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Sawyer Cole
Sawyer Cole currently resides in Green Bay, WI, however, they are a native of a small, rural town in North Carolina. Sawyer wrote a memoir about the complexities of growing up queer in the south in the early 2000s, navigating their way, and coming home to themselves. They work by day in the mental…
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Josh Rank
Josh Rank is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee and lives in Appleton, WI with his wife and two dogs. Publications include THE PRESENT IS PAST (Unsolicited Press, 2023), CHANCE TO FADE & OTHER STORIES (Running Wild Press, 2025), and ESTUARY (Unsolicited Press, 2026). He keeps himself busy putting together ugly…
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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…