1 2017 REFLECTIONS PROGRAM OVERVIEW
CONTENTS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4 Keynote Speaker 3 Detailed Program 4-8 8:45 am–5:30 pm Exhibits and Book Sales Cookbook Stage 9 AllWriters’ Writing Workshops 9 9:00 am–4:00 pm Writer Marketplace Special Exhibit 10 Music Performance Times 11 9:00–10:00 am Breakfast Session with Student Essay Awards 11 Nickolas Butler, Hub Writer Marketplace 11 Exhibits 11 10:00–10:30 am Nickolas Butler Book Signing Live Art 12 10:30–11:30 am Author Presentations & Panels— Author Speaking/Signing Times 14 Session 1 Author and Presenter Bios 16 Festival Authors Connect to Schools 20 11:30 am–noon Book Signings with Session 1 Authors Cooperating Organizations 21 Festival Committee 21 11:30 am–1:00 pm Lunch, Hub Sponsors 22 Food Service 24 11:40 am–12:50 pm True Grit Cabaret and Map 24 Essay Contest Award Winners
1:00–2:00 pm Author Presentations & Panels— ABBREVIATION KEY: Session 2 C – Commons N – Northview 2:00–2:30 pm Book Signings with Session 2 Authors
2:30–3:30 pm Author Presentations & Panels— Session 3
3:30–4:00 pm Book Signings with Session 3 Authors THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2 4:00–5:00 pm Author Presentations & Panels— Noon “Healing through Humor; How Session 4 Theater Literally Saved My Life” with Valerie David, C101 5:00–5:30 pm Book Signings with Session 4 Authors
5:00–6:00 pm Dinner, Hub
5:00–8:30FRIDAY, pm Book NOVEMBER Sales 3 6:00–6:45 pm Special Author Presentation: Governor Martin Schreiber, N133 5:00–6:00 pm Authors and Presenters Reception Music presented by Brass and Ivory, 6:45–7:15 pm Book Signing with Governor Commons Martin Schreiber
6:30–8:00 pm Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, Keynote: 7:30–8:30 pm Theatre Presentation: The Pink Hulk The World of Nickolas Butler with Valerie David, Theatre
8–8:30 pm Nickolas Butler Book Signing 8:30–9:15 pm Talk Back with Valerie David
2 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: NICKOLAS BUTLER
The World of Nickolas Butler Friday, November 3rd, 6:30–8:00 pm • Lunt-Fontanne Theatre Welcome & Introduction: Waukesha County Executive, Paul Farrow
For our Keynote Event, Butler will read from his newest book and discuss it and his writing in general with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s book editor Jim Higgins.
Nickolas Butler is the author of the internationally best- selling novel Shotgun Lovesongs, a collection of short stories entitled Beneath the Bonfire, and The Hearts of Men which has already been long-listed for two of France's top literary awards. He is the winner of France's prestigious PAGE Prix America, the 2014 Great Lakes Great Reads Award, the 2014 Midwest Independent Booksellers Award, the 2015 Wisconsin Library Association Literary Award, the 2015 UW-Whitewater Chancellor's Regional Literary Award, and has been long-listed for the 2014 Flaherty Dunnan Award for First Novel and short-listed for France's FNAC Prix. Along the way, he has worked as: a Burger King maintenance man, a tutor, a telemarketer, a hot-dog vendor, an innkeeper (twice), an office manager, a coffee roaster, a liquor store clerk, and an author escort. His itinerant work includes: potato harvester, grape picker, and Christmas tree axe-man. His short stories, poetry, and non-fiction have appeared in: Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review Online, The Lumberyard, The Christian Science Monitor, Narrative, Sixth Finch, and several other publications.
Butler was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, raised in Eau Claire, Wisconsin and educated at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop. He lives on sixteen acres of land in rural Wisconsin adjacent to a buffalo farm. He is married and has two children.
For more information about the author, visit his website at http://www.nickolasbutler.com
TICKETED EVENT: $10 general admission • $35 general admission plus hardcover copy of The Hearts of Men Purchase online at http://bpt.me/3040884 or by mail to University of Wisconsin-Waukesha Foundation,
LECTURES & FINE ARTS: VALERIE DAVID
“Healing through Humor; How Theater Literally Saved My Life” Thursday, November 2nd, 12:00 pm • C101 Valerie David, Playwright & Actress, New York City
The Pink Hulk: One Woman’s Journey to Find the Superhero Within is Valerie David’s award-winning, autobiographical one-woman show about becoming a two-time cancer survivor. How did she survive this second bout? Through the power of humor and theater. When Valerie was diagnosed with cancer for the first time— Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in 1999, she was scared. And then when diagnosed a second time—this time breast cancer in 2014—she hulked out and fought back with humor. Valerie will document her journey with you as she used the healing superpowers of improv and laughter to help inspire her, and now she is cancer-free and thriving. And she will discuss how improv and theater used in everyday life can help you when faced with any adversarial situation. The Pink Hulk has been touring the U.S. with its message of hope and empowerment, and Valerie will also talk about how it’s been impacting audience members whether they have had an association with cancer or not. Valerie will help guide you to seek your own “hulk-like” strength to find your superhero within! Presented by UW-Waukesha Lectures & Fine Arts
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9:00–10:00 am // Keynote Breakfast Session: Nickolas Butler in Conversation with Kathie Giorgio X Hub Something just a little bit different to start your day! Join us for coffee and a breakfast treat and enjoy a friendly, thought-provoking discussion on reading and writing by seasoned authors Nickolas Butler and Kathie Giorgio.
10:00–10:30 am // Book Signing with Breakfast Keynote Author, Nickolas Butler
10:30–11:30 AM — SESSION 1 PRESENTATIONS & PANELS
Where is the Modern Day Fairy Tale? X C101 Middle Grades and Young Adult Authors X N129 Valya Dudycz Lupescu, Gary Kloster, Carrie Newberry, Barbara Britton, Tricia Clasen, Kerry Crowley Stephen Segal, John Klima The teen and young adult years are a unique time of We all recognize the images: glass slippers, poisoned change, reflection and growth. Meet three authors apples, spinning wheels, magic mirrors, and long flowing whose books vary in theme, but who share a fondness hair. Without much more information we know which for this special age. fairy tale matches each image. The stories have been told and re-told for centuries. It speaks to the power of Joyce Westerman and the All American Girls the fairy tale that these stories can be retold for each Professional Baseball League: Play Ball! X N125 generation. But what about the modern day? Where are Bob Kann the fairy tales that reflect the world around us? Or has Kenosha native Joyce Westerman played for eight years the idea of fairy tales been replaced by technology? Join in the All American Girls Professional Baseball League our panelists as we briefly discuss the history of the fairy depicted in the movie A League of Their Own. In this tale and work to uncover if this is a type of storytelling presentation, Bob shares Joyce’s stories of growing up from days gone by or if modern fairy tales exist but we during the Great Depression, working at American Motors, just can't see them. playing professional baseball, and tales of other players from his biography Joyce Westerman: Baseball Hero. Little House in Wisconsin X N130 Jim Higgins, Jennifer Van Haaften Crossing the Line: Milwaukee’s Open Discover the world of beloved author and Wisconsin Housing Marches 50 Years Later X N127 native Laura Ingalls Wilder as Festival authors pay tribute Patrick Jones, Margaret Rozga, Sheri Williams Pannell to her writing, legacy, and impact on readers of all ages. To complement the Wisconsin Historical Society’s Crossing the Lines exhibit about Milwaukee’s open Waukesha Reads!: Authors & Artists on True Grit X N140 housing marches, this panel offers the insights of a Larry Watson, Paul Colt, Page Remmers, Phil Smith participant, writer, and scholar. Playwright, director, Festival authors and artists will discuss and reflect how this and performer Sheri Williams Pannell is the author of year’s Waukesha Reads novel True Grit and author Charles Bronzeville, a play set in Milwaukee’s African American Portis played a role in their writing and artistic lives. neighborhood in the 1950s. Margaret (Peggy) Rozga, a participant in the marches, has written a play and book of poetry, 200 Nights and One Day, about that experience. Patrick Jones, professor at the University of Nebraska- Friends of Waukesha Public Library – Lincoln, authored Selma of the North, a history of the Advocating for libraries, literacy and lifelong learning. open housing campaign.
