David Benjamin 9:00 pm on Friday David Benjamin started his first novel at the age of nine, reading chapters aloud to his fourth-grade-classmates at St. Mary’s School in Tomah, Wisconsin. Part of that grade-school experience was recounted and embellished in his “memoir,” The Life and Times of the Last Kid Picked, published by Random House in 2002. Benjamin is also the author of SUMO: A Thinking Fan’s Guide to Japan’s National Sport. Published by Charles E. Tuttle in 2010, SUMO is a revision of The Joy of Sumo: A Fan’s Notes. In print for 22 years, Benjamin’s irreverent analysis of Japanese wrestling, in its two editions, is the bestselling book ever published on sumo — and one of the funnier books written about any sport. A Sunday Kind of Love is the rare novel that captures the unique madness of the sports fan. November 7 & 8, 2014 But Trish’s coming of age makes it a story equally Mystery to Me, an independent bookstore compelling to the non-fan. David Benjamin has created a wry, multi-layered education in sports- 1863 Monroe Street, Madison, WI 53711 bred lunacy — with an ending to satisfy the www.mysterytomebooks.com romantic in all of us. http://www.davidbenjaminwriter.com/ Authors listed in alphabetical order Alex Bledsoe Lee Atterbury 6:30 pm on Saturday 2:30 pm Saturday Alex grew up in west Tennessee an hour north of Graceland (home of Lee and his wife live on a horse farm in the Town of Middleton. His Elvis) and twenty minutes from Nutbush (birthplace of Tina Turner). He novels are inspired by the love of his horses and the Wyoming has been a reporter, editor, wilderness. Solitude Showdown photographer and door-to-door features Jim Taylor, a sixty-something vacuum cleaner salesman. He now lawyer who has abandoned his life of lives in a Wisconsin town famous for grinding responsibilities and disasters trolls, writes before six in the morning for the peaceful, simple life of the and tries to teach his three kids to act Wyoming wilderness. Life in the wild like they’ve been to town before. Alex proves to be neither simple nor is the author of the Eddie LaCrosse peaceful when Jim witnesses a novels (The Sword-Edged Blonde, Burn murder and kidnapping. Alone in the Me Deadly, Dark Jenny, Wake of the mountains with his horse, Buck, as his only companion, Jim must Bloody Angel and He Drank, and Saw overcome the worst that nature can throw at him while trying to thwart the Spider), the novels of the Memphis vampires (Blood Groove and The the kidnappers. Pushed to their limits, man and horse must repeatedly Girls with Games of Blood) and the Tufa novels (The Hum and the Shiver, risk their lives and meet violence with violence to survive. Wisp of a Thing and the forthcoming Long Black Curl). He also writes the www.leeatterbury.com Firefly Witch short story chapbooks. http://alexbledsoe.com/ Lori DiPrete Brown Lenore McComas Coberly 7:45 on Friday 4:30 pm on Saturday Lori DiPrete Brown served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras, Lenore was born in Lincoln County, West Virginia and lived there until her where she worked in a home for orphaned and abandoned teenage girls. marriage to Camden A. Coberly of Wood County, West Virginia. When he Her experiences accompanying the girls in her care on the journey to returned from service in the US Navy in World War II they were married and find their birth mothers provided the both pursued graduate degrees at Carnegie Institute of Technology, inspiration for this novel. She is a graduate of University of Pittsburgh, and the Yale, and holds graduate degrees in public University of Wisconsin-Madison. Lenore health and theology from Harvard. She studied taught at the UW-Madison, Madison writing at Yale, and at the Iowa Summer College, Dane County Creative Arts Over Writer’s Festival. Currently, she teaches global Sixty, Green Lake Conference Center health at the University of Wisconsin, leads workshops, and as a volunteer in churches international field experiences for students, and and public schools. Professor Camden consults with international global health Coberly’s work took him to Asia, Africa, organizations. She lives in Madison with her Europe, and many parts of the United husband and three children, and is a States. Lenore sometimes accompanied Benedictine Oblate of the Holy Wisdom Monastery. Her writing focuses him, writing, teaching and getting to know on themes of spirituality, social justice and personal transformation. the people. Her poetry was published in The People’s Republic of China and she wrote criticism of newly translated Rob Brunet Chinese works in English. She is the 7:30 pm on Saturday (via Skype) author of The Handywoman Stories and Rob Brunet’s 2014 debut novel Stinking Rich asks: “What could possibly go Sarah’s Girls: A Chronicle of Big Ugly Creek (both from Ohio University wrong when bikers hire a high school dropout to Press). tend a barn full of high-grade marijuana?” His short crime fiction appears and is forthcoming in Ellery Christine DeSmet Queen Mystery Magazine, Thuglit, Shotgun Honey, 5:00 pm on Saturday Out of the Gutter, Noir Nation, and numerous Madison author Christine DeSmet writes the new national bestselling anthologies. Before writing noir, Brunet produced Fudge Shop Mystery series from Penguin Random House including First- award-winning Web presence for film and TV, Degree Fudge and the recently published Hot Fudge Frame-Up. Mystery including LOST, Frank Miller’s Sin City, and the to Me Bookstore and the author cult series Alias. He loves the bush, beaches, and will offer a special promotion bonfires and lives in Toronto with his wife, during the Slam with a $25 Gift daughter, and son. Certificate giveaway. Her series is set in Door County, Wisconsin. It features Ava Oosterling, the first Belgian sleuth since Hercule Poirot. Ava operates a bait-and-fudge shop with her Grandpa Gil who has never-ending battles with his boats while Ava has never-ending trouble with fudge and felonies. Christine is also the author of another suspense novel, mystery short stories, and optioned screenplays. She teaches writing at University of Wisconsin- Madison where she directs the upcoming Nov. 14-16 “Weekend with Alex Hancock Your Novel” event open to all aspiring 8:45 on Friday writers. www.ChristineDeSmet.com Alex Hancock's first novel, Into the Light, won a continuingstudies.wisc.edu/writing/ Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. That was in 1987. He's still writing--including, starting this month, the Mystery To Me newsletter Get A Andy Grooms (see also, David Rozelle) Clue. Alex is married to Madison poet Mary 3:00 pm on Saturday Mercier and has a son, Nick, who's a writer and actor. His new novel, Tell Me We Both Matter, Christian Andrew Grooms, born in 1971, will come out next spring. currently lives and works in Madison. After studying for his BFA at the University of Minnesota, Grooms earned a MFA from Parsons School of Design, New York University. His artwork – which includes illustration, painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and audio production – has been exhibited in the Midwest, New York City, Connecticut and Kelly Harms in Germany. In addition, he has created 7:45 on Saturday artwork for Madison Opera, Roche, Inc., Kelly is a former editor and literary agent where and continues to illustrate for Full she worked with a wide array of bestselling and Compass Systems. He is also a musician, award-winning authors of commercial fiction. former sound engineer for Minnesota She traded New York City for the writing life in Public Radio, and has both created and Madison, Wisconsin, where she lives with her produced record albums, including cover art. Grooms asserts that as he adorable and sometimes imperious toddler sketched illustrations for The Kid Who Climbed the Tarzan Tree (Rozelle), Griffin. She currently works as a freelancer and modeling help from nine-year-old Hanshan Dorje Wright Miller and his amateur baking enthusiast—Harms can make a brother Japhy, age 12, enabled him to visualize the timeless qualities that lot of things, but not clafoutis. The Goodluck Girls children of all eras possess. of Shipwreck Lane is an enchanting, heartfelt debut about the many ways love finds us, the power of a home- cooked meal, and what it really means to be lucky. http://kellyharms.com/

