program...... 4,5,6,7 Vrakas, Waukesha County Executive . Wisconsin Energy Corporation Essay Contest ...... 4 Foundation Steering Committee: Susan Adams, UW-Waukesha Continuing Wisconsin Public Radio Exhibits...... 3 Education Director; Claudia Backus, Waukesha County Federated Festival Committee...... 2 Library System; Norm Bruce, Martha Merrell’s Bookstore Owner; Essay Contest Sponsor Steven Decker, UW-Waukesha Faculty ; Laurie Freund, Waukesha Fiction Presentations...... 8 Century Fence Company County Federated Library System; Kathie Giorgio, Allwriters’ Workplace Food...... 3 and Workshop Director & Author; Tom Hennen, Waukesha County Bookmark Sponsor Keynote Novelists...... 4,5,7 Federated Library System; Craig Hurst, UW-Waukesha Faculty; Carol Martha Merrell’s Books and Café Winkel, Marquette University; Kate Lewis, UW-Waukesha Foundation; and Cuddles Music Performance Times...... 3 Andrea Lochen, UW-Waukesha Faculty ; Becky Murray, Pauline Haass Sponsors Map...... 3 Public Library Sussex; Deb Running, Literacy Council of Greater Jennie J. Stoltz Non-Fiction Presentations...... 7 Waukesha; Edell Schaefer Brookfield Public Library Director; Tammy Tritz, Waukesha Pewaukee Convention and Visitors Bureau. Mary S. Knudten Participating Authors Bonnie Birk and Dave Helling (alpha order)...... 9-10 Executive Committee: Bonnie Birk, UW-Waukesha Foundation. Marilyn Lindemeyer Festival Co-chair and Volunteers Co-chair; Lillian Boese, UW-Waukesha Poetry Presentations...... 8 Michael and Laraine O’Brien Foundation Executive Director; Norm Bruce, Martha Merrell’s Science Fiction Presentations...... 8 Bookstore Owner; Steven Decker, UW-Waukesha Faculty; David Greater Milwaukee Foundation Science Fiction Writers of Hackbarth, UW-Waukesha Foundation, Festival Co-chair and Adult Bernard J. & Marie Weiss Fund The Practical Club America...... 8 Programming Chair; Kate Lewis, UW-Waukesha Foundation; Valerie Long, Festival Coordinator, Laraine O’Brien, UW-Waukesha Foundation, Peter and Laurie Van Tuinen Sponsors ...... 2 Sponsorship Chair and Marketing and Communications Chair; Judy Waukesha Freeman Young Adult Programs...... 6 Roller, Volunteers Co-chair ; Scott Silet, UW-Waukesha Library Director, Sign-a-rama Site Planning & Logistics Chair; Denise Spleas, Festival IT Coordinator. UW-Waukesha Lectures and Fine Arts Abbreviation Key Adult Programming: David Hackbarth, Chair; Bonnie Birk, Norm Committee C – Commons Bruce, Faye Flesia, Kathie Giorgio, Karol Kennedy, John Klima , Valerie Landmark Credit Union N—Northview Long, Larry Nelson, Laraine O’Brien, Judy Roller, Peggy Rozga, Lisa Terasa. Kate Lewis and Scott Silet PDR- Private Dining Room Children’s and Young Adult Programming: Eve Bruce, Norm Festival Patrons Bruce, Valerie Long, Anita Paque. Dub and Janet Brown Marketing and Communications: Laraine O’Brien, Chair; Bonnie Robert and Karen Calhoun Birk, Norm Bruce, Bambi Butzlaff-Voss, Candace Decker, Todd Goldsberry, Carol Dophin Valerie Long, Elaine Nap , Larry Nelson, Judy Roller, Denise Spleas, Faye Flesia Andy Turner . Reathy and David Hackbarth Sponsorship: Laraine O’Brien, Chair; Lillian Boese, Norm Bruce, Faye Glen and Sally Lunde Flesia, Kate Herrick, Valerie Long , Denise Spleas. Andrea Matthias Jim and Katy Phillips Volunteers: Bonnie Birk and Judy Roller, Co-Chairs Cecilia Rodriquez Site Planning & Logistics: Scott Silet, Chair; Valerie Long, Jeff Smerz, Sara Toenes Denise Spleas, David Weber. Don Weast Finance: Marilyn Lindemeyer, Lindemeyer and Associates, UW- Women’s Philanthropic Club Waukesha Foundation Board. Bruce Zessin We thank the Friends of the Festival for their gifts.

Grant Support Century Fence Company The Mihi Cura Futuri Fund

2 Cooperating organizations food & Beverages

UW-Waukesha Foundation Offered by Food Services, Inc. University of Wisconsin –Waukesha A variety of food and beverages are available at the festival. UW-Waukesha Continuing Education Coffee Bar – Student members of the UW-Waukesha Diversity Center UW-Waukesha Diversity Center will operate a coffee bar in the Commons Community Room. Alverno College Outdoor Grill – Burgers, Brats, Hot dogs, Veggie burgers, plus salads, Carroll University snacks and sweets. Marquette University Saturday Special BOX LUNCH and A BOOK. Order the box lunch Mount Mary University to eat during the Keynote by Christina Schwarz. Waukesha County Technical College Get the details at www.sewibookfest.com Waukesha County Business Alliance Saturday: 10 AM to 3 PM — Sunday; 10:30 AM to 2:30 PM Science Fiction Writers of America Waukesha County Federated Library System A utographs Big Bend Public Library Brookfield Public Library More than 100 authors in one place at one time, and you can get their Butler Public Library autographs on their books. The “Signing Area” is located at the Commons Delafield Public Library Student Lounge. To find out when your favorite author will be signing, Eagle Public Library check the alphabetical list of authors on pages 9 and 10. Authors will go Elm Grove Public Library to the signing area following their presentation. Hartland Public Library Menomonee Falls Public Library Exhibits Mukwonago Community Library Muskego Public Library Publishers, authors, literary organizations, book sellers: New Berlin Public Library Visit over 25 exhibit booths Friday, 5:00 PM-7:30 PM, Saturday, 9:00 North Lake Public Library AM.–6:00 PM and Sunday, 11:00 AM– 4:30 PM Oconomowoc Public Library Pewaukee Public Library Sussex Lisbon Public Library Finding Your Way Waukesha Public Library Literacy Council of Greater Waukesha FINE ARTS CENTER The Racine Public Library SOUTHVIEW The Milwaukee Public Library The City of Waukesha LIBRARY Waukesha County East & West D

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Wildlife In Need Center A COMMONS C E Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, F ADMINISTRATION G Wisconsin Chapter La Casa de Esperanza Allwriters’ Workplace and Workshop LLC Interfaith/RSVP

Musical programs Friday & Saturday A Room Commons 101 Restrooms Windy Hill Brass will present two musical performances during the Located in every campus Festival. On Friday at 5 PM, they will kick off with music at the Authors’ B Children’s and building that is open for the Reception. On Sunday at 1:30 PM, the group will present a one hour Young Adult Festival events. concert in the Commons Hub. Members of the Brass Include: Craig W Hurst, trumpet: Brett Meyer, trumpet: Sandy Frisque, horn, and David C Exhibits Where to Park Jensen, trombone. Free festival parking is located D Library East/ West in all University parking lots Sunday and as designated on Singer/Songwriter Larry O. Dean will weave music and literature together E Author Presentations both sides of University Drive. in two presentations on Sunday at noon and at 3:00 PM in Northview F Books, Merchandise and Signing Area Seating Policy 055. Dean, from Chicago, is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, band leader, poet, Seating is first come, first journalist, educator, existentialist and raconteur. G Information / Lost and Found seated.