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11:30 am–noon // Book Signings with Session One Authors
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11:30 am–1:00 pm // Lunch X Hub
11:40 am–12:50 pm // Entertainment: Cabaret & Awards X C101 TRUE GRIT: A Little Fierce Cabaret with Candace Decker & Phil Smith (11:40 am–12:05 pm) CONTEST AWARDS: Century Fence Essay / Waukesha Reads! Flash Fiction contest awards (12:05–12:50 pm)
1:00–2:00 PM — SESSION 2 PRESENTATIONS & PANELS
The Poet as Historian: Pestiferous Questions X N125 The New Normal X N129 Margaret Rozga Carolyn Walker, Jesse Torrey, Mary Jo Balistreri Margaret Rozga applies poetic strategies in her rendering Authors share overcoming obstacles, navigating difficult of the life of Jessie Benton Frémont (1824-1902). Jessie medical diagnoses and celebrating triumphs through emerges as a woman who is privileged yet questions their poetry and memoirs. privilege, politically astute but disparaged for not knowing her place, a product her times and forward From Page to Stage X N130 thinking. She comes alive as a public figure. The poems Mike Lenehan, Valerie David, Gail Sterkel, Rich Perez, Steve Decker also turn to the wings to see Jessie before and after she Explore the process of how playwrights create, actors appears on the public stage. breathe life into text and directors bring the vision to fruition on the stage. All elements in theatre converge as Come Out, Come Out, Wherever, Whoever, authors and theater professionals share their passion for Whenever You Are: Teaching, Writing, and the stage. Thinking about Queer History X N127 John D’ Emilio, Víctor Macías-González, Das Janssen Keep it Focused: Writing the Short Story X N140 How do you write a history when your subjects were Chip Duncan, Christopher Werkman often fearful of discovery? How do you teach a course “Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and about those who have been for so long ignored or other minds and other dreams. They are journeys you can disparaged? How does looking back at history help us to make to the far side of the universe and still be back in question contemporary understandings and assumptions time for dinner.” —Neil Gaiman of sexuality and gender identity? This panel of pioneering Come hear reflections from two authors of recently historians and a philosopher of gender and queer studies published short story collections as they tell about their will share their insights about the challenges and joys of works and their affinity for this focused genre. uncovering our queer past.
2:00–2:30 pm // Books Signings with Session Two Authors
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2:30–3:30 PM — SESSION 3 PRESENTATIONS & PANELS
Historical Research in Writing Feeding Our Deepest Hungers: A reading from Fiction and Nonfiction X N129 Bread: A Memoir of Hunger X N130 Michael Kula, Erika Janik, Michael Leannah Lisa Knopp Heyday memories of Lauerman Brothers Department In Bread: A Memoir of Hunger, Lisa Knopp explores through Store, tales of pistols and petticoats, and dalliance research and through her personal story, the biological, and murder in Waukesha. Hear from three authors of psychological, social, cultural, spiritual, and existential historical works as they share thoughts about their works causes of the little-discussed phenomenon of eating and reflections about the research that helped their disorders and disordered eating among older women. books to be authentic and compelling. Poets Calling Attention to Nature X N140 In Grace’s Time (and in Kathie’s time too!) X N125 Georgia Ressmeyer, Rebecca Dunham Kathie Giorgio Inspired by the natural world and its implicit metaphors, In 2011, Giorgio presented her first novel at the Southeast Georgia Ressmeyer writes of and from the energy in lake Wisconsin Festival of Books. Now, she’s here with and landscapes near her Sheboygan home. When the her seventh, In Grace’s Time. Giorgio will discuss and natural world is threatened, Rebecca Dunham’s work reflect on the journey that got her through seven books, challenges us to pay attention. She brings the lyric and hundreds of stories, and many awards to the place she the pastoral tradition face to face with environmental always dreamed of. disasters including the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Playing to Win X N127 Bob Buege, Lou Banach, Joel Nellis In Borchert Field, baseball historian Bob Buege introduces the famous and fascinating athletes who dazzled audiences in Milwaukee’s venerable ballpark. Rising from a humble beginning, sports elevated Lou Banach to a gold medal in the 1984 Olympics to a successful career in banking. Joel Nellis joins Bob and Lou in talking about a book that he co-authored entitled Walk on this Way: The On-going Legacy of The Wisconsin Football Walk-On Tradition which details how athletes who were not heavily recruited learn that hard work can lead to incredible success.
3:30–4:00 pm // Book signings with Session Three Authors
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4:00–5:00 PM — SESSION 4 PRESENTATIONS & PANELS
UW Colleges NEA Big Read for Spring 2018: Writing As Affirmation XN127 The Round House, a novel by Louise Erdrich X N130 Amanda Ngoho Reavey, Margaret Noodin Julie Tharp Margaret Noodin composes her poems in Dr. Tharp will discuss Anishinaabemowin, the language of the Anishinaabe Erdrich’s crusade around people, and then translates them into English. Her work sexual violence in The raises questions about what can be translated and how Round House. She will to bend the dominant language in new directions. Poet feature background and book artist Amanda Ngoho Reavey combines lyric, on the novel which documentary, and visual poetry to investigate questions explores some of the of grief, identity, and transformation, of writing herself challenges Native American into existence. women face when it comes to sexual violence and the The Power of Reflection in Writing X N125 legal complications that Phyllis Piano make social justice so Phyllis Piano will talk about the role of experience elusive. (March and April and lessons learned in fiction writing and how she’s 2018 events for the attempted to use their power in her novels. Colleges BIG READ will include book discussions, an Ex- Fabula story-telling programming, as well as children’s Putting It Together X C101 programming revolving around Erdrich’s youth novel The UW-Waukesha Students & Faculty Birchbark House and her poetry. More information about UW-Waukesha students and Creative Writing faculty will Wisconsin Reads The Round House: An NEA Big Read is discuss the process of editing and producing a literary available in the Festival Exhibits.) magazine as well as the ever-changing climate of the publishing market. Beyond the Whodunit: Creating Reflective Real Characters in Mystery Fiction X N129 Connie Chappell, Michael Giorgio Mystery fiction is, by necessity, plot-heavy, but does that mean its authors can’t create real characters who face internal struggles while solving external problems? Absolutely not. Join us to find out how getting inside characters’ minds, hearts, and souls makes a mystery plot even more mysterious and intriguing.
5:00–5:30 pm // Book Signings with Session Four Authors
5:00–6:00 pm // Dinner Break X Hub
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SPECIAL EVENT: GOV. MARTIN SCHREIBER
6:00–6:45 pm // Governor Martin Schreiber X N133 My Two Elaines: Learning, Coping, and Surviving as an Alzheimer’s Caregiver Alzheimer’s disease creeps slowly into a person’s life but never retreats. Eventually, the individual’s memory fails in too many important areas, and someone must keep watch. Round-the-clock care is needed, and that invariably falls to the one who cares most—one’s partner. Former governor of Wisconsin Marty Schreiber has seen his beloved wife, Elaine, gradually transform from the woman who had gracefully entertained in the Executive Residence to one who sometimes no longer recognizes him as her husband. In My Two Elaines: Learning, Coping, and Surviving as an Alzheimer’s Caregiver, Marty candidly Governor Martin Schreiber counsels those taking on this caregiving role. More than an account of Marty’s struggles in caring for his wife, My Two Elaines also offers sage advice that respects the one with Alzheimer’s while maintaining the caregiver’s health. As two-thirds of those with Alzheimer’s are women, he offers special guidance for men thrust into an unexpected job. With patience, adaptability, and even a sense of humor, Marty shows how love continues for his Second Elaine.