Christopher Laing 5:45 pm on Saturday K.J. Klemme Christopher Laing is a graduate of 4:45 pm on Saturday the Creative Writing Program at the Karlie Klemme spends her days supporting software systems with University of Wisconsin. He has nervous coworkers—all fearing Karlie will kill them off in one of her worked as a bouncer, bodyguard, stories. Decapitate a developer? Asphyxiate an analyst? Maybe maim a blacksmith, morgue attendant and manager? When Karlie gazes off in the distance, cab driver. He lives in Wisconsin everyone starts to sweat. Desperate to use her with his wife Sue, and is working on powers for good, Karlie put pen to paper and his third novel. The Young Oaks is an wrote Tourist Trapped, a suspense novel that American epic that spans the debuted in 2014. She set the story in Cancun, Twentieth Century. Kirkus Review notes: “An excellent story of the tapping into her experiences from numerous American dream that manages a remarkable combination of breadth and jaunts to the Yucatan. When not torturing depth. A stirring success!” characters or frolicking in the tropics, Karlie enjoys kayaking, gardening, skiing, and joyrides in her Kurt Luchs roadster. She lives in Wisconsin with a Westie and 1:30 pm on Saturday a Scottie-mix who allow Karlie to cohabit with Kurt Luchs has written humor for the New Yorker, the Onion, and them…as long as the treats cupboard remains well stocked. McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among other outlets, and also http://www.kjklemme.com/ contributed to many of the Onion books, including Our Dumb Century. In television, he Lenny Kleinfeld was a staff writer for Politically Incorrect with 7:00 pm on Saturday Bill Maher and wrote for the Late Late Show Lenny (UW ’69) was given a with Craig Kilborn. In radio, he wrote for and starred Kirkus review for his novel managed the American Comedy Network, a Shooters And Chasers, calling it "a comedy syndication company. Since 2002, he spellbinding debut." The sequel, has edited and Some Dead Genius, was named written for the Thriller Of The Month by e- literary humor site Thriller.com, and the Austin TheBigJewel.com. His Chronicle said it has "a clever, well- work has been paced plot, terrifically real included in the characters and an especially humor anthologies Moms Are Nuts (Vansant addictive narrative voice." Lenny began his career in Chicago as a Creations), Created in Darkness by Troubled playwright, columnist and regular Playboy contributor. In 1986 he sold a Americans: The Best of the McSweeney's screenplay to Michael Douglas and is currently 28 years into a business Humor Category (Knopf/Random House), and May Contain Nuts: A Very trip to Los Angeles. www.lennykleinfeld.com Loose Canon of American Humor (HarperCollins). Barnes & Noble published his book Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli: A Wiseguy's Guide to the Workplace, which applies gangster movie quotes to best business practices. As part of the sibling comedy troupe the Luchs Brothers, he was responsible for the world's first -- and so far only -- Sex Pistols parody, Kill Me I'm Rotten, and co-authored The Luchs Brothers' End-of- Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council and the Society of the-World Party Book (Prairie Sun/Retread). After decades as a Professional Journalists as the “Citizen Openness Advocate of the Year” humorist, he has returned to his first literary love, poetry, so be afraid, for 2012. He is one of Wisconsin’s leading whistle blowers and is among be very afraid! TheBigJewel.com the nation’s best political money trackers. His efforts have attracted the attention of national newspapers, magazines, television and radio networks as well as Wisconsin media. A much sought-after public Sue Massey speaker, Mike has made nearly 1,400 presentations to a wide range of 7:00 pm on Friday audiences over the course of his career. Sue Massey lives in Middleton, Wisconsin, with her partner in life, http://littlecreekpress.com/store/blue_jeans.php. Kenny, beloved pooch Sophie, Jack the Cat, and a handful of pet hens that Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ComingMakeover free-range in their backyard gardens. Sue is mother to five grown children, and SuSu to four grandchildren. Jerry McGinley An artist, a business owner, and a devoted 5:30 pm on Saturday yogi for life, Sue lives and breathes "blue Jerry McGinley lives, teaches and writes in Wisconsin. His work includes sky," a world in which anything and A Goal for Joaquin, an audio novel published by The everything is possible. Sue is at one with Fiction Works; a hard cover novel, Joaquin Strikes the elements: the wind, the water, the air, Back; and a collection of poetry titled Waupaca and the earth, a reflection of her childhood County: 7 a.m. Jerry is the editor and publisher of days of growing up on a small dairy farm in Lake City Lights, a free online poetry magazine. southern, Wisconsin. Twice in her life, Sue www.lakecitypoets.com Massey’s fate was forever changed by a In his novel, Miles to Go Before I Sleep respected letter she wrote. Here she reveals how these letters hurled her into an high school teacher Mike Chadwick retreats to the astounding new life. In vivid detail, she tells the story behind the lonely isolation of the north woods, where he unforgettable photo taken as she watched her family's farm – their attempts to salvage his career, reputation and home, their livelihood – sold off to the highest bidder. sanity. There is no rest for the weary, however, as relentless detective, http://www.letterfromtheheart.com/ Pat Donegal, locates and questions Chadwick after a series of murders and disappearances occur in the area.

