Lisa Floading is a Milwaukee-area educator, writer, and typewriter collector, and the Coordinator of Tutoring Services at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. In this interview, she discusses her collection of 63 mid-century portable typewriters, including models in her collection like those used by writers William Faulkner and Sylvia Plath. She discusses the benefits of typewriting for curbing perfectionism in creative writers, and about the necessity and pleasure of basic typewriter repair, including why you should never, ever try to disassemble a Swedish typewriter. She is interviewed by Blessing Uwisike, a UWM graduate student who also has long experience with manual typewriters.

Judi Mucklin is a resident of Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, and worked as a typing teacher in Milwaukee Public Schools from 1972 to 2011. She began and ended her career teaching business classes at Pulaski High School, and in between also taught at North Division High School and South Division High School. In this interview, Judi recalls the value of learning on a manual typewriter, notes the surprising benefits of typing for bilingual education, remembers a time when police officers were required to learn touch typing, and shares her own experiences learning from typing teacher and speed champion Cortez Peters. Judi is interviewed by Blessing Uwisike, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Originally from Nigeria, Blessing also learned to type on a manual typewriter.