Nancy Macgregor (BFA, Layton School of Art, Milwaukee) worked in Chicago doing advertising art and television production, then opened her own art studio. She has taught figure drawing, watercolor, printmaking and acrylics for Madison College, MSCR, and Continuing Studies. Visit www.nancymacgregor.com to learn more.

Adrianne Machina has spent nearly 20 years helping businesses attract more leads and convert more sales through effective marketing programs and persuasive messaging. An active member of Toastmasters International, she speaks on social marketing media around the country.

Mary Magray wrote Transforming Power of the Nuns, the groundbreaking story of modern women's religious communities in Ireland. She is working on a series of novels on the seventh-century English abbess Hilda of Whitby.

Bill C. Malone is the author of Country Music, USA, compiler of the Smithsonian Collection of Classic Country Music, and a two-time Grammy Award nominee who hosts WORT-FM's "Back to the Country."

Sarah Marty (Master's in arts administration, MS in curriculum and instruction, UW-Madison) directs theatre programs for UW-Madison Continuing Studies and is the managing director of Four Seasons Theatre.

Susan Masino , a rock journalist for 30 years, has published four books, including Let There Be Rock, The Story of AC/DC, and Family Tradition: Three Generations of Hank Williams.

Gerry Max (PhD) has taught business communication at Concordia College, and writing across the curriculum and persuasive writing at Lakeland College. He writes on literature, history, and travel for individuals, institutions, corporations, news magazines, and journals.

Lissa McLaughlin Lissa McLaughlin, Madison, Wis., is an award-winning author whose work includes prose poetry, short stories, and a children?s picture book which she also illustrated. Her prose poem book, Enough, was published in 2001 by tel-let chapbooks. Her collection of fiction, poetry and photographs, The Grouper, was issued by Avec Press in 1997. The same year, Sun and Moon Press awarded her a Gertrude Stein Award for her fiction. Tel-let Press continues to publish chapbooks of her fiction and prose poetry. She has taught fiction for adults and children for over 25 years in a variety of venues across the country, including at the Rhode Island School of Design, San Francisco State University, and the UW-Madison Department of English. She has an M.A. in fiction writing from Brown University. She was also a producer at Wisconsin Public Radio for two years.

Kenneth A. Miller co-owns Miller Design and Consulting, specializing in publication design, onsite training, and video production services. He has also worked as an associate professor of graphic arts and as a video and visual editor for Capital Newspapers.

Joan Mills (MS, UW-Madison) is a dance specialist who has been named Wisconsin Dance Educator of the year by the National Dance Association.

Christopher Mohar teaches fiction and poetry for UW-Madison Continuing Studies and has taught writing in a men's correctional facility and as an after-school tutor. He's the recipient of a Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellowship.

Doug Meske is a psychotherapist who specializes in couples and family therapy. He has presented workshops throughout the U.S. on topics such as building relationships, taking care of emotional needs, and treatment issues.

David Mays (MD, PhD) is the past forensic clinical director at the Mendota Mental Health Institute in Madison. He also serves on the clinical faculty at UW-Madison and the Medical College of Wisconsin.