3 Friday Keynoter - September 20th Saturday Programs

KATHIE GIORGIO 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Poetry People, Paula Anderson, Janet Leahy, Katy Phillips, Paula Schulz, Friday 6:00 PM and Johanna Siragusa, C101 Commons Hub Stage Connecting with Wisconsin Wildlife, Rebecca Mattano and 2013’s Learning to Rebecca Seymour, Hub Tell (A Life) Time Writing Fiction: It’s All True (…Sort Of), Katherine Hannigan, Library East On the Shoulders of Giants: How Reading made a Writer, Interviewed by Stephanie Lecci, Jinn Nelson, Library West WUWM-FM Lake Effect The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Sausage Making, Jeanette Hurt and Chef Jeff King, N125 Bringing her passion for writing to this year’s Festival of Books will be Keynote Lilly: Palm Beach, Tropical Glamour, and the Birth of a Fashion Legend, Speaker Kathie Giorgio as she debuts Kathryn Livingston, N127 her newest novel, Learning to Tell (A Life) Time, the sequel to Compressing The World Into Tiny Spaces: Writers of Short Fiction, 2011’s award-winning The Home for Wayward Clocks. Giorgio Claire Davis, Ron Rindo and G.K. Wuori, N129 uses a non-traditional format, inserting independent short stories Graphic Novels Panel, Matt Forbeck, Mike Norton and Bill between novel chapters, to portray what one reviewer calls “a Willingham N130 masterful, artful look at what it means to be human and the fis- More Than They Bargained for: Scott Walker, Unions and the Fight for sures that are ever present between any two people.” Her works Wisconsin, Patrick Marley and Jason Stein, N133 also include 2012’s short story collection, Enlarged Hearts. Be- You’ve Got Genre in my Literature, Alex Bledsoe, Richard Chwedyk cause Giorgio feels just as passionate about teaching and helping and John Klima, N140 other writers as she does about writing, she founded AllWriters’ Miss Licorice: Children’s Story Performer, RaChelle Lisiecki, PDR Workplace & Workshop LLC, an international creative writing studio located in Waukesha. Her studio offers her the opportunity 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM to write as well as to revel in the creation of a writing community Poetry of B.J. Best, Sarah Busse and Cathryn Cofell, C101 that brings support and encouragement to all writers, new or Kohl’s Wild Theater, Hub seasoned. From Cats to Moo: Inspiration, Imagination and Publication, JoAnn Early Macken, PDR Literacy Reader and Contest Winners Read, fold, play: origami meets “The Force”, Sue Klopp, Library East The keynote program will also include a reading by a student from Breathing Fictional Life into an Extinct Species (Or How I Crafted the Literacy Council of Greater Waukesha and presentation of the the Setting of my Western, One Came Home), Amy Timberlake, awards for the Century Fence Student Essay Contest open to all Library West middle and high school students. First place winners will read their Little Free Libraries, Rick Brooks, N055 essays on Saturday, Sept.21 at 10:45 am in Northview 055. Liter- Food in Books: A Great Discussion at the Book Club, Mary Liz Shaw acy student writings and the winning essays are on display in the and Julie Tharp, N125 UW-Waukesha Library. Literacy Biographies, Cassandra Phillips, N127 festival herald - September 19th Lessons from the Heartland, Barbara Miner, N129 Science Fiction Gaming, Matt Forbeck, Gary Kloster and JAMES LOWDER Bob Love , N130 Games of Thrones and We’re More Than Cornfields & Cheese: Putting the Midwest into the Triumph of Fantasy Literature, Dean Bakopoulos and Kathie Giorgio, N133 Thursday Noon How a Book Gets Made, Alex Bledsoe,John Klima, James Lowder, Commons 101 Steven H Silver and Kristine Smith, N140 UW-Waukesha Visions and Expressions Lecture Series 12:00 NOON - 12:45 PM Keynote, Christina Schwarz with interview by Ben Merrens, N133 James Lowder‘s publications include the bestselling, widely translated dark fantasy 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM novels Prince of Lies and Knight of the Black Rose. He’s written role-playing game products and hundreds Kohl’s Wild Theater, Hub of feature articles, columns, and film and book reviews. As an editor, Lowder has directed book lines or series for both large and small How NOT to Write a Picture Book, Katherine Hannigan, Library East houses, and has helmed such critically acclaimed anthologies as Hobby Inspiration Cultivation: The Challenge of Writing a Sequel, Deborah E. Games: The 100 Best, Curse of the Full Moon, the Books of Flesh and Zachary A. Posca, Library West trilogy, and Beyond the Wall: Exploring George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Miss Licorice: Children’s Story Performer, RaChelle Lisiecki, PDR Ice and Fire.

4 saturday Keynoter - September 21st

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Christina Schwarz

Pop Goes the Academy: Reflections on Popular and American Culture, Timothy Dunn, Joseph Foy, Lilly Goren, Dean Kowalski and Saturday, Noon Ellyn Lem, C101 Northview 133 Dakota, the Owl, and other Animal Ambassadors from WINC, Hub From Cats to Moo: Inspiration, Imagination and Publication, JoAnn Early Interviewed by Ben Merens, Macken, PDR Public Radio Personality Breathing Fictional Life into an Extinct Species (Or How I Crafted the Setting of my Western, One Came Home), Amy Timberlake, Library West Little Free Libraries, Rick Brooks, N055

More About Farmers’ Markets, Kathleen Bubinas, N125

Those Characters Won’t Let me Go, Paul Salsini, N127 Poetry of Mary Jo Balistreri, Karla Huston and Chuck Rybak, N129 Christina Schwarz, author of The Edge of the Earth, has fon- Glitter and Mayhem/Crowdfunding, Matt Forbeck, John Klima, Lynne memories of growing up on Pewaukee Lake and her love of M.Thomas and Michael D. Thomas, N130 Wisconsin inspired her to draw on her roots. Other novels to What do Women Want: The Complexity of Writing for Women, Lauren her credit are All Is Vanity, So Long at the Fair, and Drowning Fox, Ilona Fridl, Kathie Giorgio, Andrea Lochen and Kelly Moran, N133 Ruth, a 2000 NY Times bestseller and Oprah’s Book Club se- Genre in Young Adult Science Fiction, Janet Deaver-Pack, Christine lection. Schwarz immerses herself in her book settings. For her Verstraete and Mary Frances Zambreno, N140 fourth novel, she moved her family temporarily to Carmel, near the isolated California lighthouse that her restless character escapes to from a predictable, comfortable life in 1898 Milwau- 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM kee. Schwarz’s intriguing characters and intimate connection with nature are intricately woven into her stories. “I write the Dakota, the Owl, and other Animal Ambassadors from WINC, Hub books that I would like to read,” she says. “I imagine myself as On the Shoulders of Giants: How Reading made a Writer, Jinn one of the characters and examine how I would feel or react Nelson, Library West to situations that people find themselves in.” Miss Licorice: Children’s Story Performer, RaChelle Lisiecki, PDR Read, fold, play: origami meets “The Force”, Sue Klopp, Library East 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

A Midwesterner Goes West: The Effects of Differing Landscapes on 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Story and Character, Claire Davis, C101 Food Memoir: Reading and Writing, Silvana Bastianutti Kukuljan and Poetry of Brenda Cárdenas and Chuck Stebelton, C101 Lisa Terasa, N125 Little Free Libraries, Rick Brooks, N055 Fantasy Series, Summer Hanford, N127 Reading Cookbooks as Literature, Ellyn Lem and Lisa Terasa, N125 Writing the Historical Novel: Shame the Devil, Debra Brenegan, N129 People are Dying to be Heard, Ben Merens, N127 Jane Austen/Science Fiction Fantasy, Mary Robinette Kowal and Lynne What Makes a Book Valuable, Andrew McLean, N129 M. Thomas, N130 Short Fiction / Science Fiction, Gary Kloster, Aaron Schutz, Lynne M. Today’s Publishing Relationship: Publisher, Publicist, Author, Cover Artist, Thomas and Patrick S. Tomlinson, N130 M. Scott Douglass, Kathie Giorgio, Elizabeth Ridley and Christopher Science Fiction Readings, SF Readings, N140 Werkman, N133 Zombies, Mike Norton and Christine Verstraete, N140 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Learn About Little Free Libraries Connecting with Wisconsin Wildlife, Rebecca Mattano and Rebecca Wisconsin’s own Little Free Libraries founder, Rick Brooks, will Seymour, Hub show a film and talk about how an estimated 500 neighborhood Infinite ossibilities:P Exploring the Realm of a Fantasy Novel, Markelle book exchanges that have cropped up to become gathering places Grabo, Library and community resources for children and adults of all ages and backgrounds. The “Take a Book, Return a Book” collections have been built or sponsored by schools, clubs, businesses, and govern- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM mental agencies to contribute to and improve the local quality of Little Free Libraries, Rick Brooks, N055 life. This phenomenon has spread to 46 countries. Want one for your neighborhood or business? Come and see!

5 Children's and Young adulT FesTival - sepTemBer 21sT

Join us for the newly expanded Children’s and Young Adult program 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM of the 2013 Festival. This year the Festival features new performanc- Dakota, the Owl, and other Animal Ambassadors from WINC, Hub es and presentations for these age groups. From Cats to Moo: Inspiration, Imagination and Publication, JoAnn Early Children’s Area: Macken, PDR • Wisconsin’s own Little Free Libraries - Watch the original film Breathing Fictional Life into an Extinct Species (Or How I Crafted the Set- on Little Free Libraries and meet the men who started it all. ting of my Western, One Came Home), Amy Timberlake, Library West Learn how you and your family can build your own Little Free Little Free Libraries, Rick Brooks, N055 Library. Activities, Books and Fun. • Kohl’s Wild Theater - Engaging wildlife adventures that bring 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM conservation themed theater performances right to you! Dakota, the Owl, and other Animal Ambassadors from WINC, Hub • Connecting With Wisconsin Wildlife: Unearth a better under- On the Shoulders of Giants: How Reading made a Writer, Jinn standing and appreciation for the wild wonders found right in Nelson, Library West our own backyards. Meet the inspiration for the book, Dakota Miss Licorice: Children’s Story Performer, RaChelle Lisiecki, PDR the great horned owl, a beloved ambassador for the Wildlife In Read, fold, play: origami meets “The Force”, Sue Klopp, Library East Need Center(WINC), and find out how his story was the inspi- Breathing Fictional Life into an Extinct Species (Or How I Crafted the Set- ration for the book. ting of my Western, One Came Home), Amy Timberlake, Library West • “Miss Licorice” - A children’s storyteller has created a perfor- Little Free Libraries, Rick Brooks, N055 mance especially for you on her new story, Where the Favorite Things Live. 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Young Adults Area: Little Free Libraries, Rick Brooks, N055 • The Science Fiction theme from the Adult area is also being carried into Young Adult programming. Jinn Nelson will be pre- 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM senting her debut novel Fear the Hunted. Deborah and Zachary Connecting with Wisconsin Wildlife, Rebecca Mattano and Rebecca Posca will talk about their second novel which will take readers Seymour, Hub on a journey from the Kingdome to the exotic lands of the Infinite ossibilities:P Exploring the Realm of a Fantasy Novel, Markelle Empyre. Markelle Grabo scored a hit with the first two books of Grabo, Library her young adult fantasy series and will be joining us to speak on her third book of the series, Journey Into The Realm. 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM • Little Free Libraries will also be in attendance in the Young Adult Little Free Libraries, Rick Brooks, N055 area and you’ll learn how to build your own Little Free Library! So, join us and open yourself to new worlds! COOKBOOK STAGE 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Hosted by Lori Fredrich, Dining Writer Connecting with Wisconsin Wildlife, Rebecca Mattano and Rebecca OnMilwaukee.com Seymour, Hub Saturday, September 21, Northview 125 Writing Fiction: It’s All True (…Sort Of), Katherine Hannigan, Library East On the Shoulders of Giants: How Reading made a Writer, Jinn Nelson, 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Library West The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Sausage Miss Licorice: Children’s Story Performer, RaChelle Lisiecki, PDR Making, Jeanette Hurt and Chef Jeff King, N125 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Kohl’s Wild Theater, Hub 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM From Cats to Moo: Inspiration, Imagination and Publication, JoAnn Early Food in Books: A Great Discussion at the Book Club, Mary-Liz Macken, PDR Shaw and Julie Tharp, N125 Read, fold, play: origami meets “The Force”, Sue Klopp, Library East Breathing Fictional Life into an Extinct Species (Or How I Crafted the 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Setting of my Western, One Came Home), Amy Timberlake, Library West More About Farmers’ Markets, Kathleen Bubinas, N125 Little Free Libraries, Rick Brooks, N055 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Reading Cookbooks as Literature, Ellyn Lem and Lisa Terasa, N125 Kohl’s Wild Theater, Hub How NOT to Write a Picture Book, Katherine Hannigan, Library East 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Inspiration Cultivation: The Challenge of Writing a Sequel, Deborah E. Food Memoir: Reading and Writing, Silvana Bastianutti Kukuljan and and Zachary A. Posca, Library West Lisa Terasa, N125 Miss Licorice: Children’s Story Performer, RaChelle Lisiecki, PDR