Mike McCabe Tom McKay 7:30 pm on Friday 4:00 pm on Saturday Mike McCabe is the author of Blue Jeans in High Tom McKay is an historian and museum Places and director of the Wisconsin Democracy consultant who lives in his hometown of Campaign, a nonpartisan watchdog group that Hampton, Illinois. He worked for more than tracks the money in state politics, exposes two decades as Coordinator of the Office of government corruption and works for reforms Local History at the State Historical Society of making people matter more than money in Wisconsin. In 2007 he received a national politics. Mike brings a farming background and a award from the American Association for professional lifetime of experience in politics, State and Local History for an outstanding journalism, public sector management and career of dedicated service to local museums nonprofit leadership. Under Mike’s leadership the in Iowa and Wisconsin. Tom has been writing Democracy Campaign was recognized by the fiction for fifteen years. His short stories have appeared in the Wapsipinicon Almanac, Vermont Ink, Downstate Story, Kristin Oakley the Wisconsin River Valley Journal, and the Out Loud Anthology series of 8:00 pm on Saturday the Midwest Writing Center in Davenport, Iowa. Small town life has Kristin A. Oakley is a founding member and past taken him to more pancake breakfasts, household auctions, and softball president of In Print, a professional writers’ tournaments than he can count. Tom’s novel West Fork takes place in organization in the Rockford, Illinois area and a 1968. Jim Blair comes to the tiny western Illinois community of West board member of the Chicago Writers Fork to teach in its new school. He meets a young woman named Linda Association. As a writing instructor at the UW- Bray who grew up on a local farm and hopes to return after studying Madison Division of Continuing Studies, Kristin veterinary medicine in Michigan. As Jim faces the uncertainties and critiques manuscripts and offers an online surprises of being a new teacher; the best surprise in his life is the love course on cliffhangers. Kristin has a B.A. in he comes to share with Linda. www.west-fork.com psychology and a J.D., both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Kristin’s debut novel Evie Yoder Miller Carpe Diem, Illinois is a finalist for the Chicago 8:00 pm on Friday Writers Association’s 2014 Book Awards and Evie grew up in a small town, Kalona, in southeastern Iowa in the 1940s was published in April of 2014 through Little Creek Press. She’s and 1950s, immersed in a family currently writing the sequel, God on Mayhem Street, and is playing unit of parents and three older around with the idea for a science fiction siblings, a Mennonite church, and a novel. http://www.kristinoakley.net/ rural community. From these beginnings she earned a college Melissa Olson degree in 1966 at Goshen College, 6:45 on Saturday Goshen, Indiana, with a major in Melissa Olson was born and raised in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, and English. Skip ahead to mid-life studied film and literature at the University of Southern California in Los when she went back to grad school Angeles. After graduation, and a brief stint bouncing and received an M.A. (1994) and a Ph.D. around the Hollywood studio system Melissa proved (1998) from Ohio University in English, too broke for LA and moved to Madison, WI, where Creative Writing—Fiction. Evie has taught she eventually acquired a master’s degree from UW- in high school, community college, and Milwaukee, a husband, a mortgage, a teaching gig, two university settings, most recently at UW- kids, and two comically oversized dogs, not at all in Whitewater where she taught composition that order. She loves Madison, but still dreams of the and creative writing/fiction writing classes food in LA. (Literally. There are dreams.) Along with for ten years. Her first novel, Eyes at the her Scarlett Bernard novels Dead Spots, Trail of Dead, Window (2003), uses historical material, and Hunter’s Trail she has also released a mystery focuses on the Amish, and is a pioneer novel, The Big Keep. Melissa’s work has been published in the Daily story with a mystery angle. She has enjoyed Trojan, the Chippewa Falls Herald Telegram, The International Journal of the shift to a contemporary setting in her Comic Art, The La Crosse Tribune, U-Wire, Women on Writing.com, and new novel Everyday Mercies where a young the compilation Images of the Modern Vampire. She has also presented woman returns to her parents’ dairy farm or been on panels at the Midwest Popular Culture/American Culture in southern Wisconsin at Thanksgiving and finds the courage to say she Conference, the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts wants to raise organic vegetables. http://evieyodermiller.com/ Conference, OdysseyCon, and EncountersCon in Wichita. http://melissafolson.com/

