What do English teachers do when they retire? Well, Mrs. Modine puts her analytical skills to work solving mysteries in D. Ann Johnson’s calendar mystery series. In the first book, Mrs. Modine and the Case of the Labor Day Love Affair Murder, Mrs. Modine gets her first taste of solving crimes when she receives a… Read More Dency Grubbs Interview
Poet Lisa Higgs, interviewed by her University of Illinois Springfield colleague Ted Morrissey, discusses her chapbook of sonnets, Lodestar (2011); the collection she’s currently writing; poetic craft; and the Vachel Lindsay Association, for which she serves as president. The interview took place in the historic Vachel Lindsay Home, originally built in the 1840s.
Ted Morrissey, author of the novel Men of Winter and the forthcoming novella and story collection Weeping with an Ancient God, talks with Lincoln Land Instructor Adam Nicholson about his books, his writing process, and other literary projects he has underway. Morrissey’s short fiction has appeared in journals such as Glimmer Train, The Chariton Review,… Read More Ted Morrissey Interview Part One and Two
Jacqueline “Jackie” Dougan Jackson is the author of over a dozen books, including three about the family dairy farm in Wisconsin that her grandfather began at the turn of the 20th century. The Round Barn, volume one, is at the culmination of years of dedicated collection, research, and synthesis using family materials, historical sources, and… Read More Jacqueline Dougan Jackson Interview
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