6 sunday programs sunday Keynoter - September 22nd Dean Bakopoulos 11:00 AM - 12:00 NOON Sunday, 11:00AM Keynote, Dean Bakopoulos , N133 Northview 133

Dean Bakopoulos teaches English at Grinnell College in Iowa and is the 12:00 NOON - 1:00 PM author of two novels, Please Don’t Myths, Mysteries, and Monsters of Wisconsin, Linda Godfrey, C101 Come Back From the Moon and My Threaded Metaphors, Mary Ellen Heus, Kathleen Hughes, Judy Zoelzer American Unhappiness. A new novel, Levine, Elizabeth Lewis, Marla Moriis-Kennedy, CJ Muchhala, Helen Summerlong, is forthcoming. He 7 Padway, Marta Ptacek , Margaret Rozga, Connie Tresch, Carolyn Vargo, lectures widely and has written essays Phyllis Wax, Library for many publications on topics that The Poetry and Music of a Singer/Songwriter, Larry O. Dean, N055 range from the economic and environmental problems facing From Mythic Rocks, Pilar Melero, N127 the post-industrial Rust Belt to inspiring a love for literature in Pencils Down: Implications of High School Testing, Amy Gutkowski, his students. His recent New York Times Book Review essay N129 banners the pleasures of reading and the power of literature, that moment when “a snippet of dialogue or flight of lyricism” Science Fiction Archives, Bill Fliss, Lynne M. Thomas and Max Yela, N130 inspires a “stirring in your soul.” Kirkus Reviews captured the Electronic Publishing, Bradley Beaulieu, Bruce Bethke and Holly flavor of the social commentary in his novels when it said, “My McDowell, N140 American Unhappiness shimmers with mischief and offbeat charm. A dark entertainment infused by a bluesy yearning for a 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM better America.” The Future of the Book, Shannon Barniskis, Tracy Honn, Sam Scinta and 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Chuck Stebelton, C101 Windy Hill Brass Concert , Craig Hurst, Hub Politics in Fiction: My American Unhappiness, Dean Bakopoulos, C101 Hungering for Meaning: New Perspectives on The Hunger Games Southeast Wisconsin Literary Magazine Panel, Ching-In Chen and Trilogy, Joseph Foy, Lisa Hager and Ellyn Lem, Library J. Rod Clark, Library Black Stiletto, Raymond Benson, N127 The Poetry and Music of a Singer/Songwriter, Larry O. Dean, N055 Poetic Equations: Math Translates To Poetry, Robin Chapman, N129 The UFO Phenomenon, Richard Thieme, N129 Game of Thrones Panel, Patricia Hodgell, James Lowder and Stephen Steampunk Science Fiction, Lisa Hager, John Klima, Jody Lynn Nye, N130 Sullivan, N133 Chick Lit and Women’s Fiction: Sexist Marketing Practices? Andrea Lochen, N133 Program PrevieW The Southeastern Wisconsin Festival of Books Program committee is excited about the collection of authors that will be making presentations at the Festival. Some committee members provide highlights in fiction, non-fiction, science fiction and poetry to preview the Festival.

Non-fiction

From political turmoil in Madison to the fascinating life of a fashion More Than They Bargained for: Scott Walker, Unions and the Fight for icon, from the life of a Waukesha woman who was born in Mex- Wisconsin, Patrick Marley and Jason Stein, Sat, 9:30 AM, N133 ico to UFO phenomena, the non-fiction programs are packed Myths, Mysteries and Monsters of Wisconsin, Linda Godfrey, Sun, with interesting topics to take you to Books and Beyond: Literacy Noon, C101 Without Limits. See our listing below and catch the authors’bios Pencils Down: Implications of High Stakes Testing, Amy Gutowski, Sun, on pages 11-15 to pick your favorite program. Noon, N129 People are Dying to be Heard, Ben Merens, Sat, 3:00 PM, N127 From Mythic Rocks, Pilar Melero, Sun, Noon, N127 Pop Goes the Academy: Reflections on Popular and American Culture, Joseph Foy, Lilly Goren, Dean Kowalski, Ellyn Lem and Timothy Dunn Lilly: Palm Beach, Tropical Glamour, and the Birth of a Fashion Legend, Kathryn Livingston, Sat, 9:30 AM, N127 Sat, 1:30 PM, C101 Literacy Biographies, Cassandra Phillips, Sat, 10:45 AM, N127 Lessons from the Heartland, Barbara Miner, Sat, 10:45 AM, N129 The UFO Phenomenon, Richard Thieme, Sun, 3:00 PM, N129