Ben and Katherine Perreth 6:45 on Friday Katherine and Ben Perreth, mother-son David Peters public speaking duo, bring their humorous 8:30 pm on Friday and entertaining brand of hope and Dave is abbot and senior dharma teacher inspiration as they discuss Making of the Isthmus Zen Community in Lemonade With Ben: The Audacity to Madison, Wisconsin. He began Zen Cope. Award-winning author Katherine practice in 1973 at Shasta Abbey, Mt. Shasta, California, under the direction of holds UW-Madison Social Work and Roshi Jiyu Kennett. For many years, he Sociology degrees, is a reporter for her wandered in and out of zendos and hometown newspaper, and conducts a class dharma halls in California, Illinois, on reminiscence writing. Ben, wearing his Michigan, New York, Ohio, and Wisconsin, ankle-foot-orthosis with a smiley face on carefully avoiding commitment to any of the back, juggles one-handed at the Madison them. In 1997, Dave began practice in the Children’s Museum and everywhere he Korean Zen tradition, receiving goes, accomplishing his life goal: “Make bodhisattva teacher precepts from his guiding teacher, Zen Master Ji Haeng, in humanity smile.” http://katherineperreth.com/ 2007. Dave was employed for 26 years by a large regional multi-line insurance company until his retirement in 2013. Who Is Singing in Chinese? Notes From 100-Year Zen Retreat is his first book. Windy Phillips