6:45–7:15 pm // Book signing with Gov. Martin Schreiber
SPECIAL EVENT: THE PINK HULK
7:30–8:30 pm // The Pink Hulk X Theatre Diagnosis: Cancer, the Cure: Fight Back! Written and Performed by Valerie David; Directed by Padraic Lillis 60-minute solo show, mature content Tickets $10: http://bpt.me/3058750 The Pink Hulk: One Woman’s Journey to Find the Superhero Within is Valerie David’s award-winning hilarious and moving journey about becoming a two-time cancer survivor, kicking cancer to the curb TWICE while she embarks on a hijinks, nonstop quest for love and new meaning in her life! Valerie is stopped in her tracks when she feels a lump. Having beaten lymphoma earlier in life, she is now diagnosed with breast cancer. And what
Valerie David does Valerie do when she learns of this second cancer diagnosis? Well, afraid of losing “the girls,” she takes them out for one last hurrah! And does Valerie succeed? Come see the show to find out! This sexy, adventurous solo show follows the triumphant journey of one woman seeking her own “hulk-like” strength to find her superhero within! A true and inspiring story.
8:30 pm // Talk Back with Valerie David X Theatre Artwork by Rebecca Kalant rebeccakalant.com 8 COOKING STAGE: KYLE CHEREK
From the Ground Up Saturday, November 4th, 2:30 pm • Hub Stage Kyle Cherek Food has shaped humankind since the dawn of civilization, influencing economies, religions, societal structures, and physical evolution. Kyle Cherek, host of the Emmy-winning television show Wisconsin Foodie, chronicles the fascinating tale of how food has formed us across the millennia and what our choices today mean for the future.
Armchair Interview th Cooking Demonstration with Host of Saturday, November 4 , 4:00 pm • Hub Stage Kyle Cherek, Jeanette Hurt Wisconsin Foodie, Kyle Cherek Saturday, November 4th, 1:00 pm • Hub Stage Kyle Cherek interviews Wisconsin food writer Jeannette Kyle Cherek Hurt. An award-winning author who specializes in food, wine, Join us for a cooking demonstration featuring a recipe cocktails, and travel, Jeannette also writes about design, pets from a seminal cookbook that has influenced Kyle’s and parenting issues. Drink Like a Woman is her ninth book. personal cooking style.
ALLWRITERS’ WORKSHOPS
How to Write Poetry How to Write Creative Nonfiction: Memoir and Essay Saturday, November 4th, 10:30 am • N133 Saturday, November 4th, 3:30 pm • N133 Shaindel Beers Carolyn Walker How do poets paint scenes so vivid, elicit stirrings so Our writing reflects our experiences, our values, and deep, and invite our minds to reflect so freely – all while ourselves – perhaps none more than creative nonfiction. employing a mere handful of meticulously chosen words? How do writers convey their personal experiences in a way Join published poet and AllWriters’ faculty member, that grips readers and makes a difference in their lives? Shaindel Beers, as she shares some techniques and Join award-winning author and AllWriters’ faculty member, strategies that will encourage you to explore and to Carolyn Walker, as she shares ideas you can put into improve your own poetic expression. practice to make your own stories even more compelling.
How to Write Fiction Marketing 101: Books! Saturday, November 4th, 1:00 pm • N133 Saturday, November 4th, 4:00 pm • N133 Carrie Newberry Kathie Giorgio Where do fictional prose writers get those ideas? Is it still possible in today’s chaotic publishing industry Sometimes realistic, sometimes fantastical, stories are to be traditionally published? You bet. Learn how from born in the minds of their creators. How do fiction the instructor who has guided almost 100 authors to writers tie it all together and transport us with them, successful contracts in the last three years. as readers, into the worlds they have created? Join published author and AllWriters’ faculty member, Carrie Newberry, to learn strategies for writing works of fiction that are creative and compelling.
9 SPECIAL EXHIBIT: CROSSING THE LINE
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10 MUSICAL PROGRAMS
Authors and Presenters Reception Music Friday, November 3rd, 5:00 pm
Brass and Ivory is the piano/trumpet duo of Craig W. Hurst and Nancy L. Van Brunt. Brass and Ivory provide subtle, sophisticated live music drawing upon the repertoire of The Great American Songbook, jazz, and contemporary artists such as Stevie Wonder and Billy Joel.
True Grit: A Little Fierce Cabaret Saturday, November 4th, 11:40 am • C101
To carry our literary endeavor over the lunch hour, we will have an original cabaret inspired by themes and characters of True Grit, created and performed by Candace Decker and Phil Smith.
ESSAY AWARDS
Essay Contest Awards Ceremony Saturday, November 4th, 12:05 pm • C101
Following the cabaret, the winners of the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books writing contests in all categories will be recognized.
The Century Fence Student Essay Contest is open to all middle and high school students. It extends the educational reach of the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books to younger readers. Students were asked to write an essay about this year’s theme, Reflections.
Waukesha Reads!: The Big Read Flash Fiction Contest will be awarding prizes in three participating categories: middle school students, high school students and adults. A winner and a runner-up will be announced in each category.
WRITER MARKETPLACE EXHIBITS
A Writer Marketplace continues this year to include Publishers, authors, literary organizations and more writers who publish their own books. The writers booksellers will be featured in the Exhibits area. Look are available to talk to Festival goers and sell and sign for artisan products for sale as well. Visit the booths their books in the Writer Marketplace. The Marketplace Saturday, 8:45 am–5:30 pm. Listing and location of is located in the Commons Hallway. It will be open from exhibit booths can be found at www.sewibookfest.com 9:00 am–4:00 pm on Saturday. For a complete list of authors and times, visit www.sewibookfest.com
11 LIVE ART
Live Art Saturday, November 4th, 1o:00 am–3:00 pm
Join UW-Waukesha Professor of Art Barbara Reinhart, along with college art club students for a Reflections Doodle Bookmark Workshop on Saturday, November 3rd from 10:00am–12:30 pm. FREE.
Waukesha Catholic School System 7th graders will be joining us at the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books during the day on Saturday. Along with their teachers Rose Lange and Jan O’Brien, the students will be displaying their Art Journaling work at the Festival of Books from 12:30–1:30 pm.
Try your hand at the Art Journaling Workshop from 1:30–3:00 pm. $12 fee includes notebook. Room C158
You may pay and register for the Art Journaling Workshop online at http://bpt.me/3058736 or send a check to the UW-Waukesha Foundation. Space is limited to 12.
Plan on stopping by Live Art to engage with all our artists’ creations and help nurture young artists through community support and conversation.
FRIENDS OF THE FESTIVAL
Become a Friend of the Festival You can help the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books promote literacy in Southeast Wisconsin by becoming a Friend of the Festival. Your tax-deductible donation helps defray Festival expenses and:
• Promotes literacy • Celebrates literature and the arts • Increases awareness of UW-Waukesha as a learning resource • Supports authors with community exposure • Attracts youth to the potential of the written word • Provides intergenerational learning in an affordable public event
Basic membership is $30 per year for an individual and $50 per year for a household. Membership provides a number of benefits including invitations to special member-only events.
Join by sending your donation to Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books, UW-Waukesha Foundation, 1500 N. University Dr., Waukesha, WI 53188 or visit the UW-Waukesha Foundation booth in the exhibit area.
12 AUTHORS REFLECT ON OUR FESTIVAL THEME
Governor Martin J. Schreiber: As I reflect on my experience of writing my book – and now sharing it with so many Alzheimer’s caregivers – I realize how fortunate I was to have found my wife’s diaries and notes. Until I read them, I had no idea of the courage it takes to face an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. Her words drove home the importance of the caregiver taking care of himself because the person with dementia so very much needs someone to depend on. Every time she had a kind word about me, it demonstrated that, despite her struggles, she was still a compassionate and caring person. Learning what was in her heart was the most fulfilling aspect of putting the book together.
Kerry Crowley: Whether an actual image in a mirror or the smooth glasslike surface of crystal clear lake on a calm day or a quiet time spent considering the past, reflections give us glimpses of ourselves. As a writer, I spend a lot of time reflecting. I reflect on my childhood and the time I spent raising my two children to bring life to my stories. I also reflect on the impact my writing may have on my young readers. While I always strive to entertain them, I also hope I will cause them to reflect on the broader themes in my stories such as friendship and family relationships. Reflections help us examine ourselves and ideally to grow.