7 Science Fiction Archives, Bill Fliss, Lynne M. Thomas and Max Yela, Sun, Program Preview Continued Noon, N130 Science Fiction Gaming, Matt Forbeck, Gary Kloster and Bob Love, Sat, Science fiction 10:45 AM, N130 Science Fiction Readings, N140 The Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books Short Fiction / Science Fiction, Gary Kloster, Aaron Schutz, Lynne M. is partnering with the Science Fiction Thomas and Patrick Tomlinson, Sat, 3:00 PM, N130 Writers of America (SFWA), the international organization for Steampunk Science Fiction, Lisa Hager, John Klima and Jody Lynn Nye, authors of SF, fantasy, and related genres. SFWA membership is open Sun, 3:00 PM, N130 to authors, artists, and other industry professionals, including graphic You’ve Got Genre in my Literature, Alex Bledsoe, Richard Chwedyk novelists. Yearly since 1965, the organization presents the prestigious and John Klima, Sat, 9:30 AM, N140 Nebula Awards, which are voted on and presented by active members Zombies, Mike Norton and Christie Verstraete, Sat, 4:30 PM, N140 of SFWA. John Klima, Assistant Director of Waukesha Public Library, is winner of science fiction’s Hugo award for his fanzine ELECTRIC Fiction VELOCIPEDE. With his considerable background and expertise in the Fiction thrives at this year’s Festival of Books. Our three keynote genre, Klima has organized more than a dozen panel discussions and speakers are each established novelists, and Science Fiction and readings under the SFWA banner for the Festival. Fantasy authors are the focus for our Science Fiction Writers of A panel on GAME OF THRONES is led by James Lowder…Two- America participants. More highlights of our program include the time Hugo Award winner Lynne M. Thomas is the Curator of following writers: Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University, Claire Davis, UW-W’s 2012 Outstanding Alumna, is a distin- where she is responsible for popular culture special collections that guished novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, Winter include the literary papers of more than 60 SF/F authors….A panel Range, made best book lists of national newspapers and received on graphic novels will feature New York Times bestselling author Bill both the PNBA and MPBA awards for best fiction… Short story Willingham, creator of the popular FABLES comic book series… writers Ron Rindo and G.K. Wuori will be joined by Claire Mary Robinette Kowal received the Campbell Award for Best Davis to present a panel on the contemporary short story. Rindo New Writer in 2008, and in 2011, her short story “For Want of a Nail” has twice won the Wisconsin Arts Board Creative Writing Fel- lowship. A Pushcart Prize winner and Illinois Arts Council Fellow, won the Hugo Award for Short Story…Bradley P. Beaulieu is an L. G.K. Wuori has published more than a hundred stories in a variety Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Award winner for his short fiction. of journals... Paul Salsini’s award-winning A Tuscan Trilogy is …Matt Forbeck has been designing award-winning ames and fiction followed by his most recent short story collection, The Temptation since 1989. He has twenty-three novels published to date, including Of Father Lorenzo, in which characters from the trilogy return… the award-nominated Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon and the critically Kirkus Review praised Andrea Lochen’s first novel, The Repeat acclaimed Amortals and Vegas Knights... Additional SFWA presentations Year, as “...a debut novel that offers a fascinating glimpse into one will focus upon SF and Fantasy Gaming, Steampunk, Crowdfunding, woman’s opportunity to rewrite her past and change her fu- Zombies, Science Fiction/Short Fiction, Electronic Publishing, and much ture.”…There are still more presentations that fiction readers may more. The depth and breadth of our Science Fiction and Fantasy pro- choose, including Debra Brenegan on writing the historical novel gramming is rare for any book festival, and we are very proud to offer .Shame The Devil, the Midwest as setting in keynoters Bakopoulis it to Southeast Wisconsin audiences. and Giorgio’s discussion “More than Cornfields and Cheese,”Ray - mond Benson on his popular thriller series, Black Stiletto and a women’s fiction panel includingLauren Fox and Kelly Moran, Fantasy Series, Summer Hanford, Sat, 4:30 PM, N127 “What do Women Want?” You will find even more novelists and Electronic Publishing, Bradley Beaulieu, Bruce Bethke and Holly short story writers on Saturday and Sunday’s extensive schedule. McDowell, Sun, Noon, N140 Game of Thrones and the Triumph of Fantasy, James Lowder, Thurs, A Midwesterner Goes West: The Effects of Differing Landscapes on Noon, C101 Story and Character, Claire Davis, Sat, 4:30 PM, C101 Game of Thrones Panel, Patricia Hodgell, James Lowder and Stephen Black Stiletto, Raymond Benson, Sun, 1:30 PM, N127` Sullivan , Sun, 1:30 PM, N133 Chick Lit and Women’s Fiction: Sexist Marketing Practices? Andrea Short Fiction / Science Fiction, Gary Kloster, Aaron Schutz, Lynne M. Lochen, Sun, 3:00 PM, N133 Thomas and Patrick Tomlinson, Sat, 3:00 PM, N130 Compressing The World Into Tiny Spaces: Writers of Short Fiction, Glitter and Mayhem/Crowdfunding, Matt Forbeck, John Klima, Lynne M. Claire Davis, Ron Rindo and G.K.Wuori, Sat, 9:30 AM, N129 Thomas and Michael D. Thomas, Sat, 1:30 PM, N130 Keynote, Kathie Giorgio, Fri, 6:15 PM, Hub Genre in Young Adult Science Fiction, Janet Deaver-Pack, Christine Keynote, Christina Schwarz, Sat, 12:00 AM, N133 Verstraete and Mary France Zambreno, Sat, 1:30 PM, N140 Keynote, Dean Bakopoulos, Sun, 11:00 AM, N133 Graphic Novels Panel, Matt Forbeck, Mike Norton, and Bill Willingham, Politics in Fiction: American Unhappiness, Dean Bakopoulos, Sun, 3:00 Sat, 9:30 AM, N130 PM, C101 How a Book Gets Made, Alex Bledsoe, John Klima, James Lowder, Those Characters Won’t Let me Go, Paul Salsini, Sat, 1:30 PM, N127 Steven H Silver and Kristine Smith, Sat, 10:45 AM, N140 We’re More Than Cornfields & Cheese: Putting the Midwest into Jane Austen/Science Fiction Fantasy, Mary Robinette Kowal and Lynne Literature, Dean Bakaopoulos and Kathie Giorgio, Sat,10:45 AM, N133 M. Thomas, Sat, 4:30 PM, N130

8 What do Women Want: The Complexity of Writing for Women, Lauren Fox, Ilona Fridl, Kathie Giogio, Andrea Lochen and Kelly Moran, Sat, 1:30 Authors, Speakers, Signings PM, N133 Bakopoulos, Dean Chwedyk, Richard We’re More Than Cornfields & Cheese: Putting the You’ve Got Genre in my Literature Writing the Historical Novel: Shame the Devil, Debra Brenegan, Sat, Midwest into Literature Sat, 9:30 AM, N140 4:30 PM, N129 Sat, 10:45 AM, N133 Keynote Clark, J. Rod Sun, 11:00 AM, N133 Southeast Wisconsin Literary Magazine Panel Sun, 3:00 PM, Library Politics in Fiction: American Unhappiness Poetry Sun, 3:00 PM, C101 Cofell, Cathryn Signing Time: Sat 1:30 PM, Sun 1:30 PM Poetry of:

What a wonderful, wide-ranging, creative domain poetry is! Both Balistreri, Mary Jo Sat, 10:45 AM, C101 Poetry of Mary Jo Balistreri Signing Time: Sat 1:30 PM believers and doubters need only take a look at the diverse styles, sub- Sat, 1:30 PM, N129 Davis, Claire Signing Time: Sat 3:00 PM Compressing The World Into Tiny Spaces: Writers jects and approaches in the line-up at the 2013 Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books to be convinced. Barniskis, Shannon of Short Fiction The Future of the Book Sat, 9:30 AM, N129 Check out poems that inspire and are inspired by visual art in the Sun, 1:30 PM, C101 A Midwesterner Goes West: The Effects of Differ- ing Landscapes on Story and Character Threaded Metaphors Exhibit. Displayed in grand style near their fiber Bastinianutti-Kukuljan, Silvana Sat, 4:30 PM, C101 art companion pieces, these poems show many imaginative ways Food Memoir: Reading and Writing Signing Time: Sat 10:45 AM Sat, 4:30 PM, N125 words and images can relate and interact. The poets are CJ Much- Dean, Larry O. Beaulieu, Bradley The Poetry and Music of a Singer/Songwriter hala, Helen Padway, Mara Ptacek, Margaret Rozga, Carolyn Electronic Publishing Sun, noon, N055 Vargo, Phyllis Wax. The visual artists are Connie Tresch, July Sun, Noon, N140 Sun, 3:00 PM, N055 Signing Time: Sun 1:30 PM Signing Time: Sun 1:30 PM Zoelzer Levine, Elizabeth Lewis, Kathleen Hughes, Marla Benson, Raymond Deaver-Pack, Janet Morris Kennedy, and Mary Ellen Heus…Poetry pairs up with Black Stiletto Genre in Young Adult Science Fiction music, with Chicago-based Larry O. Dean and Mary Jo Balistreri, Sun, 1:30 PM, N127 Sat, 1:30 PM, N140 Signing Time: Sun 3:00 PM Signing Time: Sat 3:00 PM a classical concert pianist and harpsichordist before she turned to po- Best, B.J. Douglass, M. Scott etry. She will be joined by Pushcart Prize winner Karla Huston. Also Poetry of B.J.Best Today’s Publishing Relationship: Publisher, Publicist, on board for this session is Chuck Rybak, who will read from his Sat, 10:45 AM, C101 Author, Cover Artist Signing Time: Sat 1:30 PM Sat, 4:30 PM, N133 new book, War, as well as earlier poems...Sarah Busse, co-editor of Bethke, Bruce Dunn, Timothy Verse Wisconsin and co-poet laureate of Madison, will read from her Electronic Publishing Pop Goes the Academy: Reflections on Popular and Sun, Noon, N140 American Culture book, Somewhere Piano, winner of the 2013 Gerald Posner Poetry Signing Time: Sun 1:30 PM Sat, 1:30 PM, C101 Book Award. Joining Sarah will be Carroll University Professor B.J. Bledsoe, Alex Fliss, Bill Best, author of But Our Princess Is in Another Castle, a collection of You’ve Got Genre in my Literature Science Fiction Archives - Sun, Noon, N130 Sat, 9:30 AM, N140 video-game inspired prose poems, and Cathryn Cofell, Chair of the How a Book Gets Made Forbeck, Matt Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission, who’ll read from her just-re- Sat, 10:45 AM, N140 Graphic Novels Panel Signing Time: Sat 1:30 PM Sat, 9:30 AM, N130 leased book Sister Satellite…Robin Chapman brings a background Science Fiction Gaming Brenegan, Debra Sat, 10:45 AM, N130 in science to her poetry.…The Poetry People, include Paula Anderson, Writing the Historical Novel: Shame the Devil Glitter and Mayhem/Crowdfunding Janet Leahy, Katy Phillips, Paula Schulz, and Johanna Siragusa…UW Sat, 4:30 PM, N129 Sat, 1:30 PM, N130 - Signing Time: Sat 3:00 PM Signing Time: Sat 5:30 PM Milwaukee professor Brenda Cardenas offers a blend of English Fox, Lauren and Spanish in her poetry… Chuck Stebleton, Literary Program Brooks, Rick What do Women Want: The Complexity of Writing Little Free Libraries for Women Director at Woodland Pattern Book Center will join Brenda to read Sat, 10:45 AM, N055 Sat, 1:30 PM, N133 Sat, 1:30 PM, N055 Signing Time: Sat 3:00 PM from his new poetry collection, The Platformist. …Poet and commu- Sat, 3:00 PM, N055 Foy, Joseph nity organizer Ching-In Chen joins Rod Clark, poet and editor of Sat, 4:00 PM, N055 Pop Goes the Academy: Reflections on Popular and the literary journal Rosebud, in a discussion of southeast Wisconsin American Culture Bubinas, Kathleen Sat, 1:30 PM, C101 literary magazines…Step into one of these sessions, or take in the More About Farm Markets Hungering for Meaning: New Perspectives on The Sat, 1:30 PM, N125 Hunger Games Trilogy whole array! Sun, 1:30 PM, Library Busse, Sarah Signing Time: Sat 3:00 PM, Sun 3:00 PM Poetic Equations: Math Translates To Poetry, Robin Chapman, Sun, 1:30 Poetry of Sarah Busse Sat, 10:45 AM, C101 Fridl, Ilona PM, N129 Signing Time: Sat 1:30 PM What do Women Want: The Complexity of Writing Poetry of B.J. Best, Sarah Busse and Cathryn Cofell, Sat, 10:45 AM, for Women C101 Cárdenas, Brenda Sat, 1:30 PM, N133 Poetry of Brenda Cárdenas Signing Time: Sat 3:00 PM Poetry of Mary Jo Balistreri, Karla Huston and Chuck Rybak, Sat, 1:30 Sat, 3:00 PM, C101 Giorgio, Kathie PM, N129 Signing Time: Sat 4:30 PM Keynote Poetry of Brenda Cárdenas and Chuck, Stebleton, Sat, 3:00 PM, C101 Chapman, Robin Fri, 6:15 PM, Hub Poetic Equations: Math Translates To Poetry We’re More Than Cornfields & Cheese: Putting the Poetry People, Sat, 9:30 AM, C101 Sun, 1:30 PM, N129 Midwest into Literature Southeast Wisconsin Literary Magazine Panel, Chen Ching-In, Sun, 3:00 Signing Time: Sun 3:00 PM Sat, 10:45 am, N133 What do Women Want: The Complexity of Writing PM, Library for Women The Poetry and Music of a Singer/Songwriter, Larry O. Dean, Sun, Ching-In, Chen Sat, 1:30 PM, N133 Noon and 3:00 PM, N055 Southeast Wisconsin Literary Magazine Panel Today’s Publishing Relationship: Publisher, Publicist, Sun, 3:00 PM, Library Author,Cover Artist Signing Time: Sun 4:00 PM Sat, 4:30 PM, N133 Threaded Metaphors: Text and Textiles, Sun, Noon, Library Signing Time: Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 3:00 PM