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Windy Phillips is a Madison-based author Arthur Rathburn currently working on her children's fantasy 8:30 p.m. on Saturday series the Innerland Chronicles. Book One: Art was born in Portola, California, a small Beyond the Forest, and Book Two: Before the town in the Northern Sierra Nevada Mountain have both been released since the fall Mountains. After serving an extended of 2013, and she is hard at work on the third term in the Army, stationed in Germany and forth books to round out the series. She is he and his new German wife, Ursula passionate about inspiring creativity and returned to the States to continue his imagination in people of all ages, and her education. He achieved a B.A degree in greatest aspiration is to provide readers with Social Science, an M.S. degree in advanced new, fantastical worlds they can inhabit study in Anthropology, History and through her books. windyphillipswrites.com Geography, and then went on to earn a innerlandchronicles.com Ph.D. in Resource Geography. After being awarded tenure as an

Associate Extension Professor for the University of Idaho his program

was eliminated and he continued his work as a private consultant. When

a strong downturn in the economy hit the country he rejoined the U. S.

Army Reserves and served as a full time USAR medical recruiter until his

retirement in 2001. At that time he decided to pursue his love of

studying and writing history and has since written and had published six

biographies or books based on true stories of people of the World War Two era. Return to Sierra Valley is Art’s first Western novel. events for Paoli House Gallery in Wisconsin. The Kid Who Climbed the http://www.fortdanebooks.com/team-view/arthur-rathburn/ Tarzan Tree represents Rozelle’s long-delayed written celebration of his Susan Riseling six years as a “kid from the Home.” 9:00 pm on Saturday Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief of Police Susan Riseling has led the Adam Schrager University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department since 1991. She has 6:30 pm on Friday woven problem solving policing with community oriented policing to Adam Schrager runs the investigative unit at WISC-TV, the CBS affiliate form an effective approach in dealing with campus safety and crime in Madison. In his 25-year reporting career, he has won numerous issues. Chief Riseling is considered an expert accolades including nearly 30 Emmy awards. Schrager’s first book was in date and acquaintance rape, crowd “The Principled Politician,” a biography of former Colorado Gov. Ralph management and active shooter prevention. Carr (R-Colorado) whose stand on behalf of Japanese Americans after Chief Riseling is a Past President of the Pearl Harbor would cost him his Wisconsin Chiefs of Police Association. She is political career. His second book, the first woman and the first University Chief “The Blueprint: How the Democrats ever to serve as President. She spent six years Won Colorado (and Why on the Wisconsin Police Leadership Republicans Everywhere Should Foundation Board. She is a Past President of Care),” has been lauded by The the Wisconsin Police Executive Group and Wall Street Journal, The Past President of the Dane County Chiefs of Washington Post and political Police Association. The Chief was named the figures on both sides of the NAWLEE Motorola Law Enforcement political spectrum. His most Executive of the Year in 2003. She was awarded the Student Personnel recent work, “The Sixteenth Rail: Association Chancellor’s Award in 2013. Her book “A View From the The Evidence, The Scientist and The Lindbergh Kidnapping” was named by Interior: Policing the Protests at the Wisconsin State Capitol” was NPR’s Science Friday as one of the best books of 2013. Schrager has an released in October of 2013. undergraduate degree in history from the University of Michigan and a graduate degree in broadcast journalism from Northwestern University. David Rozelle (see also, Andy Grooms) www.adamjschrager.com 3:00 pm on Saturday David William Rozelle lives in retirement with his wife Judith, a plant scientist, in Wisconsin’s Wyoming Township near Spring Green. Following his boyhood at Taylor Home and in a rural foster home, he earned an undergraduate degree at Wisconsin State College- Whitewater and did graduate work at universities in both Colorado and California. A published poet, essayist and former guest political columnist, Rozelle has for years collaborated with his distinguished artist friend Christian Andrew Grooms on

