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Margot Peters

Margot Peters is an award-winning biographer. Her most recent work is Lorine Niedecker: A Poet’s Life.

Michael Perry

Michael Perry is the author of several books on life in Wisconsin including Population 485 and Truck: A Love Story. Visit ...

Oscar Mireles

Oscar Mireles is the principal of Omega School in Madison. He’s been writing poems for 25 years and is the ...

Patricia Monaghan

Patricia Monaghan was a poet and essayist. She was published widely on women’s spirituality and mythology and was a senior fellow of the ...

Chrys Bocast

Chrys Bocast is a musician with a Ph.D. in Environment and Resources from the Nelson Institute at the University of ...

James Mills

James Mills is a freelance journalist and an independent media producer

David Rhodes

David Rhodes is the author of the award-winning novel, Driftless. He lives on 35 acres of land in the Driftless ...

David Maraniss

David Maraniss is a journalist with the Washington Post. He’s the author of "Barack Obama: The Story" and “Rome, 1960: The ...

Fabu

Fabu Phillis Carter is a poet laureate and storyteller. Her website is http://artistfabu.com/. She lives in Madison.

Count This Penny

Count This Penny is an Appalachian pop band based in Madison, Wisconsin. They write songs born of time spent walking ...

Susan Firer

Susan Firer is the former poet laureate of Milwaukee and the author of many books, including Milwaukee Does Strange Things ...

Patrick Somerville

Patrick Somerville is the author of several books, including his latest novel This Bright River.

Will Allen

Will Allen is a MacArthur genius and former pro-basketball player. He's now a farmer, and founder and CEO of Growing ...

Michelle Wildgen

Michelle Wildgen is the executive editor of the literary journal Tin House and the author of the novels Bread and ...

Jim Lattis

Jim Lattis is an astronomer and the director of the UW-Space Place in Madison.