Michael Leannah: To me, all writing is reflecting. We writers see something, hear something, experience something, and we spin it back to our readers with a unique interpretation of what occurred and — maybe — an idea for what ought to occur next. So, a writer seen sitting and staring into space is not just sitting and staring into space. He is thinking. He is reflecting. He is getting ready to write.
Jesse Torrey: As much as we prepare and plan, we never know exactly how our lives will look until they unfold. As a young woman, my life did seem to be marching up the path I had expected. I married young to a great man, had two beautiful children and was enjoying a career as a photographer. Nothing was amiss until suddenly my perfect fairy-tale life began to unravel. My son, just eight-years-old, received a diagnosis that would forever change every part of my life and our family. I kept a journal as we went through our journey through terrifying medical challenges, life-altering disabilities and finally as our family reached a place of acceptance. When I sat down to write Smiles and Duct Tape, I decided to use the journal as the foundation for the narrative. It was hard to relive the words I wrote during this period, but upon reflection I realized that although this is not the life I ever imagined, we’ve made it work. THAT is our story.
Bob Kann: As an author of several Badger Biographies for children and histories of health care organizations and a public library for adults, this year’s conference theme Reflections reminds me of one of my favorite pastimes I undertake in association with each of these writing projects. I like to engage in what the English historian E.H. Carr called “an unending dialogue between the past and the present.” I ask myself questions to try to understand what was and what might have been. How did the people whose lives I’m chronicling address the problems they faced in a world very different than it is today? What’s their legacy for my contemporaries and myself? I also indulge in the tantalizing topic “what if...” as I ponder how different events might have altered their lives and accomplishments. Reflections are how I make sense of what I learned through historical research and the questions I was unable to answer.
Connie Chappell: Everyone peers into that rippling stream of life at one time or another. That stream carries an inherent power to swirl, swirl, swirl our memories back to the surface. All kinds. From every possible hidden niche. We slip easily through the portals of our own eyes into a world where the heart works in concert with the soul—or where one might just as likely be pitted against the other. In reviving its memories, the mind, hampered by the passage of time, can distort or embellish. How are we to know? If we’re lucky, the memory brings the curl of a smile. Always, one reality remains: A reflection of our own face lives among the memories.
13 SPEAKING AND SIGNING TIMES
Balistreri, Mary Jo Clasen, Tricia Dunham, Rebecca The New Normal Middle Grades and Poets Calling Attention to Nature Saturday 1:00–2:00 pm X N129 Young Adult Authors Saturday 2:30–3:30 pm X N140 Signing time: Sat 2:00–2:30 pm Saturday 10:30–11:30 am X N129 Signing time: Sat 3:30–4:00 pm Signing time: Sat 11:30–Noon Banach, Lou Giorgio, Kathie Playing to Win Colt, Paul In Grace’s Time (and in Kathie’s time too!) Saturday 2:30–3:30 pm X N127 Waukesha Reads!: Saturday 2:30–3:30 pm X N125 Signing time: Sat 3:30–4:00 pm Authors & Artists on True Grit Signing time: Sat 3:30–4:00 pm Saturday 10:30–11:30 am X N140 Marketing 101: Books! Signing time: Sat 11:30–Noon Beers, Shaindel Saturday 4:00–5:00 pm X N133 How to Write Poetry Signing time: Sat 5:00–5:30 pm Saturday 10:30–11:30 am X N133 Crowley, Kerry Signing time: Sat 11:30–Noon Middle Grades and Giorgio, Michael Young Adult Authors Beyond the Whodunit: Creating Reflective Saturday 10:30–11:30 am X N129 Britton, Barbara Real Characters in Mystery Fiction Signing time: Sat 11:30–Noon Middle Grades and Saturday 4:00–5:00 pm X N129 Young Adult Authors Signing time: Sat 5:00–5:30 pm Saturday 10:30–11:30 am X N129 David, Valerie Signing time: Sat 11:30–Noon Lecture, The Pink Hulk Higgins, Jim Thursday 12:00–1:00 pm X C101 The World of Nickolas Butler Buege, Bob From Page to Stage Friday 6:30–8:00 pm X Playing to Win Saturday 1:00–2:00 pm X N130 Lunt–Fontanne Theatre Saturday 2:30–3:30 pm X N127 Signing time: N/A Performance, The Pink Hulk Signing time: Sat 3:30–4:00 pm Saturday 7:30–8:30 pm X Theatre Little House in Wisconsin Talk Back Saturday 10:30–11:30 am X N130 Signing time: Sat. 11:30–Noon Butler, Nickolas Saturday 8:50–9:15 pm X Theatre Friday Keynote Friday 6:30–8:00 pm X Hurt, Jeanette Lunt–Fontanne Theatre Decker, Candace Armchair Interview Signing time: Fri 8:00–8:30 pm True Grit Cabaret Saturday 4:00–5:00 pm X Hub Stage Saturday 11:40 am–12:05 pm X C101 Breakfast Keynote Signing time: Sat 5:00–5:30 pm Saturday 9:00–10:00 am X Hub Stage Signing time: Sat 10:00–10:30 am Decker, Steven From Page to Stage Janik, Erika Historical Research in Saturday 1:00–2:00 pm X N130 Chappell, Connie Writing Fiction and Nonfiction Beyond the Whodunit: Creating Reflective Saturday 2:30–3:30 pm X N129 Real Characters in Mystery Fiction D’Emilio, John Signing time: Sat 3:30–4:00 pm Saturday 4:00–5:00 pm X N129 Come Out, Come Out, Wherever, Whoever, Signing time: Sat 5:00–5:30 pm Whenever You Are: Teaching, Writing, and Thinking about Queer History Janssen, Das Come Out, Come Out, Wherever, Whoever, Saturday 1:00–2:00 pm X N127 Cherek, Kyle Signing time: Sat 2:00–2:30 pm Whenever You Are: Teaching, Writing, and Cooking Demonstration with Host Thinking about Queer History of Wisconsin Foodie, Kyle Cherek Saturday 1:00–2:00 pm X N127 Saturday 1:00–2:00 pm X Hub Stage Dudycz Lupescu, Valya Signing time: Sat 2:00–2:30 pm Signing time: Sat 2:00–2:30 pm Where is the Modern Day Fairy Tale? Saturday 10:30–11:30 am X C101 From the Ground Up Signing time: Sat 11:30am–Noon Jones, Patrick Saturday 2:30–3:30 pm X Hub Stage Crossing the Line: Milwaukee’s Open Signing time: Sat 3:30–4:00 pm Housing Marches 50 Years Later Duncan, Chip Saturday 10:30–11:30 am X N127 Armchair Interview Keep it Focused: Writing the Short Story Signing time: Sat. 11:30–Noon Saturday 4:00–5:00 pm X Hub Stage Saturday 1:00–2:00 pm X N140 Signing time: Sat 5:00–5:30 pm Signing time: Sat 2:00–2:30 pm Kann, Bob Joyce Westerman and the All American Girls Professional Baseball League: Play Ball! Saturday 10:30–11:30 am X N125 Signing time: Sat. 11:30–Noon