9 Macken, JoAnn Early Sat, 12:30 PM, Library Terasa, Lisa Authors, Speakers, Signings From Cats to Moo: Inspiration, Imagina- Signing Time: Sat 1:30 PM Reading Cookbooks as Literature tion, and Publication Sat, 3:00 PM, N125 Godfrey, Linda Sun, 3:00 PM, N130 Sat, 10:45 AM, PDR Posca, Zachary A. Food Memoir: Reading and Writing Myths, Mysteries, and Monsters of Signing Time: Sat 3:00 PM, Sun 4:00 PM Sat, 1:30 PM, PDR Inspiration Cultivation: The Challenge of Sat, 4:30 PM, N125 Wisconsin Signing Time: Sat 11:30 AM Writing a Sequel Sun, Noon, C101 Klopp, Sue Sat, 12:30 PM, Library Tharp, Julie Signing Time: Sun 1:30 PM Read, fold, play: origami meets “The Marley, Patrick Signing Time: Sat 1:30 PM Food in Books: A Great Discussion at the Force” More Than They Bargained for: Scott Book Club Goren, Lilly Sat, 10:45 AM, Library Walker, Unions and the Fight for Ptacek, Mara Pop Goes the Academy: Reflections on Sat, 2:30 PM, Library Wisconsin Threaded Metaphors Thieme, Richard Popular and American Culture Sat, 9:30 AM, N133 Sun, Noon, Library The UFO Phenomenon Kloster, Gary Sun, 3:00 PM, N129 Sat, 1:30 PM, C101 Signing Time: Sat 10:45 AM Ridley, Elizabeth Signing Time: Sat 3:00 PM Science Fiction Gaming Signing Time: Sun 4:00 PM Sat, 10:45 AM, N130 Mattano, Rebecca Today’s Publishing Relationship: Publish- Grabo, Markelle Short Fiction Panel Science Fiction Connecting with Wisconsin Wildlife er, Publicist, Author,Cover Artist Thomas, Lynne M. Infinite Possibilities: Exploring the Realm Sat, 4:30 PM, N133 Glitter and Mayhem/Crowdfunding Sat, 3:00 PM, N130 Sat, 9:30 AM, Hub of a Fantasy Novel Sat, 3:30 AM, Hub Sat, 1:30 PM, N130 Kohl’s Wild Theater Rindo, Ron Short Fiction Panel Science Fiction Sat, 3:30 PM, Library Signing Time: Sat 10:45 AM Compressing The World Into Tiny Signing Time: Sat 4:30 PM Sat, 10:45 AM, Hub Sat, 3:00 PM, N130 Sat, 12:30 PM, Hub McDowell, Holly Spaces: Writers of Short Fiction Jane Austen/Science Fiction Fantasy Gutowski, Amy Electronic Publishing Sat, 9:30 AM, N129 Sat, 4:30 PM, N130 Pencils Down-Implications of High Kowal, Mary Robinette Sun, Noon, N140 Signing Time: Sat 10:45 AM Science Fiction Archives Jane Austen/Science Fiction Fantasy Stakes Testing Signing Time: Sun 1:30 PM Rozga, Margaret Sun, Noon, N130 Sat, 4:30 PM, N130 Sun, Noon, N129 Threaded Metaphors Signing Time: Sat 5:30 PM, Sun 1:30 PM Signing Time: Sun 1:30 PM Signing Time: Sat 5:30 PM McLean, Andrew What Makes a Book Valuable Sun, Noon, Library Thomas, Michael D. Hager, Lisa Kowalski, Dean Sat, 3:00 PM, N129 Signing Time: Sun 1:30 PM Glitter and Mayhem/Crowdfunding Pop Goes the Academy: Reflections on Hungering for Meaning: New Perspec- Signing Time: Sat 4:30 PM Rybak, Chuck Sat, 1:30 PM, N130 Popular and American Culture tives on The Hunger Games Trilogy Poetry of Chuck Rybak Signing Time: Sun 3:00 PM Sat, 1:30 PM, C101 Merens, Ben Sun, 1:30 PM, Library Sat, 1:30 PM, N129 Steampunk Science Fiction Signing Time: Sat 3:00 PM Interview Christina Schwarz Timberlake, Amy Signing Time: Sat 3:00 PM Sun, 3:00 PM, N130 Sat, Noon, N133 Breathing Fictional Life into an Extinct Lecci, Stephanie People are Dying to be Heard Species (Or How I Crafted the Setting of Signing Time: Sun 4:00 PM Interview Kathie Giorgio Salsini, Paul Sat, 3:00 PM, N127 Those Characters Won’t Let me Go my Western, One Came Home Hanford, Summer FRI, 7:00 PM, Hub Signing Time: Sat 1:30 PM Sat, 1:30 PM, N127 Sat, 10:45 AM, Library Fantasy Series Sat, 1:30 PM, Library Lem, Ellyn Melero, Pilar Signing Time: Sat 3:00 PM Sat, 4:30 PM, N127 Pop Goes the Academy: Reflections on Signing Time: Sat 2:30 PM Signing Time: Sat 5:30 PM From Mythic Rocks Schutz, Aaron Popular and American Culture Sun, Noon, N127 Tomlinson, Patrick S. Sat, 1:30 PM, C101 Short Fiction Panel Science Fiction Hannigan, Katherine Signing Time: Sun 1:30 PM Sat, 3:00 PM, N130 Short Fiction Panel Science Fiction Writing Fiction: It’s All True (…Sort Of) Reading Cookbooks as Literature Sat, 3:00 PM, N130 Sat, 9:30 AM, Library Sat, 3:00 PM, N125 Miner, Barbara Schwarz, Christina Signing Time: Sat 4:30 PM How NOT to Write a Picture Book Hungering for Meaning: New Perspec- Lessons from the Heartland Keynote Sat, 12:30 PM, Library tives on The Hunger Games Trilogy Sat, 10:45 AM, N129 Sat, Noon, N133 Tresch, Connie Signing Time: Sat 10:45 AM Sun, 1:30 PM, Library Signing Time: Sat 1:30 PM Signing Time: Sat 1:30 PM Threaded Metaphors Signing Time: Sat 4:30 PM, Sun 3:00 PM Sun, Noon, Library Heus, Mary Ellen Moran, Kelly Scinta, Sam Threaded Metaphors Levine, Judy Zoelzer What do Women Want: The Complexity The Future of the Book Vargo, Carolyn Sun, Noon, Library Threaded Metaphors of Writing for Women Sun, 1:30 PM, N140 Threaded Metaphors Sun, Noon, Library Sat, 1:30 PM, N133 Sun, Noon, Library Hodgell, P. C. Signing Time: Sat 3:00 PM Seymour, Rebecca Game of Thrones Panel Lewis, Elizabeth Connecting with Wisconsin Wildlife Verstraete, Christine Sun, 1:30 PM, N133 Threaded Metaphors Morris-Kennedy, Marla Sat, 9:30 AM, Hub Genre in Young Adult Science Fiction Signing Time: Sun 3:00 PM Sun, Noon, Library Threaded Metaphors Sat, 3:30 PM, Hub Sat, 1:30 PM, N140

Sun, Noon, Library Signing Time: Sat 10:45 AM Zombies Honn, Tracy Lisiecki, RaChelle Sat, 4:30 PM, N140 The Future of the Book Miss Licorice: Children’s Story Performer Muchhala, CJ Shaw, Mary Liz Sun, 1:30 PM, C101 Sat, 9:30 AM, PDR Threaded Metaphors Food in Books: A Great Discussion at the Wax, Phyllis Sat, 12:30 PM, PDR Sun, Noon, Library Book Club Threaded Metaphors

