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2007 Guest Authors
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| Paul Schwankl |
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Paul R. Schwankl is senior editor of the monthly Ann Arbor Observer. He has degrees in philosophy from Harvard University and the University of Toronto and has worked in publishing in Ann Arbor for twenty-seven years. As a freelance editor of reference books, he wrote definitions for The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy and the third edition of The American Heritage Dictionary.
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| Nancy Shaw |
Nancy Shaw is the award-winning author of Raccoon Tune, Sheep in a Jeep, and five other sheep stories. Her first book got started when she read animal rhymes to her children on a car trip. She lives in Ann Arbor.
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| Heidi Woodward Sheffield |
Award-winning illustrator and aspiring children's story writer Heidi Woodward is the creator of the notable Ann Arbor Book Festival poster series. She will be appearing Sunday, May 20th, along with illustrator Susan Kathleen Hartung and author/illustrator Ruth McNally Barshaw. To view Heidi's work, go to www.heidibooks.com.
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| Sheila Quinn Simpson |
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Sheila Quinn Simpson. Author of Apology: The Importance of Saying "I'm Sorry" While the subject of Apology seems to be invisible in society, the need for Apology is everywhere. This book is intended to increase awareness...and with awareness there is hope for change...for growth...for renewal.
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| David Small |
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David Small is an illustrator, writer and freelance editorial artist. Of his 35 picture books, six are of his own writing. Imogene's Antlers has been featured on the PBS's Reading Rainbow for 15 years. David received the Caldecott Medal for Most Distinguished Picture Book of 2000 for his illustrations for So You Want to Be President?
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| Kevin Smokler |
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Kevin Smokler is editor of the anthology Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times. He consults on technology issues for publishers, booksellers, and writers.
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| Robert Soderstrom |
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Robert Soderstrom, M.D., author of The Big House is a 1972 graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School. He is board certified in internal medicine and dermatology and has practiced in Flint, Michigan, since 1980. He has had season tickets to Wolverine football games continuously since 1968 and during that time has never witnessed a losing season in Ann Arbor, an amazing accomplishment by those who coach and play Michigan football.
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| Cheryl Steinberg |
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Cheryl Steinberg. Author of Becoming Cinderella – a Single Mother's Journey from Tatters to Triumph. A passionate journey through the author's own life - through marriage and motherhood, the unraveling of her marriage, and the re-creating of her life. This is an uplifting invitation to never stop believing that we have the power to make our dreams come true.
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| Sarah Stewart |
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A passionate gardener, published poet and lifelong diarist, Sarah Stewart is the author of six acclaimed children's books - The Money Tree, The Library, The Gardener, The Journey and The Friend (all illustrated by David Small). For The Gardener Sarah received the 1997 First Place Juvenile Literary Award from the Friends of American Writers (Chicago).
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| Alison Swan |
Alison Swan (M.F.A., University of Michigan) is the editor of Fresh Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakes (Michigan State University Press), a 2007 Michigan Notable Book. She has new work forthcoming in a Nature Conservancy coffee-table book celebrating natural Michigan. In 2002, she was the winner, with her husband David Swan, of the Michigan Environmental Council's Petoskey Prize for Grassroots Environmental Leadership.
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| Geri Taeckens and Kojack |
Geri Taeckens lives with her husband and guide dog in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. She is a school social worker for the EUP/ISD, special education teacher, private practitioner, and director of a non-profit organization she created, Iris Seemore Animal Health Fund. Her passion is facilitating acceptance of differences and promoting self-acceptance through music, books, presentations and working with students.
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| James Tobin |
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James Tobin is an author and historian. After earning bachelor's and doctoral degrees in history at the University of Michigan, he worked as a newspaper reporter, then as a freelance writer. He is the author of three books, including Ernie Pyle's War, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography. Tobin is now an associate professor in journalism at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
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| Paul Toth |
Paul A. Toth's novels Fizz and Fishnet are available now. His third will be published soon. Short fiction credits include The Barcelona Review, Night Train and The Mississippi Review Online. His multimedia work has appeared on the Iowa Review Web, Drunken Boat and other sites. His weekly podcast is at http://tothnews.libsyn.com. See www.netpt.tv for more information.
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| Dr. Timothy Uhlmann |
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Dr. Timothy Uhlmann is the author of When Your Canary Quits Singing. Packed with practical, down-to-earth wisdom, this book by a psychologist is an empowerment tool to help anyone in a toxic relationship examine his or her situation and to consider leaving. It provides the basic tools for people who want to reconnect with their hearts and focus on the wellness of their bodies and spirits.
