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GARY HARBO
www.garyharbo.com
Gary Harbo was raised in Lynd, a farming community in southwestern Minnesota. In 1990 he created cartoon characters that were loaded with personality. His children, Kari and Gary II, were at the root of this inspiration. In 1991, Gary jumped head-first into the magical world of children's books. Gary's latest book, How to Draw 104 Cartoons with Gary Harbo, contains art lessons on how to draw the cool cartoons that he has created over the years. As an author and illustrator, Gary teaches art lessons to over 15,000 elementary school children every year. His motivational talks encompass the whole process of writing, illustrating and publishing.
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MICHAEL HART
Michael Hart is an American best known as the founder of Project Gutenberg which makes electronic books freely available via the Internet. At least one version of each book is a plain text file that can be displayed on virtually any computer. Most of the early postings were typed in by Hart himself. Today, the e-texts are produced (usually scanned) by Project Gutenberg's many volunteers. The collection includes public domain works and copyrighted works included with express permission.
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ALLISON HEDGE COKE
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke was raised in North Carolina, the Plains and Canada, she previously worked horses, fields, waters, and factories. The Weymouth Center for the Arts, Center for the Great Plains Fellow, and upcoming Lannan Foundation Marfa Resident, holds the endowed Reynolds Chair of Poetry & Writing at the University of Nebraska. Books include: Dog Road Woman (American Book Award, Coffee House Press), Off-Season City Pipe (poetry, CHP); Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer (memoir, U.NE.), and Blood Run (Salt). She has edited eight other volumes. Hedge Coke is a South Dakota resident.
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PATRICK HICKS
Patrick Hicks is Augustana College’s Writer-in-Residence as well as the author of five poetry collections, most recently Finding the Gossamer (2008) and This London (2010), both from Ireland’s acclaimed press, Salmon Poetry. His stories have been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize, he recently won the “Glimmer Train New Writer’s Fiction Award”, and several of his stories have been nominated for Best American Short Stories. He is the recipient of a number of grants, including one from the Bush Foundation to support work on his first novel.
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MARILYN JOHNSON
www.thisbookisoverdue.com
Authors for Libraries
Marilyn Johnson is the author of This Book Is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All which Harper published in February, and which opens in the Deadwood Public Library. She is also the author of The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries (HarperPerennial, 2007), which was a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize. She lives with her husband, Rob Fleder, and their children outside New York City, and has spoken at two previous SD Festival of Books.
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REBECCA JOHNSON
www.rebeccajohnsonbooks.com
Rebecca L. Johnson is the author of more than 75 non-fiction books for children, young adults, and adults on diverse subjects ranging from the deep sea to polar exploration and medicinal herbs. Her research has taken her to many locales worldwide, including Antarctica, Central America, Australia, and New Zealand. Her books have received awards from Scientific American, the National Science Teachers Association, the Children’s Book Council, Science Books and Films, the Society of School Librarians International, and the New York Public Library. She lives in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
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BRUCE B. JUNEK & TASS THACKER
www.ImagesoftheWorld.com
Explorers, authors and photographers Bruce B. Junek and Tass Thacker have spent 34 years traveling through the world's most exotic places. The Road of Dreams is the story of their two-year around-the-world bicycle trip. Andes to the Amazon, chronicles adventures from seven different journeys in Mexico, Central and South America. The husband and wife team have also bicycled through southern Africa and the eastern Mediterranean. They plan to bicycle through China in 2011. More than 1.5 million students have seen the slide programs from their travels.
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KARI KAY
www.floppycat.com
Having experienced many great adventures on her South Dakota farm with her two sons and many pets, Kari Kay created the Floppy Cat series as a way of sharing the inspiration of the real Floppy's life with children everywhere. She is creatively working to share her knowledge through more books, songs, and an interactive website that will continually bring joy and happiness to parents and their children. Kari Kay wrote the Floppy Cat story with hopes that it would inspire life-enhancing conversations between parents and their children.