Hughes, Kathleen Sat, 2:30 PM, PDR Sat, 10:45 AM, N125 Sun, Noon, Library Threaded Metaphors Nelson, Jinn Signing Time: Sun 1:30 PM Sun, Noon, Library Livingston, Kathryn On the Shoulders of Giants: How Silver, Steven H Lilly: Palm Beach, Tropical Glamour, and Reading made a Writer How a Book Gets Made Werkman, Christopher Hurt, Jeanette the Birth of a Fashion Legend Sat, 9:30 AM, Library Sat, 10:45 AM, N140 Today’s Publishing Relationship: Publish- The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Sausage Sat, 9:30 AM, N127 Sat, 2:30 PM, Library er, Publicist, Author, Cover Artist Making Signing Time: Sat 10:45 AM Signing Time: Sat 10:30 AM Smith, Kristine Sat, 4:30 PM, N133 Sat, 9:30 AM, N125 How a Book Gets Made Signing Time: Sat 10:45 AM Lochen, Andrea Norton, Mike Sat, 10:45 AM, N140 Willingham, Bill What do Women Want: The Complexity Graphic Novels Panel Signing Time: Sat 1:30 PM Graphic Novels Panel Hurst, Craig of Writing for Women Sat, 9:30 AM, N130 Sat, 9:30 AM, N130 Windy Hill Brass Sat, 1:30 PM, N133 Zombies Stebelton, Chuck Signing Time: Sat 10:45 AM Sun, 1:30 PM, Hub Chick Lit and Women’s Fiction: Sexist Sat, 4:30 PM, N140 Poetry of Chuck Stebelton WINC Animal Ambassa- Huston, Karla Marketing Practices? Signing Time: Sat 10:45 AM and 5:30 PM Sat, 3:00 PM, C101 dors Sun, 3:00 PM, N133 The Future of the Book Poetry of: Sat, 1:30 PM, Hub Signing Time: Sat 3:00 PM, Sun 4:00 PM Nye, Jody Lynn Sun, 1:30 PM, C101 Sat, 1:30 PM, N129 Sat, 2:30 PM, Hub Steampunk Science Fiction Signing Time: Sat 4:30 PM, Sun 3:00 PM Signing Time: Sat 3:00 PM Love, Bob Sun, 3:00 PM, N130 Wuori, G.K. King, Jeff Science Fiction Gaming Signing Time: Sun 4:00 PM Stein, Jason Compressing The World Into Tiny Sat, 10:45 AM, N130 More Than They Bargained for: Scott The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Sausage Spaces: Writers of Short Fiction Signing Time: Sat 1:30 PM Padway, Helen Walker, Unions and the Fight for Making Sat, 9:30 AM, N129 Threaded Metaphors Wisconsin Sat, 9:30 AM, N125 Signing Time: Sat 10:45 AM Lowder, James Sun, Noon, Library Sat, 9:30 AM, N133 Signing Time: Sat 10:45 AM Game of Thrones and the Triumph of Phillips, Cassandra Signing Time: Sat 10:45 AM Yela, Max Klima, John Fantasy Science Fiction Archives Sept. 19, Noon, C101 Literacy Biographies You’ve Got Genre in my Literature Sullivan, Stephen Sun, Noon, N130 How a Book Gets Made Sat, 10:45 AM, N127 Game of Thrones Panel Sat, 9:30 AM, N140 Poetry People Sat, 10:45 AM, N140 Sun, 1:30 PM, N133 How a Book Gets Made Sat, 9:30 AM, C101 Zambreno, Mary Frances Game of Thrones Panel Signing Time: Sun 3:00 PM Genre in Young Adult Science Fiction Sat, 10:45 AM, N130 Sun, 1:30 PM, N133 Sat, 1:30 PM, N140 Glitter and Mayhem/Crowdfunding Posca, Deborah E. Signing Time: Sat 1:30 PM, Sun 3:00 PM Inspiration Cultivation: The Challenge of Signing Time: Sat 3:00 PM Sat, 1:30 PM, N130 Steampunk Science Fiction Writing a Sequel

10 Authors and Presenters

Mary Jo Balistreri is a musician as well as a writer. Today, poetry Sarah Busse, as she describes herself, is a flirt, a feminist, and a has become a passionate life source and a way of expressing the joy restless heart. She is also one of the two current Poets Laureates of being alive. Her poetry touches on aspects that are familiar to all of Madison, a contributing scholar to the Mezzo Cammin Women of us: family, music, art, loss. Poets Timeline project, and in addition publishes under the name Sadie Ducet. Shannon Barniskis has worked in libraries since 1994 and is currently the Director of the Lomira QuadGraphics Community Brenda Cárdenas, UW-Milwaukee English professor and 2010- Library. She consults with small public libraries on user experience 2012 Milwaukee Poet Laureate, crosses borders when she blends issues, space use, and futureplanning, and is also the co-founder of two languages, English and Spanish. These languages are mixed within the Center for Public Library Research. thoughts and even within sentences to create whole new ways of expression in her intriguing poetry, songs, and stories. Bradley P. Beaulieu is an L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Award winner and the author of the epic fantasy series The Lays of Robin Chapman, a scientist and a poet, is the author of seven Anuskaya. The series includes The Winds of Khalakovo, The Straits of books and has received two Posner Awards as well as grants from Galahesh, and The Flames of Shadam Khoreh. the Wisconsin Arts Board. Her poems have been set to music and incorporated into paintings. Chapman is Professor Emerita of Com- Raymond Benson has been an award-winning and best-selling au- municative Disorders at UW-Madison. thor, composer, stage director, film historian, computer game design- er, and much more. The fourth official author of the James Bond 007 Ching-In Chen is a multi-genre, border-crossing writer who push- novels, he is now working on his newest series, The Black Stiletto. es herself outside of her creative comfort zone. Her poems present insightful commentary on such issues as immigration, economic B J Best, Carroll University professor and poet, has taken inspira- bondage, and sexuality. She has co-edited The Revolution Starts at tion for his latest collection of prose poems from “classic” video Home: Confronting Intimate Violence within Activist Communities. games! The poems in But Our Princess is in Another Castle are often light-hearted and playful but they also explore love, loss, and Richard Chwedyk teaches both the Science Fiction Writing Work- the existence of God. shop at Columbia College in Chicago and an introductory class, Exploring Science Fiction. He has written numerous stories, poems, Bruce Bethke is best known in science fiction circles for his and articles, and has, in his words,” far too many works in progress!” genre-naming 1983 short story, “Cyberpunk,” and his award-winning 1995 novel, Headcrash. Currently editor of Stupefying Stories maga- Rod Clark’s love of literature and disdain for most literary journals zine, his real-world job is in supercomputer software development. propelled him to nurture an unconventional magazine called Rose- bud. The experiment has lasted twenty years and is still going strong. Alex Bledsoe is the author of the Eddie LaCrosse high fantasy/ Clark produces Rosebud from his 120-year-old farmhouse near hardboiled mysteries, two novels about vampires in 1975 Memphis, Rockdale, east of Madison. and the upcoming Wisp of a Thing. He grew up in Tennessee and now lives in a Wisconsin town famous for its trolls. Cathryn Cofell, a poet and tireless advocate for the arts, is co- chair of the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission and has helped Debra Brenegan teaches English and Women’s Studies at West- launch and promote many literary endeavors. She is the author of six minster College in Fulton, Missouri, and also enjoys an immense chapbooks and performs from Lip, a CD of her poems set to music. talent for engaging with history. Her recent novel, Shame the Devil, is based on the remarkable and true story of the 19th-century novelist, Claire Davis, a fiction writer, essayist, and 2012 UW-Waukesha journalist, and feminist Fanny Fern. Outstanding Alumna, is a great favorite among readers and listeners alike. Her works include Winter Range, Season of the Snake, and Rick Brooks and his friend Todd Bol created the non-profit Little Labors of the Heart. Davis currently teaches creative writing at Lew- Free Library, Ltd, in 2009 for the purpose of promoting literacy and is-Clark State College in Idaho. the love of reading by building free book exchanges worldwide. This community-building movement has had such appeal that there are Larry O. Dean is a writer, educator, singer, songwriter, produc- now over 5,000 Little Free Libraries in 36 countries! er and Poet-in-Residence in the Chicago Public Schools. He also teaches literature and composition and hosts a monthly songwriter Kathleen Bubinas, UW-Waukesha anthropology professor, will showcase, Folk You! His most recent book, Brief Nudity, was pub- bring her enthusiasm and insights on the development and socio- lished in 2013. economic impact of farmers’ markets to the Festival Cookbook Stage. Her research on ethnic economies and urban agriculture has Janet Deaver-Pack sold her first fantasy stories in the late 1980’s received national attention. and hasn’t stopped writing since. She has co-authored two role-playing game source books and two novels, written music, and edited four anthologies. Deaver-Pack is also a panelist at fantasy and science fiction conventions.

11 Authors and Presenters

M. Scott Douglass founded the Main Street Rag Publishing Amy Gutowski, a teacher in the Milwaukee Public Schools, has long Company in 1996 in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he is now the been concerned about the efficacy of testing practices in education. publisher and managing editor. He is also a graphics design artist and This led her to contribute several essays in the powerful and highly his work in both fields has earned him numerous awards. acclaimed book, Pencils Down: Rethinking High-Stakes Testing and Accountability in Public Schools. Timothy Dunn, UW-Waukesha philosophy professor, specializes in ethical theory and social and political philosophy. He has authored Lisa Hager’s current book project looks at the relationship be- several papers and created collaborative presentations on such top- tween the New Woman and the Victorian family. Assistant Professor ics as the renewed work-family debate, teaching war literature, and of English and Women’s Studies at UW-Waukesha, she is the manag- the philosophy and literature of death and dying. ing editor for the Journal of Victorian Culture Online and a member of the steampunk community. Bill Fliss, archivist of the Special Collections and University Archives at Marquette University’s Raynor Library, is in charge of the 11,000 Summer Hanford realized early in her career that her true J.R.R. Tolkien papers, the largest Tolkien collection in the world. passion was the one that occupied her childhood, writing fantasy and He will be part of a panel discussion on science fiction and fantasy science fiction. Her first novel in the Thrice Born literature series for archives. young adults, Gift of Aluien, was published in 2012.

