Vickie McGillis is an award-winning published poet and author of the popular “Detours to the Good Stuff” book series, which is based on a true story set in Southeastern Minnesota and spanning forty years, from 1962-2002.  During the decade in which it took to compile and write this epic family saga, Vickie worked from home as a medical transcriptionist.  Her latest book, “Congenital Witness,” published in October of 2019, is her first fiction novel, which is based on an extraordinarily vivid dream she had back in 2009.  Now, ten years later, that amazing reverie has materialized into a published novel, which she hopes will hit the big screen one day.  Vickie is also a proud supporter of various charities to benefit humanity, animal welfare, wildlife and planet conservation.  She and her husband reside in the picturesque river city of Winona, Minnesota, along with their rescued four-legged companions.