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| Emily Warn |
Emily Warn, editor of www.poetryfoundation.org, is author of The Leaf Path and The Novice Insomniac. Her new collection, Shadow Architect, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press. Her poems and essays appear in Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Blackbird, BookForum, The Bloomsbury Review, and The Writer's Almanac. Warn taught creative writing at Lynchburg College, and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
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| Harvey Wasserman |
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Harvey Wasserman (UM '67) is author of a dozen books on energy, the environment, US History and stolen elections, including the widely acclaimed Solartopia! Our Green-Powered Earth, A.D. 2030 and Harvey Wasserman's History Of The US. One of the world's leading eco-activists, the former Daily Editorial Director helped launch the grassroots "No Nukes" movement against atomic power. Rev. Jesse Jackson calls Harvey and co-author Bob Fitrakis "the Woodward & Bernstein of the 2004 election" for their reporting on mass-scale vote theft.
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| Lisa Wheeler |
Lisa Wheeler is passionate about children's books. "I love everything about them, including the smell." To date, Lisa has twenty titles on bookstore shelves, with more to follow over the next few years. She's written picture books in prose and in rhyme, an easy reader series, two books of poems, and creative nonfiction for the very young.
Awards include the 2004 Mitten Award for Old Cricket, given by the Michigan Library Association, the 2005/06 Great Lakes, Great Books Award and 2005 Missouri Building Blocks Award for Bubble Gum, Bubble Gum, and most recently, The Bluebonnet Award for Seadogs.
Lisa shares her Michigan home with one husband, two dogs, three kids, and an assortment of anthropomorphic characters.
Her newest titles include Mammoths On The Move illustrated by Kurt Cyrus (Harcourt, Inc.) and Castaway Cats illustrated by Ponder Goembel, (Atheneum) Check out her website at www.lisawheelerbooks.com.
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| Dan Wickett |
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Dan Wickett is the webmaster behind the Emerging Writers Network which counts both traditional writers and bloggers among its members.
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| Nancy Willard |
Nancy Willard is a Newbery Medalist and acclaimed author of more than fifty books for adults and children. She lives in Poughkeepsie, New York, and teaches at Vassar College.
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| Perry Willett |
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Perry Willett is the Head of the Digital Library Production Service (DLPS) at the University of Michigan. DLPS is responsible for digital content creation at the University of Michigan libraries, and software development for DLXS, the digital library system. In addition to his work in digital libraries, he has served as a bibliographer and reference librarian at Indiana University, SUNY-Binghamton and Columbia University.
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| Amy Williams |
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Amy Williams began her publishing career as editorial assistant in 1992 at Doubleday. She has since worked as an agent at The Gernert Company, ICM, and Collins McCormick Literary Agency. She represents authors Elizabeth Kostova and Travis Holland.
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| D. Harlan Wilson |
D. Harlan Wilson is the author of several books of speculative fiction, including The Kafka Effekt, Stranger on the Loose, Pseudo-City, and a pulp science fiction novel, Dr. Identity, or, Farewell to Plaquedemia. He is an assistant professor of English at Wright State University-Lake Campus in Ohio. For more information on Wilson and his work, visit his official website at www.dharlanwilson.com.
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| John Woodford |
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John Woodford grew up in Benton Harbor, Mich. After earning his BA and MA degrees in English Literature from Harvard, he worked at a variety of publications in Chicago, New Haven, New York and Ann Arbor before becoming executive editor of the U-M alumni publication Michigan Today in 1985. He retired from the university in 2004.
He is married to his college classmate Elizabeth Duffy Woodford. They have two sons and a daughter and three grandchildren.
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| Kathleen and Jonathan Wright |
Kathleen and Jonathan Wright have been enjoying the company of urban fairies since 1993, when the first fairy door appeared in their home. Kathleen, an Irish lass, is a kindergarten teacher, a storyteller and an author. Jonathan, an Ann Arborite, is an illustrator and fairyologist (unlicensed). Together they are writing and illustrating several books on the urban fairy phenomenon.
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| Jonathon Yang |
Jonathan Yang, freelance writer and author of The Rough Guide to Blogging, has written for and maintained a variety of popular blogs on subjects ranging from movies and technology to personal stories and amateur musings. Originally from San Diego, he's lived and traveled the world (okay, not all of it) in pursuit of that most elusive of targets -- inspiration.
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| Anne Karie-Zenith |
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Anne Karle-Zenith is currently the Special Projects Librarian at the University of Michigan Library in Ann Arbor. She graduated in 2003 from the University of Michigan School of Information. Before becoming a librarian she worked for many years in the music industry, licensing music as well as other copyrighted works for use in advertising, film, television and other media.
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| Naomi Zikmund-Fisher |
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Naomi Zikmund-Fisher is the Principal of Ann Arbor Open School at Mack. She is also the author of Across the Chasm: A Caregiver's Story (2002, BMT Infonet), a candid yet humorous account of her adventures caring for her husband during his bone marrow transplant in 1999. One of her greatest loves is sharing books with kids. She especially enjoys wrestling her daughter, age 9, for the latest Harry Potter books and reciting Go Dog, Go! ad nauseum with her son, age 2.
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