2022 Northwoods Book Festival Events

Author Pao Lor will visit the Frank B. Koller Memorial Library in Manitowish Waters on Tuesday, June 14, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. In Modern Jungles, Pao shares his childhood journey, leaving an ancient culture in Laos in the 1970s and establishing a new life in the United States in the 1980s. The memoir captures the beginning… Read more: Author Pao Lor visits the Koller Library

Mildred “Tinker” Schuman (Migizikwe) and Elizabeth “Beth” Tornes will speak at the Boulder Junction Public Library on Thursday, June 16 at 6 pm in the Boulder Junction Community Center Boulder Lake Meeting Room. Their poetry reading is part of the Northwoods Book Festival, a series of events sponsored by seven local libraries to be held… Read more: Lac du Flambeau poets to visit the Boulder Junction Public Library

Also featuring special guest Mildred “Tinker” Schuman (Migizikwe)  Leon Ozaawaagosh Valliere will speak at the Waaswaaganing Indian Bowl in Lac du Flambeau on Tuesday, June 21, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. His talk is sponsored by the Ben Guthrie Lac du Flambeau Library as part of the Northwoods Book Festival, a series of events sponsored by… Read more: Leon Ozaawaagosh Valliere discusses Lac du Flambeau history in library-sponsored event

James Edward Mills, author of The Adventure Gap: Changing the face of the outdoors, will speak at the Boulder Junction Community Center on Thursday, June 30 at 6:00 p.m. His talk is the headline event of the 2022 Northwoods Book Festival, a series of events sponsored by seven local libraries to be held throughout the… Read more: Author James Edward Mills discusses The Adventure Gap in Northwoods Book Festival headline event

Maria Alvarez Stroud, author of Brave Crossing: a journey in-between, will visit the Minocqua Public Library on Tuesday, July 12 at 6:00 p.m. The event is part of the Northwoods Book Festival, a series of events sponsored by seven local libraries to be held throughout the summer. Maria’s passion for historical fiction began in college,… Read more: Maria Alvarez Stroud to visit Minocqua Public Library

Duachaka Her will visit the Winchester Public Library on Tuesday, July 26 at 4:00 p.m. present on her recent mini comic, “Tradition,” share her writing and illustration process, and well as dive into the ups and downs of being a diverse author/illustrator. The event is part of the Northwoods Book Festival, a series of events… Read more: Cartoonist Duachaka Her to visit the Winchester Public Library

Local authors Tinker Schuman (Migizikwe) and John Bates will read from a selection of their prose and poetry centered around the seasonal turnings in nature and in our lives. The event will be held at the Mercer Public Library on Thursday, July 28 at 6:00 p.m., and is part of the Northwoods Book Festival, a series of events sponsored… Read more: Tinker Schuman (Migizikwe) and John Bates, Poetry Reading at Mercer Library

Quan (Amy) Barry, author of We Ride Upon Sticks, will visit the Presque Isle Community Library on Tuesday, August 9, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. The event is part of the Northwoods Book Festival, a series of events sponsored by seven local libraries to be held throughout the summer.   Born in Saigon and raised on… Read more: Author Quan (Amy) Barry to visit the Presque Isle Community Library

Melissa Faliveno will speak at the Boulder Junction Public Library on Thursday, August 11 at 6 pm in the Boulder Junction Community Center Boulder Lake Meeting Room. Her talk is part of the Northwoods Book Festival, a series of events sponsored by seven local libraries to be held throughout the summer.   Faliveno’s book TOMBOYLAND was named a Best… Read more: Author Melissa Faliveno at Boulder Junction Library