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Klima, John Noodin, Margaret Sterkel, Gail Where is the Modern Day Fairy Tale? Writing As Affirmation From Page to Stage Saturday 10:30–11:30 am X C101 Saturday 4:00–5:00 pm X N127 Saturday 1:00–2:00 pm X N130 Signing time: Sat. 11:30am–Noon Signing time: Sat 5:00–5:30 pm Tharp, Julie Kloster, Gary Perez, Rich UW Colleges NEA Big Read for Where is the Modern Day Fairy Tale? From Page to Stage Spring 2018: The Round House, Saturday 10:30–11:30 am X C101 Saturday 1:00–2:00 pm X N130 a novel by Louise Erdrich Signing time: Sat 11:30am–Noon Saturday 4:00–5:00 pm X N130 Piano, Phyllis Knopp, Lisa The Power of Reflection in Writing Torrey, Jesse Feeding Our Deepest Hungers: Saturday 4:00–5:00 pm X N125 The New Normal A reading from Bread: A Memoir of Hunger Signing time: Sat 5:00–5:30 pm Saturday 1:00–2:00 pm X N129 Saturday 2:30–3:30 pm X N130 Signing time: Sat 2:00–2:30 pm Signing time: Sat 3:30–4:00 pm Remmers, Page Waukesha Reads!: UW–Waukesha Kula, Michael Authors & Artists on True Grit Students & Faculty Historical Research in Saturday 10:30–11:30 am X N140 Putting It Together Writing Fiction and Nonfiction Saturday 4:00–5:00 pm X C101 Saturday 2:30–3:30 pm X N129 Ressmeyer, Georgia Signing time: Sat 3:30–4:00 pm Poets Calling Attention to Nature Van Haaften, Jennifer Saturday 2:30–3:30 pm X N140 Little House in Wisconsin Leannah, Michael Signing time: Sat 3:30–4:00 pm Saturday 10:30–11:30 am X N130 Historical Research in Signing time: Sat 11:30–Noon Writing Fiction and Nonfiction Rozga, Margaret (Peggy) Saturday 2:30–3:30 pm X N129 Crossing the Line: Milwaukee’s Open Signing time: Sat 3:30–4:00 pm Walker, Carolyn Housing Marches 50 Years Later The New Normal Saturday 10:30–11:30 am X N127 Saturday 1:00–2:00 pm X N129 Lenehan, Michael Signing time: Sat 11:30–Noon Signing time: Sat 2:00–2:30 pm From Page to Stage The Poet as Historian: Saturday 1:00–2:00 pm X N130 How to Write Creative Nonfiction: Pestiferous Questions Signing time: Sat 2:00–2:30 pm Memoir and Essay Saturday 1:00–2:00 pm X N125 Saturday 2:30–3:30 pm X N133 Signing time: Sat 2:00–2:30 pm Signing time: Sat 3:30–4:00 pm Macias–Gonzales, Victor Come Out, Come Out, Wherever, Whoever, Schreiber, Martin Whenever You Are: Teaching, Writing, and Watson, Larry My Two Elaines: Learning, Coping, and Waukesha Reads!: Thinking about Queer History Surviving as an Alzheimer’s Caregiver Saturday 1:00–2:00 pm X N127 Authors & Artists on True Grit Saturday 6:00–6:45 pm X N133 Signing time: Sat 2:00–2:30 pm Saturday 10:30–11:30 am X N140 Signing time: Sat 6:45–7:15 pm Signing time: Sat 11:30–Noon Nellis, Joel Segal, Stephen Werkman, Christopher Playing to Win Where is the Modern Day Fairy Tale? Saturday 2:30–3:30 pm X N127 Keep it Focused: Writing the Short Story Saturday 10:30–11:30 am X C101 Signing time: Sat 3:30–4:00 pm Saturday 1:00–2:00 pm X N140 Signing time: Sat 11:30am–Noon Signing time: Sat 2:00–2:30 pm
Newberry, Carrie Smith, Phil Where is the Modern Day Fairy Tale? Williams Pannell, Sheri Waukesha Reads!: Authors & Artists on Crossing the Line: Milwaukee’s Open Saturday 10:30–11:30 am X C101 True Grit Signing time: Sat. 11:30am–Noon Housing Marches 50 Years Later Saturday 10:30–11:30 am X N140 Saturday 10:30–11:30 am X N127 How to Write Fiction True Grit Cabaret Signing time: Sat 11:30 am–Noon Saturday 1:00–2:00 pm X N133 Saturday 11:40 am–12:05 pm X C101 Signing time: Sat 2:00–2:30 pm
Ngoho Reavey, Amanda Writing As Affirmation Saturday 4:00–5:00 pm X N127 Signing time: Sat 5:00–5:30 pm
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Lynne Austin lives in Waukesha, Wisconsin, with her Kyle Cherek is host of the Emmy-winning television husband. She has four grown children who surround her show Wisconsin Foodie, currently in its 9th season on with love and continue to be a source of delight. Lynne PBS and broadcast primetime to millions of households. has been writing all of her life—poetry, stories and now His widely-acclaimed video web series, Chef Talk with books. She draws from her experience as a registered Kyle Cherek, features candid, forthright and often nurse, holistic practitioner, and spiritual teacher. amusing conversations with some of America’s most engaging chefs. As a culinary historian, food enthusiast, Mary Jo Balistreri is the author of two poetry collections, and storyteller, Kyle explores where our food comes from Joy in the Morning and Gathering the Harvest (Bellowing and how it shapes who we are. Ark Press); a chapbook, Best Brothers (Tiger’s Eye Press). She has 12 Pushcart nominations and four Best of the Net. Tricia Clasen is a Professor of Communications at Balistreri is a founding member of Grace River Poets, an UW-Rock County. In 2016, Sky Pony Press published her outreach for women’s shelters, churches, and schools. debut novel, The Haunted House Project. She also co- edited Gendered Identities: Critical Readings of Gender in Lou Banach is a Banking Executive and an Olympic Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Routledge (2016). Gold Medalist. He is the author of The New Breed: Living Iowa Wrestling and Uncommon Bonds: A Journey Paul Colt’s critically acclaimed first book, Grasshoppers in Optimism. Banach is a veteran and serves on the in Summer, received Finalist recognition in the Western Advisory Board of Midwest Athletes against Childhood Writers of America 2009 Spur Awards. Boots and Cancer Fund (MACC Fund). Saddles: A Call to Glory received the Marilyn Brown Novel Award, presented by Utah Valley University. Shaindel Beers is the author of two full-length poetry collections, A Brief History of Time (2009) and The Kerry Crowley is the author of the middle-grade Children’s War and Other Poems (2013), both from Salt series, The Adventures of Mucus Phlegmball, released in Publishing. She lives and teaches in Pendleton, Oregon, paperback by MuseItUp Publishing in December 2016. She and serves as poetry editor of Contrary Magazine. is a member of AllWriter’s Workplace and Workshop and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. Barbara M. Britton lives in Wisconsin and writes Christian fiction for teens and adults. She has a nutrition John D’Emilio is a pioneering historian of sexuality. His degree from Baylor University but loves to dip healthy books include Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in strawberries in chocolate. Barb brings little known Bible America, and Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The characters to light in her Tribes of Israel series. Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States. He taught for many years at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Bob Buege is the author of Borchert Field: Stories from Milwaukee’s Legendary Ballpark; The Milwaukee Valerie David wrote her one-woman play The Pink Hulk Braves: A Baseball Eulogy; and Eddie Mathews and the in 2015 after surviving two bouts with cancer. Her play National Pastime. He is president of the Milwaukee has been nominated for and a recipient of a number of Braves Historical Association, director of the Wisconsin prestigious performance awards, including the Queen’s Old Time Ballplayers Association, and a member of the Medal for Valour by the SaraSolo Festival, the Best Society for American Baseball Research. Survivor Award in the Pittsburgh Fringe Festival, and Congeniality and Planet Activist awards. Connie Chappell is the author of two works of literary fiction: her award-winning debut novel, Wild Raspberries Candace Decker has performed her one-woman cabarets and its sequel, Proper Goodbye. She also writes Wrenn throughout the mid-west and east coast. This is her 6th Grayson Mysteries. Deadly Homecoming at Rosemont year collaborating with Phil Smith and performing a and Designs on Ivy’s Locket are available. The series’ third Waukesha Reads! Cabaret. She is a NY Cabaret Symposium mystery is on the way. Fellow, an Indiana Arts and Wisconsin Laird Foundation artist grant recipient and guest cabaret artist with the Virginia State Thespian Conference.