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KURT KEMPER
Kurt Kemper is a history professor at Dakota State University who has explored the ways in which debates involving college football forty years ago reflected how those involved felt about free speech, racial integration, and how they defined patriotism. The resulting book will be too academic for some audiences, but readers wishing to understand how “social, cultural, and political elites effectively used football to browbeat, harass, and intimidate those who challenged an American status quo merely by invoking its relationship to anticommunism and the Cold War” might want to give it a look, since the end of that Cold War hardly meant the end of the effort “to browbeat, harass, and intimidate those who challenge an American status quo.”
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JEFFREY KOTERBA
www.jeffreykoterba.com
His new memoir, Inklings, traces Koterba’s path on his journey to become a cartoonist, and more so, to rediscover the love of his family that was there from the start. In 2009, he won first place for editorial cartooning in the Great Plains Journalism Awards. Koterba has written for ABC News and The Daily Beastand in 2009, he was named a finalist for a three-part essay written for The World-Herald, “Ink and Ash,” in the Great Plains Journalism Awards. He has also received an honorable mention from Glimmer Train in the Short-Story Award for new writers.
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ERNIE LAPOINTE
Ernie LaPointe was born in 1948 on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of South Dakota. Ernie is a Sun Dancer and lives the traditional way of the Lakota and follows the rules of the sacred pipe. In 1992, Ernie spoke at the induction of Sitting Bull into the Hall of Fame of American Indian Chiefs in Oklahoma. Since then, he had numerous invitations from Crazy Horse Memorial, South Dakota and the Little Bighorn Battlefield, Montana to speak about his heritage. Ernie’s book Sitting Bull His Life and Legacy was published in August 2009 by Gibbs Smith Publishing.
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DAVID LASKIN
For the past twenty-five years, Laskin has written books and articles on a wide range of subjects, including history, weather, travel, gardens, and the natural world. His book, The Children’s Blizzard, won the Washington State Book Award and the Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Award for Nonfiction. A frequent contributor to The New York Times Travel Section, Laskin also writes for the Washington Post, the Seattle Times, and Seattle Metropolitan. He and his wife, Kate O’Neill, the parents of three grown daughters, live in Seattle.
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JON LAUCK
Jon K. Lauck was born on a farm near Madison, South Dakota. Lauck graduated from South Dakota State University in 1993, received his Ph.D. in economic history from the University of Iowa in 1997, and his law degree from the University of Minnesota in 2000. He is the author of American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly: The Political Economy of Grain Belt Farming, 1953-1980 (University of Nebraska Press, 2000), Daschle v. Thune: Anatomy of a High Plains Senate Race (University of Oklahoma Press, 2007), and Prairie Republic: The Political Culture of Dakota Territory, 1879-1889 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2010).
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JOY K. LINTELMAN
Joy K. Lintelman is a professor of History at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. She has researched Swedish immigration for over two decades, publishing on a diverse range of topics such as domestic service, business entrepreneurship, and sentencing in the Minneapolis City Workhouse. A Fulbright Scholar, she has lived and traveled in Sweden. Her recent book I Go to America received a 2010 Minnesota Book Award for Nonfiction. She is currently researching in the areas of Swedish immigrant children, interaction between Swedish immigrants and American Indians, and Swedish immigrant food history. She lives in Moorhead with her husband and enjoys spending time with her three children, reading, gardening, cooking, and spending time outdoors.
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FREYA MANFRED
www.freyamanfred.com
Freya Manfred’s poetry has appeared in over 100 reviews and magazines and over 30 anthologies. She conducts poetry workshops and readings for grades K-12, colleges, and adults. She lives half an hour east of the Twin Cities with her husband, screenwriter Thomas Pope, and her twin sons, Rowan and Bly Pope, visual artists who have illustrated her last two books of poetry. Nature and the outdoor world, as well as the relationships between human beings -- family, friends, acquaintances, and strangers -- are the primary subjects of her work.
