Jerry Apps was born and raised on a central Wisconsin farm. He is a former county extension agent and professor emeritus for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Today he works as a rural historian, full-time writer, and creative writing instructor. Jerry is the author of more than forty fiction, nonfiction, and children's books, many of them on rural history, country life, and storytelling. His work has won awards from the American Library Association, the Wisconsin Library Association, the Wisconsin Historical Society, and the Council for Wisconsin Writers, and he has created five hour-long documentaries about farm life and country living with Wisconsin Public Television. He and his wife, Ruth, divide their time between their home in Madison and their farm, Roshara, in Waushara County.
