Links to local authors:

Ann Babiarz - life coach and author of The Graveyard Gambit.

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. 

Mark Donovan - author of 7 Brides for 2 Brothers.

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.

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.

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

Lisa Rosenthal - Principal Artist of the Vet Art Project.

Todd Stone - Author of Novelist's Boot Camp and several novels.