Mike Dauplaise was already working at the Green Bay Press-Gazette when he graduated from St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wis., in 1984 with a B.A. in Communications. His 13-year newspaper career included time in the sports, news, features and copy desk departments, providing a broad range of experience from which to draw.

After stops at the Wausau Daily Herald and the Green Bay News-Chronicle, as well as a return trip to the Press-Gazette, Mike went into the less hectic corporate communications world at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical Center in Green Bay. He immediately began contributing as a freelance writer for a variety of publications and corporate clients.

Eventually, corporate and publication demand was sufficient to allow Mike to become a full-time freelance writer. Projects include everything from articles, annual reports, brochures and other print pieces, video scripts and web projects.

In 2008, he released his first book, “Bodyguard to the Packers – Beat Cops, Brett Favre and Beating Cancer,” with Jerry Parins, the Green Bay Packers’ long-time director of security, and in 2009 he released a true crime thriller entitled “Torture at the Back Forty,” the story of a famous Green Bay murder case that ended up as one of the first captures on the America’s Most Wanted television show.