Kathy Borkowski landed in Madison as so many do, to attend graduate school at UW-Madison. She was a bit of a late bloomer ? 35 at the time ? owing to family tragedy. Her parents died when she was a teenager, leaving her to raise three younger siblings in South Bend, Ind. She didn?t begin her undergraduate coursework until age 30. The delayed start has not held her back. She went on to earn two master?s degrees, one in history, the other in library sciences. In 2004, she became director of the Wisconsin Historical Society Press, the state?s oldest book publisher.
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