Authors
Emily Demuth is a school library/media aide and freelance writer who lives in Elmhurst, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, with her husband and three children. She has done freelance writing for many years, primarily devotionals, curricula, and global education resources for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and Augsburg Fortress Publishers. She is a regular contributor to The Little Lutheran and The Little Christian.
Hilda Demuth is a high school English teacher who lives lives in a farmhouse in Northwest Indiana near Valparaiso, Indiana. with her husband and three children. She also plays in a contra dance band called the Hoosier Recruits.
Linda George is an experienced professional writer, teacher, and novelist known for her coaching of beginning writers in the Southwest. She lives in West Texas.
Nicholas D. Hayes is a market researcher and partner at the consulting firm FiveTwelve Group, and is active in the Milwaukee sailing scene. Nick has studied sailing, sailors, and sailing clubs for years, and interviewed over 1,200 sailors worldwide since 2003 for his book, Saving Sailing. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Mary-Lane Kamberg is director of a summer writing camp in Kansas for young writers. She has a journalism degree from the University of Kansas and has authored 11 books, including Bono: Fighting World Hunger and Poverty (Rosen Publishing, 2008) and The “I Don’t Know How To Cook” Book (Adams Media, 2004). She has also published hundreds of articles, short stories, and poems. She lives in Olathe, Kansas, near Kansas City.
Frank Wayne Martin was a World War II veteran who served as a scout for Patton on his march across Europe. Born in Massachusetts, he lived in the Milwaukee area for the last years of his life until he passed away in January 2010, not long after this publication of his memoirs. Nancy Martin is his daughter-in-law; working closely with her father-in-law, she helped to compile his stories in the memoir, Patton’s Lucky Scout. She also lives in the Glendale / Milwaukee area. (No relation, by the way, to Philip Martin; see next entry below.)
Philip Martin is a folklorist, award-winning author, and book editor who has worked with award-winning children’s and adult fiction. He has produced audio, photo-documentary, and written studies of cultural heritage, as well as instructional guides for writers, and is series editor of an annual anthology on craft and career for writers, The New Writer’s Handbook. He directs Great Lakes Literary, a consulting firm that helps authors and small organizations get their best work published. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. For more, visit www.greatlakeslit.com.
Laurie Risch is a Madison, Wisconsin, writer and editor. She has taught composition in public and private secondary schools and is currently working on several children’s books. She also serves as a grant writer for Write Now! Consulting.
Sally Stanton teaches grant writing and professional communication at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Mount Mary College, and Carroll University. She is also a freelance consultant, and directs Write Now! Consulting, a firm offering research, writing, and editing services for nonprofits. She lives in Milwaukee.