Tim Southwick Johnson
Tim Southwick Johnson is a songwriter who also plays acoustic guitar, mandolin, tenor guitar, ukulele and harmonica. His latest album is called Sand County Songs.
Dennis McCann
Dennis McCann is a retired journalist and the author of several books, including This Superior Place: Stories of Bayfield and the Apostle Islands.
Dave Cieslewicz
Dave Cieslewicz is the former mayor of Madison and teaches in the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the UW-Madison.
Kevin Searock
Kevin Searock teaches high school science in Portage and is the author of Troutsmith: An Angler’s Tales and Travels.
Joe Hardtke
Joe Hardtke is technical director and sound designer for “Wisconsin Life” radio segments. He was raised on a dairy farm in Kewaunee County, spending most of his youth milking cows and bailing hay.
Catherine Jagoe
Catherine Jagoe is a translator and writer whose most recent poetry collections are Bloodroot and News from the North. Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in the 2016 Pushcart Prize XL anthology, “The Gettysburg Review,” “TriQuarterly,” “Fourth Genre,” “Memoir Magazine,” “Water~Stone Review” and other journals.
Brett Laidlaw
Brett Laidlaw is the author of the book and the blog Trout Caviar and the author of Trout Caviar: Recipes from a Northern Forager.
Shawn Connelly
Shawn Connelly is a producer and musician living in Green Bay, WI and periodically freelances in New York.
Heidi Hodges
Heidi Hodges is contributing editor of Door County Magazine and a freelance photographer.
Maureen McCollum
Maureen McCollum is the host and executive producer of “Wisconsin Life” on Wisconsin Public Radio and the “WPR Reports: Uprooted” podcast. Her work has appeared on NPR and has been honored with national and regional awards.
Danielle Kaeding
Danielle Kaeding is a Wisconsin Public Radio reporter based in Superior.
Elizabeth Delaquess
Elizabeth Delaquess is a podcast specialist at First Unitarian Society, a radio tech at Wisconsin Public Radio, and a volunteer features producer for a show called “Third World View” on WORT.
Carrie Rothburd
Carrie Rothburd is a consultant and writer who lives, rides horses, and cares for wildlife and other small creatures in Madison, Wisconsin.
John Hildebrand
John Hildebrand is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and the author of several books, including his most recent, The Heart of Things: A Midwestern Almanac. He has been awarded a Minnesota Book Award, Banta Award from the Wisconsin Library Association, Bush Fellowship, Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship, and his articles and essays have appeared in Harper’s and Outside magazine.