Michael Erlewine has pursued a dynamic and influential path through life; aside from the books he has authored, he is noted for several other pursuits and accomplishments as a musician, astrologer, computer programmer, and internet entrepreneur.

As a musician, Erlewine was active in the early 1960s folk scene, and later formed the band Prime Movers, whose early members included the alternative music icon Iggy Pop. According to biographer Jim Ambrose, Iggy Pop’s time with the band had a significant influence on his awareness of art, politics, and creative experimentation.

As an internet entrepreneur, Erlewine founded the seminal All Music Guide, which was the online presence of the respected print version of the same name, and an indispensible guide to musical artists and the music business in its era. He also created other early 2000’s sites like ClassicPosters.com.

Erlewine is also a noted astrologer, with a twist: he created the first sophisticated astrology programs, and left a lasting impact on the entire field as a result. In the words of Noel Tyl, internationally known astrologer and author author of 34 books on astrology: “Michael Erlewine is the giant influence whose creativity is forever imprinted on all astrologers’ work since the beginning of the computer era! He is the man who single-handedly applied computer technology to astrological measurement, research, and interpretation, and has been the formative and leading light of astrology’s modern growth. Erlewine humanized it all, adding perception and incisive practical analyses to modern, computerized astrology.

Born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Erlewine was long a familiar face as a resident of Ann Arbor. He currently resides in Big Rapids, Michigan.

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Jeff Kass teaches Creative Writing and English Literature at Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor MI and is the founder and director of the nationally renowned Literary Arts Programs at Ann Arbor’s Teen Center The Neutral Zone. He earned his MFA in Creative Writing through the Stonecoast program at the University of Southern Maine.

Kass is the author of the award-winning chapbooks Invisible Staircase and From the Front of the Room, and co-author (with Scott Beal) of the teaching guidebook Underneath: The Archaeological Approach to Teaching Creative Writing.

Of his 2014 title My Beautiful Hook-Nosed Beauty Queen Strut Wave, National Book Award finalist Tim Seibles says: “These are the poems of many men who grew up in this country bursting at the seams with boyness, who did the best they could to grow into useful men – fathers, teachers, plumbers. Line by line, this book unfolds like a well made movie.”

His debut short story collection, Knuckleheads, was selected as a finalist by ForeWord Magazine as 2011’s Best Short Fiction Collection of the Year, as a silver medalist by E-Lit for Best Short Fiction E-Book Collection of 2011 and as the Gold Medalist for Independent Publishers Best Short Fiction Collection of 2011.

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Born in Britain to Welsh and Chinese parents, Peter Ho Davies now makes his home in the Ann Arbor, and is currently on the faculty of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan. Prior to his position at UM, he taught at the University of Oregon, Emory University, and Northwestern University.

As well as authoring three titles – the novel The Welsh Girl and the story collections The Ugliest House in the World and Equal Love – Davies’ work has appeared in Harpers, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, The Guardian, Independent, Washington Post and Chicago Tribune, among others.

Davies’ short fiction has been widely anthologized, and been selected for a number of prizes; most recently, Granta magazine included him among its twenty “Best of Young British Novelists” in 2003. His title The Welsh Girl was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2007, and short-listed for The Galaxy British Book Awards ‘Richard and Judy’ Best Read in 2008.

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After growing up in Pennsylvania, Florida, and Connecticut, Jacqui Robbins went on to graduate from Yale with a degree in Theater and Anthropology. Though she had dreams of being a famous theater director, she decided to work with children instead, working as a drama teacher, an SAT tutor, a bookstore shelver and story-reader, and even typist, before realizing that her real passion was to teach children to read and write.

Robbins’ first title, The New Girl … and Me was published by Simon & Schuster in 2006, and featured in General Mills’ “Spoonfuls of Stories” promotion, which placed children’s stories from select authors in millions of boxes of cereal in the US and Mexico. She continues to write, and also teaches at Ann Arbor’s Allen Creek Preschool, directs plays for the Penny Seats Theatre Company and for 826michigan, where she previously served as president of the board.

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Peter Morville was born in Manchester, England. He holds a graduate degree in Library and Information Science, having graduated from the University of Michigan School of Information in 1993. He has since served on their faculty and received an Alumni Achievement Award for his work in information science.

Morville may be best known as an influential figure and founding father of information architecture, having coauthored the best-selling book in the discipline, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web. For over a decade, he has advised such clients as AT&T, Dow Chemical, Ford, the IMF, the Library of Congress, and Microsoft.

As well as having authored several books related to the field, including Ambient Findability, Intertwingled, and Search Patterns: Design for Discovery, Morville regularly delivers keynotes and seminars on the topic at international events. His work has also been featured in major publications like Business Week, Fortune, and The Wall Street Journal.

Currently the president of Semantic Studios, an information architecture and findability consulting firm, Morville lives in Ann Arbor with his wife, two daughters, and a dog named Knowsy.

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