Kenosha Writers' Group

Bill Schroeder is retired and writes poetry and short fiction and is therefore able to lie, exaggerate and relate half truths. His writing may stimulate, depress or horrify a reader; sometimes even causing a laugh at the human condition. Doubtless veracity is not one of his unvarnished qualities.

Tammy Peacy finds time to write between loads of laundry in the basement of the home she shares with her husband, Steve, and their three children. Her writing has been published in AntiMuse, Chick Flicks Ezine, The Write Side Up, and Wanderings Magazine.

Rick Ponzio is a professional fiction writer, playwright, storyteller, actor, and educator. He has been a presenter and a keynote speaker at Young Authors' conferences in Minnesota and Iowa. He has lectured at colleges and universities; taught writing classes at the Playwrights' Center and has done artist residencies independently and for the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. He has presented folk literature through the Minnesota Literature Live program, administrated by the Loft. Rick has received a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship in literature twice and a Jones' One-act commission twice. His plays have been toured regionally and nationally. He has self-published books of folk literature including The Feast of St. Luigi, Life is Life, Common Sense, The Cat, Markle: The Messy Boy, and Valentine's Day. He has published an article for the Loft titled "Writing Folk Literature", as well as having written classroom exercises for a teacher's manual on an interactive CD-ROM entitled Opening Night produced by MECC. Rick has recently self-published a CD book entitled Write Times.

Christine Wade is an RN, a lover of trains, and is currently working on a creative non-fiction book based on her childhood.

Mary Ann Eils is a retired registered nurse working part time as a nursing instructor. She has been married for sixty years. Mary Ann is a mother of four, grandmother of nine, and great-grandmother of two. She enjoys writing true to life stories with a humorous touch.

Dorene Mangan writes fiction and is working on her memoirs. "My Father's Hands" was inspired by her father's courage after he lost both hands in an industrial accident when the author was eight years old. Another memoir piece, "My First Job", was recently published in the June/July 2007 issue of Reminisce magazine. She participates in workshops with the Kenosha Writers' Group and The Internet Writing Workshop..

Rick McCluskey retired after twenty-three years on the Racine Police Department before becoming a full time author who writes under the pseudonym Sheldon Doyle. He has written numerous short stories and poems, but his love is novels; intriguing, thrilling and sometimes scary novels. He has written five books and River of Sensations can be purchased on Lulu.com. Come join him. You never know what's going to go bump in the night.

Joe Barr was once accused of plagiarism by his High School teacher. He was deeply flattered when he learned what that meant! A technical education and life intervened while his words lay dormant. Of late, he has attempted to resurrect the still synapses and arrange words in a rational and entertaining way. 'Tis a work in progress.

Nancy Turecek enjoys writing about real life, real feelings, real observations%u2026 just real stuff.

Suzanne Simonovich wants to share with everyone a perception of humanity to educate, inspire, and amuse, or encourage a tear of compassion; to leave a legacy of love and camaraderie for herself and for her mother who made an unselfish career choice of motherhood in lieu of journalism.

"In retrospect I believe I can keep her memory alive by writing, I know she would be keen on the idea of me penning a book in her honor."

While currently working on that premise, she also enjoys other like souls in workshops, and writing classes in the Kenosha area.


Sandy Dickson was born in Zion, Illinois. After high school, she attended college in California where she studied drama. Following college, she spent ten years in the television and movie industries.

During her time in Los Angeles, she sang in a musical group which toured the country. She also served as the main model and spokesperson for Weider Enterprises, a physical fitness company for which she traveled extensively. Sandy had a burning desire to see the world and departed for the Orient, where she lived and worked in various locales, including Japan, Hong Kong, and Bangkok, before progressing on to tour Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, and Europe.

After returning to the United States, she moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue her passion for lyric writing. She became certified in the profession of electrolysis and opened an electrolysis clinic, which she presently owns and operates.

Here is another site of hers: www.goflo.com/sd/


Tim Hein. Writing has always served as a creative outlet from the staid accounting world, but it was my six years working as a loan officer in two small town banks that sparked my interest in a novel. Ideas that I couldn't have dreamed up in a million years, such as an elderly man ripping his filthy dentures from his mouth and slamming them on my desk, or a woman claiming she couldn't pay because her son had been kidnapped and sold off ~experiences like these are priceless. After six years of hearing a stream of ridiculous excuses, I thought to myself,

"No matter what I write, it will be believable compared to things that have actually happened to me."

My muse appears in short bursts ~ an hour over lunch, thirty minutes before bedtime, an hour in the car on the way to Grandma's. Handcuffs and straitjacket couldn't keep me to pen and paper for more than a couple hours. Maybe that's why it took my twelve years to write and publish Net Loss. Presidents came and went, centuries rolled over, and I kept pecking away a page at a time until it finally worked. Well, you know what they say about a thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters ~ I just happen to be that lucky monkey.