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BILL MARKLEY
The Old West has fascinated Bill Markley from the time he was a boy growing up on the family farm in Pennsylvania. Moving to Pierre in 1976, to work for the South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources was a natural fit for Markley, where he immersed himself into local history leading to participating in films such as Dances With Wolves. He has written two books, one based on his experience in Dances With Wolves, and the other book is about Lewis and Clark on the Missouri River. He has written for South Dakota Magazine and national magazines True West, Wild West, and Boys Life. Markley’s latest work a nonfiction short story “Kenneth McKenzie, King of the Upper Missouri” appears in the Western Writers of America’s Roundup! anthology. Markley and his wife Liz, a Selby native, make their home in Pierre where they have raised two grown children.
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DEBRA MARQUART
www.debramarquart.com
Debra Marquart is a professor of English at Iowa State University. A performance poet, Marquart is the author of two poetry collections: Everything's a Verb and From Sweetness. Her memoir, The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere, was published by Counterpoint Books in 2006. It received the "Elle Lettres" award from Elle Magazine and the 2007 PEN USA Creative Nonfiction Award. Marquart is currently at work on a novel, set in Greece, titled The Olive Harvest, and a roots memoir about emigration, geographical flight, and cultural amnesia titled Somewhere Else this Time Tomorrow.
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ALISON MCGHEE
www.alisonmcghee.com
Alison McGhee is a Pulitzer Prize nominee and a #1 New York Times bestselling author. She writes for all ages and in all forms, from poetry and stories to novels and picture books and essays. Her many awards include four Minnesota Book Awards, the GLCA National Fiction Award, Friends of the American Library Award, Gold Oppenheimer Toy Portfolio Award, ALA Best Books for Children, and Parents' Choice Award, and a City Pages Artist of the Year award. Alison is an associate professor of creative writing at Metropolitan State University, where she coordinates the creative writing program. She has taught at many other colleges and universities and was a founding member of Hamline University's MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults.
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DIANE MEIER
www.dianemeier.com
Marketing guru, author of The New American Wedding and president of MEIER, a NYC based marketing firm whose clients have helped define luxury marketing (from Neiman Marcus and DeBeers to Maximilan Furs, Kohler, Elizabeth Arden and Pierre Balmain). Her career has honed skills from strategy, writing and design to public speaking. Married to best selling author and BBC broadcaster, Frank Delaney, she has had much to observe about writing and speaking - from a front row seat.
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JOE MIERAU
www.pinehillpress.com
For the past 20 years, Joe Mierau has managed Pine Hill Press, a small book printing company in Sioux Falls that he owns together with his wife Mary Ann. Joe and Mary Ann are the parents of five grown children and the grandparents of three pre-school grandchildren. |
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DON MONTILEAUX
www.montileaux.com
Don Montileaux is world-renowned artist and illustrator and is an enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe. He has received nearly 20 awards and commissions and attended over 25 major art shows throughout his artistic career. His art is illustrated on the cover of six books, work is included in numerous private collections as well as public, and has been featured artist in art galleries in New Mexico, Minnesota, Arizona, Colorado, as well as South Dakota.
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VALZHYNA MORT
Born in Minsk, Belarus (part of the former Soviet Union), in 1981, Valzhyna Mort has been praised as “[a] risen star of the international poetry world” by the Irish Times. When she moved to the United States in 2005, she had already published her first book, I’m as Thin as Your Eyelashes, and was known across the world as an electrifying reader of her poems. She composes her poems in Belarusian as attempts are being made to revitalize the traditional language, which lends her work both conventional and groundbreaking tones. She lives in Washington, D.C.
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KENT NERBURN
www.kentnerburn.com
Kent Nerburn is the author of 12 books on general spirituality and Native America. He has twice won the Minnesota Book Award and has been called "one of the few writers who can respectfully bridge the gap between Native and non-Native cultures." His work on Native issues has been praised by Native writers ranging from Louise Erdrich to Leonard Peltier, Winona LaDuke, and Joseph Marshall, and by non-Native historians from Howard Zinn to Robert Utley. His works on issues of general spirituality, including Simple Truths, Small Graces, and The Hidden Beauty of Everyday Life have earned him recognition as “one of America’s living spiritual teachers.” Among his most notable works are Chief Joseph and the Flight of the Nez Perce, Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder, and The Wolf at Twilight: An Indian Elder’s Journey through a Land of Ghosts and Shadows
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