Laura Vosika – Author (The Books)

Laura Vosika is a writer, poet, and musician. Her time travel series, The Blue Bells Chronicles, set in modern and medieval Scotland, has garnered praise and comparisons to writers as diverse as Diana Gabaldon and Dostoevsky. Her poetry has been published in The Moccasin and The Martin Lake Journal 2017.
She has been featured in newspapers, on radio, and TV, has spoken for regional book events, and hosted the radio program Books and Brews. She currently teaches writing at Minneapolis Community and Technical College.
As a musician, Laura has performed as on trombone, flute, and harp, in orchestras, and big bands. She lives in Brooklyn Park with 5 of her 9 children, 2 cats, and an Irish Wolfhound.

Michael Agnew – Certified Cicerone (The Brews)

As well as being an avid reader, Michael Agnew is Minnesota’s first Certified Cicerone®. As the owner of A Perfect Pint, he organizes beer tastings and beer dinners for private parties and corporate events. He has taught classes on beer appreciation and beer/food pairing at Cooks of Crocus Hill, the University of Minnesota, and many other locations. Michael’s Liquid Assets beer column can be read the first Thursday of every month in the Taste section of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. You can also catch his writing in his own Perfect Pint Beer Blog, Seriouseats.com, and The Growler Magazine, whose readers voted him Minnesota’s best beer writer for three consecutive years. Michael’s has published two books. Craft Beer for the Homebrewer – published by Voyageur Press – is a collection of commercial beer recipes scaled down for to homebrew batch sizes. A Perfect Pint’s Beer Guide to the Heartland – published by the the University of Illinois Press – is a guide to 236 breweries in Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois. www.aperfectpint.net 
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