Local Authors Live! | Oct 24th, 6-8pm

Melissa Gorzelanczyk is a writer, speaker, sober artist, and lover of rituals and meadows. Her first novel, ARROWS, was published by Penguin Random House. She holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She works as a copywriter and lives with her husband in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Receive more of her writing: tinyurl.com/59mze2d4. 

Ami Maxine Irmen has spent her entire life moving back and forth across the Wisconsin/Illinois border; she currently resides in Green Bay. Ami Maxine lives and breathes writing, both for fun (she is the author of Goode vs Melville, Wherever Would I Be, and the forthcoming All Falling Things, and editor of Voices of JAMS) and for work (she is a professor of English). Her poems and short stories have found homes in places like Sinister Wisdom, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and Copperfield Review Quarterly. You can often find her in her natural habitat: writing in a cozy café.

Randy Scannell earned a BA in History with a minor in Humanistic Studies from the University of Wisconsin Green Bay (UWGB). His writing experiences include several creative writing classes first with Peter Cooley and then with Peter Stambler, participating in many workshops and writing groups, winning an improv poetry contest at UWGB, publishing an article in The Voyageur, poetry in fsm., and editing Fifty Strong by John Maino. Retired, his background is mostly in education having taught in several northeastern school districts, Menominee Indian Reservation, Pakistan, and Mexico. He was most recently a Green Bay city alder for District 7.

Melissa Westemeier’s fiction work includes rom-com (Whipped, Not Beaten  and Kicks Like a Girl) and a trilogy loosely based on her experience tending bar on the Wolf River in Wisconsin (Across the River, On the River, Through the Channel).  Get updates about her Nun the Wiser Mysteries (coming in April 2025) and subscribe to her newsletter for other fun stuff at https://www.melwestemeier.com/ or follow her author page on Facebook.

Wendy Wimmer's debut short story collection ENTRY LEVEL: STORIES received the 2021 Autumn House Fiction Prize. The book was also recently named to Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Short Fiction for 2022 as well as an honoree for the Society of Midland Authors 2023 Book Awards. Her novel manuscript most recently was a finalist for AWP's James McPherson Adult Fiction Prize of 2024. She lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where she is an editor for a large tech publication and in her free time, she volunteers as the president of The Art Garage/Cedar Center Arts. Contact her via her website www.wendywimmer.com or on IG @wendy_wimmer.