Matt Forbeck has been creating award-winning games and fiction Mary Ellen Heus, a former chemistry teacher, dove into the since 1989, with twenty-three novels published to date. His latest world of dyes and paints on textiles when she retired. Her creative works include the Magic: The Gathering comic book, the MMOs work using fabric, color, prints, and stitches has been shown locally, Marvel Heroes and Ghost Recon Online, and the novel The Con Job nationally, and occasionally overseas. based on the TV show Leverage. P. C. Hodgell retired to take up writing full time after years of Lauren Fox is the author of critically acclaimed novels Friends Like teaching composition, literature, and creative writing at UW-Osh- Us and Still Life with Husband. Her work has appeared in The New kosh. Her critically praised fantasy saga offers high adventure but York Times, Marie Claire, Seventeen, Salon, and Psychology Today. She also deals with questions of personal identity, religion, politics, honor, says it’s good to abide by the adage “write what you know.” and arboreal drift.

Joe Foy is UW-Waukesha’s Associate Dean, a political science Tracy Honn is the Director of Silver Buckle Press, a working professor, and an author of many books and essays on popular museum of letterpress printing housed on the second floor of culture. His current research “explores the transformative power UW-Madison’s Memorial Library. Also a master printer, her work that enables popular culture to influence political agendas and create was recently featured in Design Envy as an example of “gorgeous profound shifts in values and ideals.” letterform prints.”

Ilona Fridl is the author of Silver Screen Heroes, the first book in Kathleen Hughes, a Wauwatosa quilt artist, frequently uses her Dangerous Times series. Other titles in this series include Gold- photographs printed on fabric to make her pieces very realistic. Her en North and Bronze Skies. She has also published a variety of short views are rendered in commercial fabrics, hand dyes, and whatever it stories and articles. takes to create a natural look.

Linda Godfrey, as an author and investigator, has uncovered many Craig Hurst, UW-Waukesha music professor, will add a lively note dark mysteries in Wisconsin and neighboring states. Weird Wiscon- to the Festival with his Windy Hill Brass Quartet. The quartet, he sin, Haunted Wisconsin, and Real Wolfmen are just a few of her many says, functions to educate, entertain and extend the community books about her offbeat findings. Added to this is her recent debut outreach mission of the University of Wisconsin Colleges. fantasy novel, God Johnson: The Unforgiven Diary. Jeanette Hurt, co-author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Sau- Lilly Goren, Carroll University political science professor, is an sage-Making with Jeff King, has specialized in food, wine, and travel expert on the impact of popular culture on citizenship. Her recent in her seventeen years of writing. She is a contributor for Good interest in gender and women’s studies is relevant to her 2009 book Fermentations on Milwaukee’s National Public Radio. of essays, You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby: Women, Politics & Popular Culture. Karla Huston is an award-winning local author, known for both her writing and her teaching. She currently teaches poetry writing Markelle Grabo took to reading at an early age, devouring book for adults at The Mill, a Place for Writers in Appleton, and a new after book until she decided that she wanted to be like the authors volume of her poetry will soon be published. she favored. Her first book was published in 2011, and today, at age 19, she continues to add novels to her six-part fantasy series. Chef Jeff King loves making artisan brats, kielbasas and international sausages. That passion comes through in The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Sausage-Making, the 2012 book he co-authored with Jeanette Hurt. His journeys to four continents tasting sausages and charcuterie bring an ethnic flavor to the book.

12 John Klima, assistant director of the Waukesha Public Library, edits Andrea Lochen’s first novel The Repeat Year was published in May and publishes the Hugo Award-winning genre zine Electric Veloci- 2013. Seeking to understand what differentiates general literature pede. He has also edited an anthology of science fiction and fantasy from “women’s fiction” in the minds of publishers, Lochen shares her stories based on spelling-bee winning words called Logorrhea: Good insights into marketing strategies and stereotypes common in the Words Make Good Stories. book industry. Lochen teaches English at UW-Waukesha.

Gary Kloster is a writer, a stay-at-home-father, a martial artist and Bob Love, writer and voice over director for Raven Software in a reference librarian - sometimes all in the same day, seldom all at Middleton, has worked on titles such as the X-Men Legends series, the same time. His fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Fantasy Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Wolfenstein, and Singularity. Love also Magazine, the Intergalactic Medicine Show and in Writers of the writes and directs Indie movies; currently in production is a full- Future 25. length film called Dead of the Night.

Kohl’s Wild Theater provides delightful conservation-themed James Lowder has worked extensively on both sides of the theater performances using drama, songs, and puppetry. The shows editorial blotter. As a writer, his publications include bestselling dark are performed at the Milwaukee County Zoo and in the greater fantasy novels as well as role-playing games and hundreds of feature community - and this year at the Festival of Books! articles. As an editor, Lowder has directed book lines or series and has helmed numerous critically acclaimed anthologies. Mary Robinette Kowal of Chicago is the award-winning author of Shades of Milk and Honey, Glamour in Glass, Without a Summer, Patrick Marley, a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter, co-au- and numerous short stories. She is also a professional puppeteer and thored the 2013 book More Than They Bargained For: Scott Walker, as a voice actor records fiction for other authors. Unions and the Fight for Wisconsin with Jason Stein. The work of these national award-winning writers has been called a “deeply Dean Kowalski, UW-Waukesha philosophy professor, has au- reported and illuminating book.” thored, edited, or co-edited six books, each with some connection to popular culture and philosophy. His Moral Theory at the Movies, Rebecca Mattano’s life-long passion for promoting environmen- for example, uses film summaries and classical philosophical texts to tal stewardship is evidenced in the book Connecting with Wisconsin draw students into applied ethical theory. Wildlife, co-authored with another Wildlife in Need Center vol- unteer, Rebecca Seymour. Educator and scientist as well as writer, Stephanie Lecci is an award-winning radio broadcaster and the Mattano is currently managing supervisor of the Waukesha County Coordinating Producer of the news-magazine show Lake Effect on Recycling Center. WUWM Milwaukee Public Radio. She fell in love with radio as a student while working at Northwestern University’s campus radio Holly McDowell’s interactive, digital series, King Solomon’s Wives, station and has continued in radio ever since. is a modern thriller set against a backdrop of historical conspiracy. Writing in coffee shops in her “magical city” of Chicago, McDowell Ellyn Lem is an Associate Professor of English, Honors Program lets her readers vote on the direction of her story. Coordinator, UW-Waukesha Student Veterans Advisor, coordinator of the innovative Paving the Path to College initiative, Intellectual Andrew McLean, rare books expert and book appraiser, has writ- Freedom award winner, and much more! Festival sessions on The ten The Appraiser and the Appraisal: What Makes a Book Valuable? Hunger Games series, Pop Goes the Academy, and Reading Cook- and has taught classes on the history of printing and book collecting. books as Literature add to Ellyn’s list! Audience members at his presentation may bring one book for a free verbal appraisal. Judy Zoelzer Levine is a quilt artist who has created an excep- tional body of art. Most notable is a series that portrays how the Pilar Melero, an award-winning community leader, embraces her female figure is viewed, adored, exploited, and abused. She has also culture with a contagious passion. Her fascinating life journey, from helped establish a facility in Cedarburg designed to preserve tradi- Mexico as a teenager to Professor of Spanish language and literature tional Wisconsin quilts. at UW-Whitewater, is captured in her articles, books and poems.

Elizabeth Lewis is an artist whose fiber and mixed media works Ben Merens’ new audio-book, People Are Dying to Be Heard, have been exhibited throughout the United States and in Italy. In conveys his belief that “Healthy communication is a two-way process addition to art, Lewis’s interests and professional endeavors include where listening is key to success.” A self-professed “listener in the the fields of education, writing, and wellness. moment,” Merens recently concluded 21 years in various positions at Wisconsin Public Radio. RaChelle Lisiecki, also known as Miss Licorice, recites and sings her original children’s stories while she manipulates props along a Barbara Miner brings almost 40 years of journalist and educator handmade set. The Boom Lodge has long been a favorite and Where experience to her new book, Lessons from the Heartland, a Turbu- the Favorite Things Live is due to be published in the fall. lent Half-Century of Public Education in an Iconic American City. One reviewer calls it “a compelling portrait of a city, a time and a Kathryn Livingston, a former executive editor, has pioneered place on the edge.” innovative ways of profiling the high achieving, the influential, and the privileged. Her recent biography of fashion icon Lilly Pulitzer, Lilly: Palm Beach, Tropical Glamour, and the Birth of a Fashion Legend, offers a rare glimpse into Palm Beach society.

13 Authors and Presenters

Kelly Moran says there is always a book playing out in her head. Mara Ptacek, poet and retired teacher, is a member of The Sparks, A respected reviewer, recipient of NY Times bestseller honors, and a performance group of five women poets. Her publication credits member of Romance Writers of America, her recent novels include include Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Sacred Vision, and Wiscon- The Drake House, Summer’s Road, and When the Leaves Stop sin Poets’ Calendars. She also creates handmade books and paper Falling. sculptures for her poetry.

