Martha Bergland
Author | | Martha Bergland’s profile of Milwaukee’s “chocolate Nazi," Bittersweet, is in the April 2008 Milwaukee Magazine. Her short story The Pipeline Walker will appear in the fall 2008 Great River Review. Bergland’s first novel, A Farm Under A Lake, was published in 1989 by Graywolf Press, and by Vintage Books, Bloomsbury in England, Bonniers in Sweden, and Krueger in Germany. Graywolf published her novel Idle Curiosity in 1997. Bergland’s fiction has won several prizes, including a Pushcart Prize.
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Deb Brehmer
Writer, Art Historian | | Debra Brehmer is a writer and art historian who teaches part-time at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. She also co-publishes Milwaukee's on-line art magazine, Susceptible to Images, and operates a small gallery called Portrait Society. She is a single mother of three children.
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Liam Callanan
Author | | Commentator and writer Liam Callanan teaches creative writing at UW-Milwaukee. He's author of The Cloud Atlas; his most recent novel is All Saints.
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Kurt Chandler
Writer, Editor | | Kurt Chandler is a senior editor at Milwaukee Magazine and the author of two books of nonfiction, including Shaving Lessons: A Memoir of Father and Son. His work has been published in a number of newspapers and magazines, from The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle and Minneapolis Star Tribune, to Advertising Age, The Advocate and Salon.com. Chandler is a writing instructor, motorcycle enthusiast and guitar player in a bluegrass band. He lives in Wauwatosa with his wife and their teenage daughter.
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Ann Christenson
Dining Critic | | Ann Christenson is dining critic for Milwaukee Magazine and writes the Dish on Dining blog at MilwaukeeMagazine.com. She shares restaurant reviews with Jane Hampden each month on Lake Effect.
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Bob Greenstreet
Architect, Professor, Author | | Professor Robert Greenstreet is the Dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at UWM and is currently the longest serving Dean of Architecture in North America. Dr. Greenstreet is the author/co-author of seven books, has contributed to fifteen other texts and handbooks and has published over one hundred and fifty working papers and articles, both nationally and internationally. In addition to being a registered architect in the United Kingdom, he is a practicing arbitrator and mediator recognized in both the United States and Europe.
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John Gurda
Historian | | John Gurda is a Milwaukee-born writer and historian who's studied his hometown since 1972. He is author of seventeen books, including histories of Milwaukee-area neighborhoods, churches and industries. Gurda's The Making of Milwaukee is the first feature-length history of the community published since 1948. Milwaukee Public Television produced a five-hour documentary series based on the book.
Gurda is also a lecturer, tour guide, and history columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He holds a bachelor's degree in English from Boston College and a master's in cultural geography from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Gurda is an eight-time winner of the Wisconsin Historical Society's Award of Merit.
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Eric Hansen
Adventurer | | Eric Hansen is a Milwaukee writer and outdoorsman who frequently explores the upper Great Lakes and the American West.
He writes for Backpacker Magazine and other publications, and has written two guidebooks: Hiking Wisconsin and Hiking Michigan's Upper Peninsula - A Guide to the Greatest Hiking Adventures in the U.P. The books reflect a memorable 1,700 miles of research on foot in search of the region's most notable pathways.
Hansen's adventures include 24 treks to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, ascension of most of the high peaks of Glacier National Park, and a telemark-style ski descent from Colorado's highest summit, Mount Elbert.
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Peggy Hong
Milwaukee Poet Laureate | | Peggy Hong was born in Seoul, South Korea, and raised in Hawaii and New York. She is author of several books including the poetry collection Three Truths and a Lie (Water Press and Media). She writes a monthly column for LiteraryMama.com called Far From Cool, about parenting teenagers. Hong has lived in Milwaukee since 1987 with her husband and their three children. She teaches at Alverno College, Woodland Pattern Book Center, and Riverwest Yogashala, where she is a certified Iyengar yoga instructor. She is Milwaukee's Poet Laureate for 2006 and 2007.
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Barbara Joosse
Children's Author | | Barbara Joosse works in her Cedarburg studio writing books for children, including Mama Do You Love Me and Nugget and Darling. Her latest is Wind Wild Dog. She lives in a stone house by a creek with her sculptor husband, Chuck, occasionally writing essays and commentaries for Lake Effect.
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Paul Kosidowski
Arts Critic, Writer | | Paul Kosidowski writes the Culture Club column for MilwaukeeMagazine.com, and covers the local arts and culture scene for a number of publications. He teaches journalism at UW-Milwaukee and is the past literary director of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater. He lives with his wife and son in Shorewood.
