CONTRIBUTORS

Door County Living and Peninsula Pulse copy editor PAULA APFELBACH thinks people should start wearing fedoras again — preferably tipped at a rakish angle.

SALLY COLLINS is a librarian at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College who lives in Sturgeon Bay with her photographer husband, geese-obsessed daughter and snuggly cat.

Writer and editor MYLES DANNHAUSEN JR. has been searching out stories for Door County Living since 2005. A board member of Write On, Door County, he lives in Sister Bay with his wife, Anne; and their son, Connor.

JESS FARLEY is a sales manager for Door County Living and the Peninsula Pulse. Food is her passion, and practicing creativity in the kitchen is her happy place — preferably when paired with good company, great music and a full-bodied cabernet.

DEBRA FITZGERALD is the editor of the Peninsula Pulse. She is thrilled to be back and is enchanted daily by her reacquaintance with the peninsula’s people and places. She’s living the good life north of Sturgeon Bay with her partner, Louis “Luther” Cole.

JESSICA GATZOW studies journalism at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and interned at the Peninsula Pulse. She enjoys exploring the outdoors — and writing about it, too.

GRACE JOHNSON is the special issues editor and a book nerd. Her overweight cat and a floppy paperback bring her much joy; her favorite word is petrichor. CAROLYN KANE is Professor Emerita of English at Culver-Stockton College in Canton, Missouri. Today she lives and writes in Door County. She is the author of the novel Taking Jenny Home, which was named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2014. Her latest novel is A Fiddler at Death’s Door.

When BRETT KOSMIDER isn’t wandering off into the wilds, he usually has a camera in front of his face taking photographs or, as a co-founder and the creative director of Peninsula Filmworks, is producing videos about the people and places of Door County.

Peninsula Pulse photographer and videographer, RACHEL LUKAS, graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and interned at the Pulse during the summer of 2021. She loves taking photos in Door County and looks forward to becoming more familiar with the community.

Since her husband Roy’s passing in 2016, CHARLOTTE LUKES writes to fulfill his mission to help educate and inspire readers to learn, care for and protect our native species and the natural world.

Door County Living and Peninsula Pulse creative director RYAN MILLER excessively exercises his imagination to keep creatively fit.

JUSTIN SKIBA is a Sevastopol educator who lives in Sturgeon Bay with his wife, Stephanie; and daughters, Delaney and Amelia. He has a passion for cinema, period dramas and the art of mindful living.

(Left, top to bottom) Paula Apfelbach, Sally Collins, Myles Dannhausen Jr., Jess Farley, Debra Fitzgerald, Jessica Gatzow, Grace Johnson, Carolyn Kane, Brett Kosmider, Rachel Lukas, Charlotte Lukes, Ryan Miller, Justin Skiba.