Bio: After earning Bachelor and Master’s degrees, Mary Ann Noe spent 29 years in Waukesha classrooms, first teaching 7th grade language arts and social studies, followed by high school English and psychology.  Upon retir...

BIO:Lisa is the owner of Books & Company in Oconomowoc.  She has been a bookseller since 1992 at bookstores in New Mexico, Kansas, and Iowa before she moved to Oconomowoc in 2007 to purchase Books & Company.  She...

BIO:A longtime Madison newspaper features writer, Tom Alesia wrote one of 2022’s bestselling baseball books, Beauty at Short: Dave Bancroft, the Most Unlikely Hall of Famer and His Wild Times in Baseball’s First Century, ...

BIO:A Milwaukee native, Ken graduated Ripon College and was later selected for the inaugural American Film Institute’s Writer/Director Program.He wrote/directed the Warner Brothers film, “Howzer,” has written teleplays/epis...

BIO:Tamara Dean has been camping, fishing, hiking, and gathering wild foods from an early age, led and inspired by her parents. She writes fiction and nonfiction and teaches creative writing. Her essays and stories have appeared i...