Links to local authors:
Ann Babiarz – life coach and author of The Graveyard Gambit.
Dr. Bakul Banerjee – scientist and author of short stories, essays and a collection titled “Synchronicity: Poems”
Charlene Baumbich – Author, speaker, and humorist.
Luisa Buehler – author of the Chicago-based Grace Marsden Mysteries
Mary and Rich Chamberlin . Children’s book authors. They wrote Mama Panya ‘s Pancakes.
Father Sunny Castillo - author of The Whistle of the Boatman and Plant Me on the River, books of poetry.
Mark Donovan - author of 7 Brides for 2 Brothers.
Joe Dubowski – author of Cartwheels in the Rain
Scott R. Etters – author of the Dropas Trilogy
Beth Finke - NPR commentator Beth Finke is an award-winning author, teacher and journalist. She also happens to be blind.
Marise Fleurisca - author of Wish You Were Here and Jilted.
Brett Foster - Poet and English Professor at Wheaton College.
Jimmy Gordon – author of Caribbean Calling
Earl Gorman – author of Fire Mission – a Marine’s Memoir of the Vietnam War.
Richard Keyworth – Author of Fires… Accidental or Arson?
Carol LaChapelle - author of Finding Your Voice Telling Your Stories
Tom Lambke - author of Spirit, Courage and Resolve, the story of Bryan’s road to becoming an International Special Olympics gold medal winner.
Laura Mazucca-Toops - author of fiction set in the 1920′s, including Hudson Lake
Nicole Mazzarella – author of This Heavy Silence
Illona Meagher author of Moving a Nation to Care: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and America’s Returning Troops.
Anita and Jordan Miller – Author and publisher, Academy Chicago Publishers.
Tom Montgomery-Fate – Professor of English at College of DuPage, author of Steady and Trembling
Helen Macie Osterman – author of The Emma Winberry Mysteries
Lisa Rosenthal – Principal Artist of the Vet Art Project.
Jack Schmidt – author of Toby and the Princess.
Todd Stone – Author of Novelist’s Boot Camp and several novels.
Natalia Toreeva – Author of Lucy the Chicken and Her Friends and Greg and the Sea Monster.
