Katherine Fischer is a writer who lives along the Mississippi River at Frentress Lake, Illinois. She is author of That’s Our Story and We’re Sticking To It, A.A. Cooper: Re-inventing the Wheel, and Dreaming the Mississippi. She is also Professor of English at Clarke University in Dubuque, Iowa, and writes regularly for newspapers, magazines, litmags, and journals. A feature columnist for the Dubuque Telegraph Herald, she came to the pottery world through Ken Bichell at a peace rally, Outside the Lines Art Gallery, and hanging out with potters at an old coffee shop in downtown Dubuque.