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Dave Kozlowski
Farmer | | David Kozlowski heads the Milwaukee Community Supported Agriculture Initiative, representing CSA farmers in southeast Wisconsin. He is a board member of Slow Food Wisconsin Southeast and on the planning and developing committee for the Farm Fresh Atlas, promoting local food sources in southeast Wisconsin. Kozlowski, with his wife, Sandra Raduenz, owns Pinehold Gardens in Oak Creek, a 21-acre farm providing fruits and vegetables to CSA members, farm market customers and local restaurant-goers.
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Jacqueline Lalley
Essayist | | Jacqueline Lalley is a contributor to The Onion. To read her mind-blowing poetry, visit Konundrum Literary Engine, and if your sanity is still intact, check out her essays in Secrets and Confidences: The Complicated Truth About Women's Friendships (Seal Press) and Bitch Magazine. The excessively patient can read one of her Lake Effect essays in Rejected: Tales of the Failed, Dumped, and Cancelled (Villard, 2009). Jackie moved to Milwaukee from Chicago in 2004 and lives in Riverwest. She is a communications consultant for nonprofits and serves on the board of Woodland Pattern Book Center.
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Tom Lidtke
Museum Director | | Tom Lidtke is executive director of the Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend and past president of the Wisconsin Federation of Museums. He's author of numerous essays and articles on Wisconsin art published in the United States and Germany. Lidtke is an art educator and consultant, and serves as juror for art fairs and exhibitions, including the Lakefront Festival of Art.
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Dave Luhrssen
Film Critic | | David Luhrssen is arts & entertainment editor of the Shepherd Express, co-founder of the Milwaukee International Film Festival and co-author of A Time of Paradox: America Since 1890. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design and Milwaukee Area Technical College. He joins Lake Effect's Dan Harmon each month to review new movies and discuss news of the film industry.
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Stan Miller
Tech Writer | | Milwaukee native Stanley A. Miller II is an assistant entertainment editor and technology columnist at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Miller writes technology trend stories for the paper, including features on new high-tech devices, videogames and online communities. He also writes about science fiction, "guy stuff" and geek culture.
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Bruce Murphy
Journalist | | Milwaukee Magazine editor Bruce Murphy has won more than 30 national and state journalism awards. He is a former reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and prior to that edited Milwaukeeworld.com, where he broke the pension scandal story that resulted in the county executive and seven county supervisors losing their jobs. He and colleague Kurt Chandler examine local stories in the news on the monthly Lake Effect reporter roundtable, along with Milwaukee Magazine editorial page editor Ricardo Pimentel.
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Melinda Myers
Gardening Expert | | Melinda Myers, is host of Great Lakes Gardener on public television and the author of many gardening books, including Month by Month Gardening in Wisconsin.
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Richardo Pimentel
Journalist | | Ricardo Pimentel is editorial page editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He joins Milwaukee Magazine editors Bruce Murphy and Kurt Chandler each month to review local stories in the news on Lake Effect's Reporter Roundtable.
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Anne Reed
Lawyer, Jury Consultant, Blogger | | Anne Reed is a trial lawyer and jury consultant in Milwaukee. She’s a shareholder at Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren, SC, where she represents business clients in litigation and assists lawyers preparing for trial through Reinhart's Trial Science Institute. She writes about juries and jury trials at her blog, Deliberations, and at the Wisconsin Law Journal.
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Rob Ricigliano
Professor, World Affairs | | Robert Ricigliano is director of the Institute of World Affairs and the Peace Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he teaches International Mediation and Negotiation through the Department of Communication. Ricigliano was a founding board member of the Alliance for Peacebuilding, a consortium of leading conflict resolution NGOs and academic centers. He has worked with political parties in the new Iraqi Parliament and on the peace process in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He's been involved in peace building interventions in Russia, Georgia, Colombia and South Africa. He holds a law degree from Harvard Law School and a bachelor's degree from Hamilton College.
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Mark Siegrist
Commentator | | Commentator Mark Siegrist is a freelance television producer. His most recent documentary is Milwaukee’s Muslim Faithful, airing on Milwaukee Public Television. Milwaukee’s Vowed Women of Faith aired on MPTV last fall.
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Judy Steininger
Writer, Scientist | | Judy Steininger is a Professor Emerita at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, where she teaches chemistry and literature classes, and leads the Great Books Dinner and Discussion Series. She won a 2006 Milwaukee Press Club award for Best Magazine Feature Story. Steininger has served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya, and describes herself as a never-say-quit golfer.
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Dave Swanson
Chef | | Milwaukee chef Dave Swanson is owner of Braise-on-the-Go, offering cooking classes and advocating for the Slow Food movement. He stops by the Lake Effect studio to discuss food trends, local ingredients and seasonal recipes.
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Jonathan West
Writer, Actor, Director | | Jonathan West is a writer, actor, and director based in Milwaukee. He is the former artistic director and co-founder of the late, great Bialystock & Bloom. He writes about art for everyday people through his Artsy Schmartsy blog at MKE Online.
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