Dan Williams
Veteran journalist and educator
Dan Williams started out in journalism at the Examiner-Enterprise in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Across a varied career, he worked for United Press International in Oklahoma, for U.S. broadcaster Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Munich, in Atlanta for CNN, and in in Washington, D.C., for China Global Television News. He taught journalism for ten years at universities in Alabama, Vermont, and China, where he spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar. He is a writing coach and speaks to journalism classes on writing, editing and research. The forthcoming true crime story, Madeline Gets Life, is his first book.
M.J. Van Deventer, Author
Longtime Oklahoma writer and editor
M.J. Van Deventer is an inductee of the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame and the author or co-author of seven books on interior design. Her first newspaper job was lifestyle editor at the News-Press in Stillwater, Oklahoma, where she met Madeline Webb, the subject of her forthcoming true crime tale, Madeline Gets Life. Van Deventer also worked for the Tulsa Tribune, the Tulsa World, the Daily Oklahoman, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and the Muskogee Phoenix; she was editor of Oklahoma Home & Lifestyle Magazine and publications director at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. She taught journalism at the University of Central Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University as an adjunct and is a frequent public speaker for civic groups.
