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UW Press Author Blogs
Interested
in more information about our authors?
Several UW Press authors
have blogs that discuss their books, events and interests.
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Jerry Apps, author
of our Fall 2007 book In a Pickle,
was born and raised on a Wisconsin farm, and is professor emeritus
at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author
of more than fifteen books, many of them on rural history and
country life, such as One-Room Country
Schools, Cheese, and Breweries of Wisconsin. He received
the 2007 Major Achievement Award from the Council for Wisconsin
Writers. His blog is www.jerryapps.com/blog
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Jean Feraca is the
author of our Fall 2007 title I Hear Voices. Wisconsin Public Radio's Distinguished Senior
Broadcaster, she is host and executive producer of Here on
Earth: Radio without Borders. Feraca has received several
honors including the Nation's Discovery Award and two Hopwood
Awards. Recipient of an Ohio State and Gabriel Award for her Women of Spirit radio series, she also received the National
Telemedia Council's Distinguished Media Award for her radio advocacy
of people with mental illness. She is author of three collections
of poetry. Her blog is jeanferaca.blogspot.com
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Alistair McCartney, the author of The End of the World Book, teaches creative writing at Antioch University in Los Angeles. His work has appeared in Fence, Bloom, James White Review, and other literary journals as well as in a number of fiction and creative nonfiction anthologies, including Wonderlands: Good Gay Travel Writing, published by the University of Wisconsin Press, and Between Men. Born in Australia, he lives in Los Angeles with his partner, Tim Miller. His blog is www.alistairmccartney.blogspot.com
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Tim Miller is an
internationally acclaimed performance artist and gay rights activist.
He is the author of the books Body
Blows and 1001 Beds. He teaches performance at the University of California, Los Angeles,
School of Theater and is cofounder of Performance Space 122 in
New York City and Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica,
California. His blog is timmillerperfomer.blogspot.com
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Mel Miskimen is a lifelong Milwaukee resident and an actor,
writer, and humorist who regularly appears on the Higher Ground program on Wisconsin Public Radio. She is the author of Cop's Kid. You can reach her blog directly by following this link to: limbo |
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