Kathleen Keck
Kathleen Keck is a substitute teacher in the Fox Valley area.
Linda Pils
Linda Pils is a retired teacher and former co-director of the Wisconsin Writing Project at UW-Madison.
Steve Gotcher
Steve Gotcher is a technical director and producer with Wisconsin Public Radio.
Angela Fitzgerald
Angela Fitzgerald is the host of Wisconsin Life on PBS Wisconsin. In addition to her work hosting the television series, Angela is the Director of Family, Youth & Community Engagement for the Madison Metropolitan School District.
Donna Fischer
Donna Fischer lives and works in Green Bay. Along with gardening, she enjoys music and collecting vinyl records.
Erika Janik
Erika Janik is the co-creator and former executive director of Wisconsin Life. She is the author of six books, including Pistols and Petticoats: 175 Years of Lady Detectives in Fact and Fiction, Apple: A Global History, and Marketplace of the Marvelous: The Strange Origins of Modern Medicine.
Sam Thayer
Sam Thayer lives in the woods in Northwestern Wisconsin. He teaches workshops on edible wild plants throughout the U.S. and he’s the author of The Foragers’s Harvest and Nature’s Garden.
Christine Sloan-Miller
Christine Sloan-Miller is one of the “Wisconsin Life” project producers and believes that enjoying Wisconsin-sourced chocolates on the shores of Vilas County’s Trout Lake would be a sublime way to spend a day.
Marty Perkins
Marty Perkins was curator of research and interpretation at Old World Wisconsin, and the manager of the Eagle Diamonds vintage baseball team.
Lynda Barry
Lynda Barry is an award-winning author and cartoonist best known for her weekly comic strip “Ernie Pook’s Comeek.” Her graphic novel “What It Is” won the comics industry’s 2009 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work.
Margot Peters
Margot Peters is an award-winning biographer. Her most recent work is Lorine Niedecker: A Poet’s Life.
Caryl Owen
Caryl Owen is the former technical director of To The Best of Our Knowledge.
Tom Jones
Tom Jones is a photographer and enrolled member of the Ho-Chunk Nation. He’s the co-author of People of the Big Voice. The book won a USA Best Books Award for Photography.
Jane Hamilton
Jane Hamilton is the author of the award-winning novels The Book of Ruth, A Map of the World, and When Madeline Was Young. She lives in a farmhouse in Rochester, Wisconsin.