Maria Morris-Kennedy was winner of the grand prize for the Elizabeth Ridley owns and operates The Writer’s Midwife, a Milwaukee Public Television’s Quilting is Art Competition in 2010 freelance editing and consulting business in Brookfield. Through her and 2011. She has sustained her love of fabric, color, visual texture, business she has ghostwritten more than a dozen novels, memoirs, and design for over twenty years. general nonfiction books, and feature film screenplays. In 2011 she received a Literary Artist Fellowship from the Wisconsin Arts Board. C J Muchhala’s poems have appeared in anthologies, in chapbooks, in an audio CD, and in numerous online and print publica- Ron Rindo, UW-Oshkosh English professor, has twice won the tions. The Shorewood resident has collaborated on three other Wisconsin Arts Board Creative Writing Fellowship. He has published Threaded Metaphors: Text and Textiles exhibits. three award-winning short story collections, most recently Love in an Expanding Universe, and has had nearly two dozen short stories Jinn Nelson revels in the word of fantasy fiction. Her interest in and essays published in journals and magazines. Celtic mythology, Steampunk, and portal fantasy led to her fictional excursions into other worlds and to the success of her first novel, Margaret Rozga is well known for her award-winning writing, Fear the Hunted. which includes a play and book of dramatic poems about Milwau- kee’s open housing marches. She brings to this year’s Festival an Mike Norton, a comic book artist and writer, launched his web engaging new collaborative project, Threaded Metaphors: Text and comic, Battlepug, in 2011 and won the Best Digital Comic Eisner Textiles, which presents the interactive work of six poets and six award for his sword and sorcery story. He has been selected for the fiber artists. comic book adaptation of the upcoming Young Justice series. Chuck Rybak is the author of two chapbooks, Nickel and Diming Jody Lynn Nye specializes in science fiction, fantasy action, and My Way Through and Liketown, and his new poetry collection, war, humor. Author or co-author of at least forty novels and one hundred is to be released in 2013. He is an Assistant Professor of English and short stories, she teaches the annual Science Fiction Writing Work- Humanistic Studies at UW-Green Bay. shop at DragonCon. Paul Salsini, Marquette University faculty member and journalist, Helen Padway credits poetry with opening many doors to is the author of the award-winning A Tuscan Trilogy. Salsini tells how understanding herself and her world. She has written for radio, vitally engaged he has become with the fictional characters in his appeared on television, had her poetry published in literary journals trilogy; to the extent that, as he says, “Those characters just won’t let throughout the United States, and is a member of Sparks, a writing me go!” and critiquing group. Aaron Schutz is a science fiction writer as well as Associate Cassie Phillips, UW-Waukesha English professor, has been named Professor and Educational Policy and Community Studies Chair at a Kaplan Fellow, an award given to individuals whose efforts provide UW-Milwaukee. His academic research focuses on community orga- “significant and innovative improvement of instruction or of service nizing for social change in urban communities. The League of Almost to students.” She is an advisor to the Collegiate Association of Superheroes: Stories is his latest science fiction endeavor. Women club on campus. Sam Scinta is president of Fulcrum Publishing and a lecturer in The Poetry People first met as students in UW Waukesha Con- political science at UW-La Crosse. He has worked as project editor tinuing Education poetry workshops, and have continued through for dozens of Fulcrum’s titles, including two best-selling collections the years to explore ideas, emotions, and life stories using the evoca- in the Speaker’s Corner Books series on contemporary political and tive medium of poetry. Paula Anderson, Janet Leahy, Johanna Siragusa, social issues. Katy Phillips and Paula Schulz are among the poets who’ll lead this dynamic and fast-moving session. Rebecca Seymour and her friend Rebecca Mattano, both volunteers at the Wildlife in Need Center, will soon launch their beau- Deborah Posca and Zachary Posca, a sister and brother team, tiful book, Connecting With Wisconsin Wildlife. This book will “help started writing their Tales from the Kingdome series when Debo- plant the seeds of stewardship and a lifelong love for Wisconsin’s rah was 15 and Zachary was 13. Their love of reading, writing, and magnificent natural legacy.” Seymour is a Lake Country journalist. engaging in many creative activities together led to the publication of their first novel in 2010. Mary-Liz Shaw, Milwaukee columnist and blogger, will use her love of books and food to identify food references and the role of food within three books, one of them Stewart O’Nan’s A Prayer for the Dying set in rural Wisconsin. She will talk about creating menus around book themes and periods.

14 Steven H Silver has been nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Patrick S. Tomlinson, a lifelong sci-fi fan, discovered quite by acci- Fan Writer eleven times and Best Fanzine three times. He has also dent that the best stories were not to be found on the silver screen, published his own annual fanzine, Argentus. In addition to his writing but on the gleaming white pages of books. He has recently published and editing activities, Silver is involved in running science fiction his first book, The Wererat’s Tale: The Collar of Perdition. conventions. Connie Tresch has been making art quilts since 1982. She has ex- Kristine Smith is the winner of the 2001 Campbell Award for Best hibited nationally and internationally in solo shows, juried shows, and New Writer. She has authored the Jani Kilian Science Fiction series group shows and her work is in private and institutional collections. as well as a number of short stories. Currently working on several She has participated in all four Threaded Metaphors: Text and Textiles writing projects, Smith wishes she possessed a time-turner. collaborations.

Chuck Stebelton, Literary Program Director at Woodland Pattern Carolyn Vargo is the Regional Vice President for the Wisconsin Book Center, has organized poetry marathons and Walk/Readings to Fellowship of Poets. She is also an organizer of readings at People’s showcase the diverse stories, voices, and strategies for effecting pos- Book Cooperative, a teacher of the Urban Echo Poets at the Urban itive change in communities across the country. His works include Ecology Center, a bird watcher, and a grandmother. The Platformist, Flags and Banners, and Precious. Christine A. Verstraete’s Girl Z: My Life as a Teenage Zombie, Jason Stein, award-winning Milwaukee Journal Sentinel journalist, presents a realistic view of a chaotic new world from a self-absorbed is co-author with Patrick Marley of More Than They Bargained For: teenager’s view. A favorite pastime, building dollhouses, has served as Scott Walker, Unions and the Fight for Wisconsin. The 2013 firsthand inspiration for her children’s mystery, Searching for a Starry Night: A account drew on new documents and their own years of experience Miniature Art Mystery. as Madison Bureau reporters. Phyllis Wax, a Milwaukee poet, often finds that social issues Stephen D. Sullivan, as a writer, artist, and editor, has worked provide inspiration for her work. She has collaborated in several on some of the most influential properties in the world, including: presentations with visual artists, her work has appeared in many Dungeons & Dragons, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Star Wars, and publications, both online and print, and she has been nominated for a The Simpsons. Twice he has won the Origins Award, gaming’s highest Pushcart Prize. honor, for his fantasy fiction. Christopher T. Werkman has retired from teaching to write full Lisa Terasa offers classes that explore the dynamic between food time. His stories appear in numerous literary journals and in such and literature at Mount Mary University. English Department Chair anthologies as Hannibal’s Manor and Daily Flash: 366 Days of Flash Terasa and Ellyn Lem of UW-Waukesha will show how readers can Fiction. He lives in Ohio with his partner Karen and “too many cats!” read cookbooks for their literary value and glean from them history, culture and person revelation. Bill Willingham has been writing, and occasionally drawing, funny- books for close to 30 years now. He writes prose fiction as well but Julie Tharp has truly intriguing ideas for pairing films with good is best known for the creation of at least eight comic book series. food! She will offer Dinner and a Book at the Festival Cookbook Bill lives in the wild and frosty woods of Minnesota. Stage, which is similar to the course, Dinner and a Movie, she teaches at UW-Marshfield/Wood County where she is Associate Dean G.K. Wuori, a Pushcart Prize winner and Illinois Arts Council and English Professor. Fellow, is a literary journal associate editor and writer of a column called Cold Iron. His story collection, Nude in Tub, has a cult-classic Richard Thieme, Milwaukee expert on the UFO phenomenon, following. Now That I’m Ready to Tell You Everything is his newest became interested in the subject while living in Utah in 1978. He and work. a team have authored a book with nearly 1,000 sources that documents how the military and intelligence communities responded to Max Yela chairs the Special Collections Department at the UFO’s from WWII to the present. UW-Milwaukee Libraries, and also teaches Book Arts Concepts, Book Arts Survey, Independent Reading and Research, and History Lynne M. Thomas is the Curator of Rare Books and Special of Books and Printing. He serves as the official library liaison to the Collections at Northern Illinois University. Along with the Geek Girl Department of Art & Design. Chronicles book series, Lynne is Editor-in-Chief of Apex Magazine, an online professional prose and poetry magazine of science fiction, Mary Frances Zambreno remarks that along the way to becom- fantasy, and horror. ing a writer, she became a teacher, earned a doctorate in medieval literature and learned to read six languages. Her works include Michael Damian Thomas is the Hugo Award-nominated Man- Young Adult fantasy novel A Plague of Sorcerers and its sequel Jour- aging Editor of Apex Magazine and former Associate Editor at Mad neyman Wizard. Norwegian Press. He has co-edited the Glitter & Mayhem anthology with Lynne M. Thomas and John Klima.

Amy Timberlake’s new novel One Came Home is an adventure, a mystery, and a love song to the natural world. Born in Hudson, Wis- consin, Timberlake lives in Chicago, where she is “living small town life in a big city. . . a perfect way to live.”

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