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TK Sheffield

TK Sheffield, MA, writes stories for readers to laugh and escape. Her “Backyard Model Mysteries” series is The Devil Wears Prada meets a Wisconsin supper club—complete with brandy old-fashioneds and cheese curds. Recent releases include Nellie’s Island and The Valentine Lines, Grand Prize Finalists for the 2026 Eric Hoffer Book Awards. Her screenplays have…
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Cathryn Cofell

Cathryn Cofell is the author of eight books of poetry, including Stick Figure with Skirt, winner of the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. Additional awards include the Lorine Niedecker Poetry Award, the Mill Prize, and the Christopher Latham Sholes award for mentoring other poets. Her poems have been set to music on Lip, with Obvious Dog, and in concrete…
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Rebecca M Zornow

Rebecca M. Zornow the author of Amazon Top 100 title It’s Over or It’s Eden, the Displacement Duology (“An exciting new SF epic!” -Matt Forbeck, NYT bestselling author), and the brand new cozy romantasy series Landsome Roads. She is a Hal Prize winner, member of the Wisconsin Writers Association and full member of the…
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Jocelyn Cole/Juneau Black

Jocelyn Cole writes romance as Elizabeth Cole and co-authors a mystery series as Juneau Black. She adores tea, basketball, cheese, 20-sided dice, and cats, not necessarily in that order. She was born and raised in Wisconsin, but was briefly exiled for not drinking enough beer. Happily, she once again resides in Milwaukee. Despite formerly…
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Lora Hyler

Lora writes pre-K, middle school children and teen books, and adult essays. Her award-winning debut novel, The Stupendous Adventures of Mighty Marty Hayes, features multi-cultural superheroes, science, and spy gadgets. She was lead author of Journeys of Home: Stories of Migration, Perseverance and Culture, published by SHARP Literacy, and distributed to 10,000 Wisconsin schoolchildren.…
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Mary Behan

MARY BEHAN was formerly a professor of neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. Now retired, she devotes her time to writing fiction, memoir and short stories. Abbey Girls is a memoir she wrote with her sister, Valerie Behan, about their childhood in Ireland. Her debut novel, A Measured Thread, set in Wisconsin and…
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Jacqueline West

Jacqueline West is the author of a dozen novels for young readers, including the New York Times-bestselling series The Books of Elsewhere, the Schneider Family Award Honor Book The Collectors, the YA horror novels Last Things and Black Point, and the middle grade mystery Long Lost, which received a Minnesota Book Award and the…
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Alycia Calvert

Alycia Calvert (she/her) is a neurodivergent queer author who is learning the exquisite agony of starting over at forty. She is currently in the final year of her PhD at Binghamton University, and is hoping to finish the next version of her dissertation by the end of August. During the conference, she will be…
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Gavin Schmitt

Gavin Schmitt is the author of thirteen books on Wisconsin crime and history. As a professional historian, he focuses on state crime within a broader social and political context. Through use of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), he has made public over 1,000,000 pages of documents from local, state and federal agencies. His…
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Craig A. Knitt

Craig A. Knitt is an artist / educator / filmmaker / and writer that specializes in ‘story’. He has worked as a visual arts teacher for more than 30 years but he is currently the Creative Arts Specialist for the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Bay and Lakes Region (Green Bay, Door County,…
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