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Steve Decker is an Associate Professor in Communication Jeanette Hurt is an award-winning author and writer and Theatre Arts and the Director of Theatre at UW- who specializes in food, wine, cocktails, and travel. She Waukesha. He has served on scholarly panels at the also writes about design, pets and parenting issues, but Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) and the she can never resist telling a good story, no matter what Midwest Theatre Association (MTA), and he has directed the subject matter. Drink Like a Woman is her ninth book. many successful new plays in Chicago and Indiana. Erika Janik is a writer, historian, and the executive Chip Duncan has directed more than 40 long-form producer of Wisconsin Life on WPR. She’s the author of documentaries for international broadcast. His non- six books, including Pistols and Petticoats and A Short fiction books include Enough To Go Around and The History of Wisconsin. Magic Never Ends – The Life & Work of C.S. Lewis. Duncan’s fiction collection, Half A Reason To Die, was Das Janssen is a specialist in Phenomenology and released in April 2017. Gender Studies. His recent book, Phenomenal Gender: What Transgender Experience Discloses, addresses Rebecca Dunham has published four books of poetry, the question of how trans experience informs our most recently COLD PASTORAL (Milkweed Editions, understanding what it means to be gendered humans. 2017). She’s received fellowships from the NEA and Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Her poems have Patrick Jones is Associate Professor of History and appeared in AGNI, FIELD, and Kenyon Review, among Ethnic Studies at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He others. She is Professor of English at UW-Milwaukee. earned his B.A. in American History, Politics and Society from Kenyon College and his Ph.D. in modern U.S. History Kathie Giorgio’s fourth novel, In Grace’s Time, will be and African American Studies from the UW-Madison. released in September 2017. She is also the critically Harvard University published his award-winning book, acclaimed author of three novels, two story collections The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in and a poetry chapbook. She is the owner of AllWriters’ Milwaukee, in 2009. Workplace & Workshop. Bob Kann is the author of several Badger Biographies, Michael Giorgio lives in Waukesha with his wife, author histories of health care organizations and the Madison Kathie Giorgio, and their daughter Olivia. In addition to his two Public Library, and best practices manuals for assisted novels, his fiction has appeared internationally in magazines living residences. He is also a storyteller, juggler, and and anthologies. He teaches at AllWriters’ Workplace and magician who performs throughout the United States. Workshop, in their Waukesha studio and online. John Klima is the assistant director at a large public Colleen June Glatzel is a writer from Waukesha, WI. She library. Klima edited the Hugo-Award winning speculative writes mostly fiction but is interested in exploring other fiction magazine Electric Velocipede from 2001–2013. He categories now that her first book, Hey, Joey Journal, is and his family live in the Midwest. published. When Colleen isn’t writing, she deals antiques, acts, makes collages, paints and spends time with her family. Gary Kloster is a writer, a stay-at-home father, a librarian, and a martial artist. Sometimes all in the same day, seldom Jim Higgins is the arts and books editor for the all in the same moment. Much of his short fiction is Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. His book Wisconsin Literary available online, and his book Firesoul is out now. Luminaries pays tribute to the excellence and variety of Wisconsin writing through appreciations of ten authors: Lisa Knopp is the author of six books of creative Laura Ingalls Wilder, Aldo Leopold, Thornton Wilder, nonfiction. Her most recent, Bread: A Memoir of Hunger Lorine Niedecker, Cordwainer Smith, Ellen Raskin, Larry (University of Missouri Press 2016), explores eating Watson, Jane Hamilton, Michael Perry, and Ayad Akhtar. disorders and disordered eating among older women. Knopp is a Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Omaha.
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Jim Landwehr enjoys writing creative non-fiction, Carrie Newberry’s first novel, published this year, is an fiction, and poetry. His first book, Dirty Shirt: A Boundary urban fantasy called Pick Your Teeth With My Bones. In Waters Memoir was published by eLectio Publishing 2016, she joined the faculty at AllWriters’ Workplace and in 2014. He also has two published poetry collections, Workshop, where she teaches an online weekly book- Reciting from Memory and Written Life. His non-fiction writing workshop. Carrie lives in Madison, Wisconsin, has been published in Main Street Rag, Prairie Rose with a greedy terrier and a cock-a-poo who’s an Publications, Boundary Waters Journal, Forge Journal, obnoxiously persistent morning person. MidWest Outdoors Magazine and others. Jan O’Brien is a classroom teacher with 28 years of Rose Lange is a professional art educator with 23 years experience, and a recipient of the Kohl Fellowship experience teaching grades 1–12 and an artist living and Award in 2015. She is also a reading and writing teacher working in Waukesha, Wisconsin. She is a member of the who believes in embracing and inspiring the power of Waukesha West End Artist group and The Springs Art creativity and self-expression through art and writing! studio and Gallery since January 2015. Rose received a BA in Art Education from the University of Wisconsin - Amanda Ngoho Reavey is a Philippine-born, Wisconsin- Madison in 1987 and continuing education classes from raised poet interested in the myths we create when the many local universities. myths we have no longer sustain us. She is the author of Marilyn, winner of the 2017 Best Book Award in Poetry Michael Leannah writes fiction and nonfiction for children from the Association for Asian American Studies. and adults. Something for Everyone is an award-winning history of a Wisconsin department store. His children’s Margaret Noodin is an Associate Professor at the picture books include Most People and Goodnight University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the author of Whispers. Leannah is the creator of We Think with Ink, an Bawaajimo: A Dialect of Dreams in Anishinaabe Language instruction manual for teachers. He lives in Sheboygan. and Literature and Weweni, a collection of bilingual poems in Ojibwe and English. To see and hear current Michael Lenehan, the former editor of the Chicago projects visit www.ojibwe.net Reader, has written for the Atlantic, Chicago Magazine, and the New York Times, among others, and is the author Richard Perez works nationally as an actor, director and of Much Ado: A Summer with a Repertory Theater educator with an emphasis on new play development. Company and Ramblers: Loyola Chicago 1963—The Team He is the former Artistic Director of The Bloomington That Changed the Color of College Basketball. Playwrights Project in Indiana, Associate Artistic Director of Chicago Dramatists and Managing Director of Hope Valya Dudycz Lupescu is the author of the novel The Summer Repertory Theatre in Michigan. Silence of Trees and founding editor of Conclave: A Journal of Character. Her newest book, Geek Parenting: What Phyllis Piano is the award-winning author of Hostile Joffrey, Jor-El, Maleficent, and the McFlys Teach Us about Takeover: A Love Story, and Love Reconsidered, Raising a Family was co-written with Stephen H. Segal. published in August, 2017. Piano, a Milwaukee native, world traveler, and former corporate communications Víctor M. Macías-González is Professor of History and executive, is finishing her next book on three continents. Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. He is a scholar of class, gender, and Barbara Reinhart is Professor of Art and has taught sexuality in modern Mexico. His service and outreach activities students the joys of art for over 20 years at UW-Waukesha. focus on closing the achievement gap in higher education. Page Remmers is the founder and Executive Director Joel Nellis was a walk-on tight end for the Badgers of Waukesha Community Arts Project, a nonprofit from 2001-2006. He earned a scholarship his final two providing free after school programs for middle school seasons, lettering his senior season while contributing on and high school students in Drama, Visual Arts, Dance, special teams. Nellis, a Madison native, earned his degree and Creative Writing. in Kinesiology and is currently a PE teacher and football coach at Brookfield Central High School.
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Georgia Ressmeyer, a Pushcart Prize nominee, is the Nancy L. Van Brunt is Professor Emerita of Music author of an award-winning chapbook Today I Threw My having capped a 35-year career teaching in the Watch Away (Finishing Line Press) and two full-length University of Wisconsin Colleges. Her husband, Craig poetry books, Waiting to Sail (Black River Press) and W. Hurst, retired this past June after 24 years of Home/Body (Pebblebrook Press). teaching for the UW Colleges.
