Well known Wisconsin author of Small Celebrations series. In addition to the Celebrations books, Vroman has three other published books to her credit which include Tomorrow is a River (coauthored by Peggy Hansen Dopp), Sons of Thunder, and Linger Not at Chebar Vroman also teaches writing at the Clearing and at the School of the Arts in Rhinelander.

Jerry Rannow, screenwriter for Happy Days and other hit TV shows said about Vroman’s book small Celebrations Autumn, “A bull’s eye. A sensitive artist goes to Hollywood, land of paranoia, greed, envy, lust and betrayal, to sell a film script. Through laughter, Barbara Fitz Vroman SURVIVES and celebrates.”

Books by Judith include:Sand Island Succession: Poems of the Apostles, Parallel Press, Black Eye: Escaping a Marriage, Writing a Life, University of Wisconsin Press, Spring 2004.

Judith Strasser recently retired as a senior producer and interviewer for TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE, a nationally-distributed public radio program. Her poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Nimrod, Prairie Schooner, Witness and other literary magazines and anthologies. Judith has conducted poetry writing and audio workshops in Wisconsin schools; at Valley Ridge Art Studio and The Clearing, adult education centers; and at Mexican Bob's Poetry Camp (part of the Taos Poetry Circus) in New Mexico. She has received awards for radio production and for poetry from the Wisconsin Arts Board, and published a chapbook, Poems for the Parks, under a grant from the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission.

Assistant professor in the English department at UW River Falls, joined the faculty eight years ago and received the 2003 Distinguished Teacher award from UW-River Falls in April. She teaches writing and serves as adviser to Prologue, the campus literary magazine. She brought the national journal Literary Magazine Review to campus and is its editor. She also founded the Student Reading Series, which draws 30 to 100-plus people weekly to hear students and faculty read from their works in progress. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska, specializing in women’s literature and creative writing. She is the editor of Literary Magazine Review, a twenty-year-old quarterly that reviews literary magazines, and is co-editing an anthology of women’s literature to be published by Houghton-Mifflin. Her recent poetry publications include North American Review, Genre, A Room of One’s Own, Hurricane Alice, and other magazines.

Retired C.E.O., lecturer and former director of career guidance at Concordia University (Mequon, Wisconsin). He established The nonprofit Vocational Guidance Institute to research human capability, of which he is a leading authority. He serves on the International Montessori Advisory Board and is the author of The Key to Your Unknown Talent. He resides in Mequon, Wisconsin.

University of Wisconsin-Waukesha author of the civil rights memoir, The Movement Moves North Bullock County, Alabama, to Milwaukee, Wisconsin: A Volunteer's StoryPeggy Rozga. Peggy started as an assistant prof. at UW-Waukesha in 1984.She especially enjoy writing poetry and belong to a group with 4 other poets, The Sparks.Together they have done over a dozen readings, recorded a CD and are now worked with a group of fiber artists on a show, "Threaded Metaphors: Text and Textiles. She served for 4 years as chair of Women's Studies and initiated a team-taught, distance education version of WOM 101, Introduction to Women's Studies.She also served a three year term on the Executive Committee of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature.