Maggie Ginsberg is an associate editor of Madison Magazine. She joined the editorial team in December 2020 but has written award-winning features and cover stories for the magazine since 2007. In addition to overseeing columnists and freelancers on features, Maggie writes the monthly Innovation column focused on entrepreneurial business news, and literary coverage including web exclusive author Q&As and Madison Magazine’s monthly Sunday Reads newsletter. When she’s not at work, she’s an author herself, with a debut novel forthcoming from the University of Wisconsin Press in Fall 2022. She loves anything having to do with books, running in the woods and following her dog around with her camera phone.
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Crowning Madison’s cutest pets
We concluded that every one of the entries could have been a winner, and browsing this cross-section of pets gives us confidence to say: The Madison area officially has some of the cutest pets around.
There’s a good chance that even if Belle Case La Follette hadn’t become half of one of Wisconsin’s most famous power couples, history would have learned her name anyway.
Three women, two secrets, one lie — a Q&A with author Maggie Smith
Before the Wisconsin author published her debut novel, 'Truth and Other Lies,' the podcaster earned a Ph.D. in psychology and founded an art consulting company.
New husband-and-wife startup connects kids with a mental health professional within days
Bend Health is a fully virtual, interdisciplinary telehealth treatment solution working with remote practitioners to provide customized treatment plans to children ages 1 to 17.
Going back to basics is the way forward for two interrelated educational efforts
The Driftless Folk School, a unique educational effort based on a century-old Scandinavian tradition, draws students and instructors from far and wide, including Madison.
Youth coach and gang intervention specialist’s new book launches days after his death
Joshua William Clauer died on Feb. 21, at age 48, a week before a scheduled book launch celebration. Here is a Q&A with his co-author, Judith Gwinn Adrian.
Madison history lesson: Time stands still at the Wisconsin Historical Society Reading Room
Time appears to be standing still in this deft, chills-inducing work by award-winning photographer Patrick Stutz, which seamlessly blends a 1914 archival photo with his 2022 photo.
Little Creek Press creates a unique, innovative book publishing model
Kristin Mitchell built her own small business over the past 25 years — a little, eponymous design shop nestled creekside in the valley at her Mineral Point home.
The 2022 big book list of Wisconsin-connected reads
This year we present our largest annual look at the literary scene, featuring author profiles, a guide to independent bookshops and more local reads than ever before.
Dean Robbins transforms complex adult biographies into accessible, fun books for kids
It could easily be mistaken for overnight success, or a sudden career pivot, but it’s really just the latest chapter in a story that started 20 years ago.
Doug Moe’s next book adds to his already impressive writing career
Doug Moe is a veritable literary machine, having written or edited more than a dozen books and literally thousands of newspaper and magazine columns over the past 40-plus years.
Longtime organic farmer is applying the regenerative agriculture concept to Dane County’s real estate market
When Mark Voss began thinking about a career shift and got his Realtor’s license in 2017, he quickly grew to love working with people to help them find just the right home — but he admits he struggled to align real estate’s consumptive nature with his sustainability background and values.
New local startup aims to remove barriers, streamline services for assault survivors
Rachel Sattler and Kim Curran hope to alleviate the overwhelming steps for survivors with their nonprofit, the Dane County Multi-Agency Center, or DaneMAC.
#EndOverdose: advocates bring awareness to Dane County’s ongoing opioid overdose epidemic
Even as the crisis worsens in Dane County and overdose deaths across the country approached 100,000 in a 12-month period for the first time ever, some promising harm reduction initiatives are giving rise to something else: Hope.
From its first appearance on our Best of Madison list — “Best Auto Mechanic” in 1993 — to six golds in 2021 alone, Zimbrick has snagged a “best of” award 61 times.
Annie Vang created the HmongPhrases app to help preserve her endangered language and it also earned her the only U.S. spot in Apple’s eCamp for Female Founders and Developers in July 2021.
Early-stage biotech startups find common ground at Forward BIOLABS
At Forward BIOLABS in University Research Park, a nonprofit coworking life sciences lab founded in September 2018, members can rent space by the 6-foot bench.