Margaret Rozga has published four books of poetry, Jennifer Van Haaften was Associate Director of including Pestiferous Questions: A Life in Poems. She Historical Programs and Resources at Old World has work included in many literary journals and has Wisconsin from 2005-2015, where she directed the been artist-in-residence at the Ragdale Foundation, annual month-long World of Little House event, giving the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and the American every visitor a chance to live like Laura. Antiquarian Society. Carolyn Walker, MFA, is the author of Every Least Former Governor Martin J. Schreiber is Wisconsin’s Sparrow (Garn Press), a memoir about raising her leading crusader for Alzheimer’s caregivers. His book, daughter Jennifer, who has Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome. My Two Elaines: Learning, Coping, and Surviving as an A Kresge Fellow in the Literary Arts, she is also an Alzheimer’s Caregiver, details his ongoing, 10-plus-year essayist and poet and a teacher of creative writing. journey as caregiver and is winning acclaim throughout Wisconsin and beyond. Larry Watson received his BA and MA from the University of North Dakota, and his Ph.D. from the Stephen H. Segal is the coauthor of the books Geek University of Utah. He is the author of Montana 1948, Wisdom and Geek Parenting. He is the former editorial White Crosses, Orchard, Let Him Go, As Good As Gone, director of Weird Tales Magazine and the current senior and other novels, as well the story collection Justice and editor at Legacy.com. A native of Atlantic City, he now the chapbook of poetry Leaving Dakota. Watson teaches lives in Chicago. writing and literature at Marquette University.
Phil Smith is a Menomonee Falls native and Carroll Christopher Werkman lives north of Bowling Green, University graduate who has collaborated with Candace Ohio with his partner, Karen, and too many cats. His Decker on over a dozen cabaret productions, as pianist, novel, Difficult Lies, was published in 2015 by Rogue singer, composer and arranger. Many of Phil’s original songs Phoenix Press. His short story collection, Girlfriending, is debuted publically by Candy at Festival of Books events. to be released in August of this year, also by Rogue.
Gail Sterkel is a playwright whose short plays have been Sheri Williams Pannell is Artistic Director and a produced on a variety of Madison, Wisconsin stages. founder of Bronzeville Arts Ensemble and will direct Last year, Gail’s full-length play (with Kathleen Johnson), their production of Flyin’ West in 2018. She is also the Ten Thousand Moons From Here, won the Renaissance writer and director of the forthcoming First Stage Theatre’s New Play Contest. Currently, Gail is working on production, Welcome to Bronzeville. A 2017 City of a novel, screenplay, and a writing guide focused on the Milwaukee Artist of the Year, Pannell holds degrees from ten-minute play. Spelman College and UW-Madison.
Julie Tharp is a professor of English who also teaches Diane Valentine attends a critique group at AllWriters’ American Indian Studies and Women’s Studies. She Workplace and Workshop with internationally known has been a fan of Ojibwe writer Louise Erdrich since author and teacher, Kathie Giorgio. Diane’s work appears the 1980s. Since 2000 she has also been pursuing in Front Range Review, Crab Fat Magazine, Birds Piled international teaching opportunities in Singapore, India, Loosely, No Extra Words (podcast), Boston Literary China, Scotland and Ireland. Magazine, and The Shine Journal. Her novels are Family Secrets, August 2014, and Daring to Soar, July 2015. Jesse Torrey’s life shattered in 2007 when her son received a startling diagnosis that left him with significant health issues and a very challenging life. Ten years later, her family has embraced their new normal. Torrey shares their story towards acceptance in her memoir, Smiles and Duct Tape. 19 FESTIVAL AUTHORS CONNECT TO SCHOOLS
As part of the “Festival Authors Connect to Schools,” several Wisconsin authors will be visiting Waukesha County Schools on Friday, November 3rd. They will be meeting with small and large groups of students to discuss their inspirations, their writing process, as well as their own published works. Student participants are encouraged to engage with these authors in question and answer sessions. Waukesha’s online school, E-Achieve, will be included in a live online session. Students are invited to continue their discovery of writers and writing by attending the Festival of Books the following day.
Michael Giorgio Carrie Newberry Shaindel Beers* Kerry Crowley Waukesha West Waukesha West High Waukesha West Kettle Morraine High School High School School High School
Carolyn Walker* Kathie Giorgio Colleen Glatzel* Jim Landwehr* Waukesha North Waukesha North High Waukesha South Waukesha South High School School and E-Achieve High School High School
* = AllWriters’ Workplace & Workshop, LLC
allwritersworkshop.com 234 Brook Street Unit 2 Waukesha, WI 53188 Chris Werkman Lynne Carol Austin* Diane Valentine* 262.446.0284 Arrowhead High School New Berlin West Les Paul Middle School High School 20 ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMITTEES
COOPERATING ORGANIZATIONS UW-Waukesha Foundation Eagle Public Library Greater Waukesha Literacy University of Wisconsin–Waukesha Elm Grove Public Library Martha Merrell’s Books Literary Club Hartland Public Library Mount Mary University Players Theatre Club Menomonee Falls Public Library Waukesha Community Art Project Pre-Health Sciences Club Mukwonago Community Library Waukesha County Technical College Student Government Association Muskego Public Library Waukesha County Business Alliance Art Department New Berlin Public Library La Casa de Esperanza Continuing Education Pauline Haass Public Library Literacy For All Diversity Center Pewaukee Public Library The Milwaukee Public Library Library Town Hall Library The City of Waukesha Maintenance Waukesha Public Library UW-Colleges’ Big Read Music Department Jefferson County Waukesha Catholic School System Student Development Fort Atkinson Public Library Waukesha-Pewaukee Convention and Visitors Bureau Theatre Department Jefferson Public Library Waukesha Reads! Alverno College Johnson Creek Public Library Waukesha School District Avalon Square L.D. Fargo Public Library Arrowhead High School Books & Company Palmyra Public Library Kettle Moraine High School Boswell Books Waterloo Public Library Les Paul Middle School Bridges Library System Watertown Public Library New Berlin West High School Waukesha County Whitewater Public Library Waukesha North High School Big Bend Library Carroll University Waukesha South High School Brookfield Public Library Encore Waukesha West High School Butler Public Library ERAS Wisconsin Campus Compact Delafield Public Library Friends of Waukesha Public Library Women’s Philanthropic Club