Ingrid Swanberg Katrin Talbot 2:45 on Saturday 1:45 pm on Saturday Ingrid Swanbergʼs poetry has appeared in numerous publications since Australian-born Katrin Talbot’s the late 1960s, most recently in the international journal Osiris, the collection noun’d, verb was recently online ExpressMilwaukee, Garrison Keillorʼs The Writerʼs Almanac (May released from dancing girl press. She 7, 2013), and the anthology The Mountain (Outrider Press, 2014). Her has two other chapbooks, including poem sequences, Eight Poems and “in the dreamtime,” currently appear Freeze-Dried Love from Finishing in the online Light & Dust Anthology of Poetry, and a letterpress Line Press, and St. Cecilia’s Daze, chapbook, Three Bird Songs, published by Parallel Press. A song has been published by The cycle based on her poetry will be Costmary Press (2012). She premiered in Toronto this year and is the author of two new she was Poet-in-Residence for Sound poetry collections, Ariadne & Ensemble Wisconsin last season. She Other Poems (Bottom Dog has recently been nominated for two Press, March 2013) and Pushcart Prizes in Poetry. She is a Awake (Green Panda Press, violist in the Madison Symphony Orchestra and once received enough February 2014). A native prize money from a national poetry contest to fund a Dairy Queen run. Californian, she has lived in Madison since the early 70s, engaging in various poetry publishing projects, from women---focused Jeff Veesenmeyer mimeo poetry magazines in the 70s to editing the poetry journal Abraxas 2:00 pm on Saturday and directing the poetry book series Ghost Pony Press (1980 ― present). On 11 May 1945 the USS Hugh

Under the Ghost Pony Press imprint she published Zen Concrete & Etc., a W. Hadley (DD774) made naval full---length collection by avant---garde American poet d.a.levy, and she history. The new book continues to contribute to the growing scholarship on levy’s work. She is Kamikaze Destroyer describes a co---curator of the d.a.levy homepage, and is the co---editor of d.a.levy the Hadley’s participation in an and the Mimeo Revolution (Bottom Dog Press, 2007) and the “d.a.levy epic air/sea battle at Okinawa. satellite” edition of the online magazine Big Bridge. She holds a PhD in Author Jeffrey R. Veesenmeyer Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin---Madison. In began researching this book to addition to writing poetry she is a collagist and prose writer, and is learn more about his uncle, currently writing a book on lyric poetry. who was killed by a kamikaze on the Hadley. He discovered a story about a ship and crew that needed to be told. More importantly, it was a story that surviving Hadley shipmates and their families wanted told. [email protected] www.JeffreyMarketing.net Facebook.com/Kamikaze Destroyer

T.E. Vernier 8:45 pm on Saturday T. E. Vernier writes from his home in the driftless area of western Wisconsin. His dedication to writing grew out of his english, philosophy, and theology studies at Ripon College, and from his graduate degree in English from the University of Chicago. He has a background Michelle Wildgen in education and business, and currently 6:00 pm on Saturday teaches and trains Customer Care for a Michelle Wildgen's third novel Bread and regional auto group. Feckenmeyer's Mailbox is Butter is out this fall in paperback. She is also the first novel in the Dick Stranger crime the author of the novels You're Not You, series. The second in the series is expected to recently released as a film be released in Spring 2015. T. E.’s inspiration starring Hilary Swank and Emmy Rossum, comes from local color and characters, and and But Not For Long. Her work has appeared from stories that were always meant to be in O Magazine, the New York Times, Best told. T. E. Vernier lives with his wife of 39 Food Writing, Best New American Voices, and years, Denise, and with his Cairn terrier, other journals and anthologies. In 2012, with Makeup. writer Susanna Daniel, she cofounded the www.tevernier.com Madison Writers' Studio, offering writing workshops here in Madison. https://www.facebook.com/tim.vernier.5 www.madisonwriters.com www.michellewildgen.com Holly Lynn Walker 3:30 pm on Saturday The Little Girl Who Shined Just Right sheds light on the subconscious and energetic side effects of bullying, through the experiences of a little girl named Celeste. Celeste learns, with the help of her family, the true meaning of friendship, how to trust her feelings and love herself. Holly’s favorite quote: "One Can Never Consent to Creep When One Feels An Impulse To Soar." by Helen Keller