COMMITTEES Coordinator: Candace Decker, UW-Waukesha Staff Carron and Kathleen Folbrecht, UW-Waukesha Staff, Exhibits Marketing & Communications: z2 Marketing: Debra Event Chairs: Drew Blanchard, UW-Waukesha Faculty, and & Writers Marketplace Co-Chairs; Marilyn Lindemeyer, Zindler, Owner; Karren Jeske, APR, Public Relations Director; Duane Stein, Retired Waukesha School District Educator Authors Reception Chair; Sharon Wood, Century Fence Essay Candace Decker; Laraine O’Brien Contest Chair; James Boling, UW-Waukesha Staff, Century Advisory Council: Drew Blanchard, Event Co-Chair; Website/Social Media: John Klima Fence Essay Contest Judge; Debra Running, UW-Waukesha Lillian Boese, Former UW-Waukesha Foundation Executive Sponsorships: Harry Muir, Duane Stein, Laraine O’Brien Foundation Executive Director, Sponsorship Chair; Harry Director; Andrea Bryant, Waukesha Philanthropist; Candace Andrea Moreno-Islas, Chair Muir, Former UW-Waukesha Campus Dean, Sponsorships; Volunteers: Decker, Coordinator, Program Chair Assistant, Marketing Laraine O’Brien, UW-Waukesha Foundation and Founder of Exhibits & Authors Marketplace: Amanda Carron, UW- & Communications; Jill Fuller, Bridges Library System, Festival, Sponsorships, Marketing & Communications; Lisa Waukesha, and Kathleen Folbrecht, UW- Marketing & Communications Librarian; Jim Hahn, Executive Baudoin, Books and Company Owner, Festival Bookstore; Waukesha, Co-Chairs Director Greater Waukesha Literacy; Kori Hall, Waukesha Bonnie Birk, UW-Waukesha Foundation Emeritus Board; Judy Site Planning & Logistics: John Volz, UW-Waukesha Reads! Program Director, Waukesha Public Library; Karol Roller, Friends of Waukesha Public Library Board; Steven Maintenance Kennedy, Menomonee Falls Public Library Director; Cathy Decker, Theatre, UW-Waukesha Faculty; Jill Fuller, Bridges Kozlowicz, Founding Executive Director of Literacy For Administrative Support: Candace Decker, UW-Waukesha Library System, Marketing & Communications Librarian; All, Inc.; Harry Muir, Former UW-Waukesha Campus Dean; Foundation Ellyn Lem, English, UW-Waukesha Faculty; Kathy O’Neil, UW- Laraine O’Brien, UW-Waukesha Foundation and Founder of Finance: Mike Blau, UW-Waukesha Foundation Treasurer Waukesha Foundation Board Member Festival; Amanda Payne, Waukesha County Business Alliance; Authors & Presenters Reception: Marilyn Lindemeyer, Emily Reddy, Waukesha School District, Literacy Specialist; Program Committee: Kathie Giorgio, Allwriters’ Workplace Chair; Margaret Mahlberg, Personal Chef & Caterer & Workshop Program Director & author, literacy specialist, Debra Running, UW-Waukesha Foundation Executive Director, Authors & Presenters Reception Music: Craig Hurst, Program Chair; Candace Decker, Coordinator, Program Sponsorship Chair; Stephen Schmid, UW-Waukesha Regional Nancy VanBrunt Associate Dean of Academic Affairs; Duane Stein; Event Co- Chair Assistant, Marketing & Communications; Barbara Food Service: Pat’s Tasty Eats Chair, Sponsorships; Timothy Thering, UW-Waukesha Faculty; Geiger, Retired County School District Educator, Program Century Fence Student Essay Contest Judging: Sharon Holly Wehrhahn, UW-Waukesha Continuing Education, Assistant; Virginia Jones, Retired Waukesha School District Wood, Chair: James Boling, David Hackbarth, Southeast Regional Director Librarian; Ellyn Lem; Larry Nelson, Waukesha County Board of Supervisors, Friends of Waukesha Public Library Board; Larry Nelson, Margaret Rozga, Scott Silet Executive Committee: Drew Blanchard, Event Co-Chair; Laraine O’Brien, UW-Waukesha Foundation and Founder Festival Authors Connect to Schools: Kathie Giorgio, Duane Stein, Event Co-Chair; Candace Decker, Coordinator, of Festival, Sponsorships, Marketing & Communications; Chair; Susan Otto, Harry Muir, Duane Stein Program Chair Assistant, Marketing & Communications; Susan Otto, Waukesha School District; Judy Roller, Friends Barbara Geiger, Retired County School District Educator, Live Art: Barbara Reinhart, UW-Waukesha Art Department; of Waukesha Public Library Board; Margaret Rozga, UW- Program Chair Assistant; John Klima, Waukesha Public Rose Lange, Waukesha Catholic; Jan O’Brien, Waukesha Catholic Waukesha Faculty Emerita; Debra Running, UW-Waukesha Library and Website/Social Media Chair; Andrea Moreno- Festival Photographer: Blake McNulty Foundation Executive Director, Sponsorship Chair; Duane Islas, UW-Waukesha Student, Volunteer Chair; Amanda Stein; Event Co-Chair, Sponsorships 21 THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT
GRANT SUPPORT ESSAY CONTEST SPONSOR SPONSORS Bernard J. and Marie E. Weiss Fund Century Fence Company Bonnie Birk & David Helling at the Greater Milwaukee Foundation Friends of Waukesha Public Library Waukesha County Community Foundation/ Mihi Cura Futuri Fund COOKBOOK STAGE SPONSOR We Energies Foundation Michael & Laraine O’Brien FESTIVAL PATRONS Wisconsin Campus Compact Larry Nelson & Dawn Borowski Eugene Braun AUTHORS RECEPTION Comer Science & Education Foundation PROGRAM SPONSOR SPONSOR Joan & Bill Dehnel All Writers’ Workplace & Workshop Olive Garden – Brookfield Carol Dolphin UW-Waukesha Sweet Perfections Bakery Patricia Church UW-Waukesha Lecture and Fine Arts Committee Taco Amigo – Waukesha Barbara Geiger Waukesha Reads! TGI Friday’s – Brookfield Sidney & Virginia Jones z2 Marketing Marilyn Lindemeyer Mary Knudten Landmark Credit Union Peepers By Peeperspecs® PRESENTATION AREA BREAKFAST KEYNOTE The Women’s Philanthropic Club SPONSORS RECEPTION SPONSOR Century Fence Company Sweet Perfections Bakery Michael & Laraine O’Brien FRIENDS OF THE FESTIVAL Mary C. Botsford WRITER MARKETPLACE Sandy Brehl PERFORMANCE STAGE SPONSOR Candace & Steven Decker SPONSOR Waukesha State Bank Sue Feyrer Sara Toenes Susan Huebner Claude M. Lataille BOOKMARK SPONSOR Andrea Matthias AUTHOR SESSION SPONSOR Greater Waukesha Literacy Andrew and Barbara Ruggeri Literacy for All Susan L. Schweda UW-Colleges’ Big Read Laura Worcester HOSPITALITY SPONSORS Jo Zimny Country Springs Hotel – Waukesha AUTHOR SPONSOR Holiday Inn Suites – Delafield UW-Waukesha Players Theatre Waukesha Westphal Mansion Inn Bed & Breakfast – Hartford FESTIVAL BOOKSTORE UW-Waukesha Pre-Health Sciences Club Books & Company – Oconomowoc UW-Waukesha Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
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23 DIRECTIONS TO UW-WAUKESHA, 1500 UNIVERSITY DR.
A Room Commons 101 J B Hub, Hub Stage and Cooking Stage C Exhibits D Authors and Presenters Reception B E Author Presentations A H C F I E D F Books, Merchandise and Signing Area G G General Information/Lost and Found/ Author Check-in/Volunteer Check-in H Writer Marketplace I Live Art J Lunt-Fontanne Theater
Restrooms: Located in every campus building that is open for the events Where to Park: Free Festival parking is located in all University parking lots and as designated on University Drive Seating Policy: Seating is first come first served. Food & Beverages: A variety of food and beverages from Pat’s Tasty Eats will be available on campus Saturday from 8:45 am–2:00 pm and from 5:00–6:00 pm in the Hub area.
From the east on I-94 From the north on I-43 1. Take I-94 to Exit 293 (Hwy T) 1. Take I-43 to I-94 West 2. Turn south off exit ramp and continue approximately 2. Take I-94 West to Exit 293 (Hwy T) 1 mile on Grandview Blvd. 3. Turn south off exit ramp and continue approximately 3. Turn right on Northview Road (west) 1 mile on Grandview Blvd. 4. Turn left (south) on University Drive 4. Turn right on Northview Road (west) 5. Follow University Drive to Campus 5. Turn left (south) on University Drive 6. Follow University Drive to Campus From the west on I-94 1. Take I-94 to Exit 291 (Hwy G) From the southwest on Highways 59, 83 and 18 2. Turn south off exit ramp and continue on 1. Take Highway 59 to Highway 83 Meadowbrook Road to Northview Road 2. Travel north on Highway 83 to Highway 18 3. Turn left on Northview Road (east) 3. Follow Highway 18 east to the Waukesha City Limits 4. Turn right (south) on University Drive 4. Turn left (north) on University Drive 5. Follow University Drive to the Campus 5. Follow University Drive to Campus
From the north on US 41/45 From the south on Highway 164 or I-43 1. Where US 41/45 splits, take US 45 south to I-94 1. Take Highway 164 north to Highway 59 (Check Zoo Interchange closings) Turn left (west) on Highway 59 at stoplight 2. Take I-94 West to Exit 293 (Hwy T) 2. Turn right on County Trunk X which becomes 3. Turn south off exit ramp and continue approximately St. Paul Avenue 1 mile on Grandview Blvd. 3. Turn left on Moreland Boulevard 4. Turn right on Northview Road (west) 4. At the second stoplight (Summit Avenue) 5. Turn left (south) on University Drive turn left (west) 6. Follow University Drive to Campus 5. Turn right (north) on University Drive to Campus 24