Allyson Walters
Allyson Walters is a Chicagoan and refugee of the research sciences,which she left behind two years ago to focus on the writing she always loved. Her next stop is the School of the Art Institute, where she will begin a graduate program in writing this fall. She is currently working on her first novel, as well as a collection of short stories based on Irish and British folklore.
Rahnee Patrick
Rahnee Patrick writes fictional and non-fiction essays to explore the lives of marginal folks, particularly lives of women, Asian Americans, and people with disabilities. In 1996, Rahnee won the Women's Studies Essay Contest, Creative Category for her fictional essay The Living. In that same year, her short story Virtual Reality was awarded First Place in the short story competition of the Lester M. Wolfson Award writing contest. In 2000, Am I Who?, a non-fiction essay was first published Face2Face Press, a Web forum that discussed interracial concerns. Instructors frequently use Am I Who? as one of many representations of the Asian American experience.
Steven Sacks
Steven Sacks: Since returning to Chicago from Ecuador, where he lived for 12 years and founded the country's first certified organic farm, Steven Sacks has read his short stories on Chicago Public Radio's Writer's Block Party, at the Uptown Writer's Space, and for the "Mortified" show at the Green Mill, where he was also the featured performer for the "2007 Best of Mortified."
Philip Stone
Philip Stone is a Chicago musician and writer. He currently plays drums for the nationally touring rock band, Sanawon. His short fiction has appeared in the anthology Life Sentences (Wipf and Stock, 2007) and Montage Magazine. Philip was a Splendid Magazine music critic for several years, but stopped once the threatening hate mail mentioned his family members by name. After a two year hiatus and strong encouragement from his therapist, Philip is writing again. Philip has a day job.
Lindsay Hunter
Lindsay Hunter is a writer living in Chicago. She is the co-founder and co-host of the Quickies! reading series. Her work has previously been published in McSweeney's Internet Tendency and Nerve, and is forthcoming in Featherproof as well as Make Magazine.
Sam Reaves
Sam Reaves has written seven Chicago-based crime novels, including the Cooper MacLeish series, the Dooley series and the forthcoming stand-alone Mean Town Blues. Under the pen name Dominic Martell he has authored a European-based suspense trilogy. Reaves has traveled widely in Europe and the Middle East but has lived in the Chicago area most of his life. He has worked as a teacher and a translator. More about Sam Reaves at http://www.samreaves.com/.
Mamoud Saeed
Mahmoud Saeed is a prominent and award-winning Iraqi novelist. He has written more than 20 novels and short story collections, including Port Said and Other Stories, which was published in 1957. The first military-Baathist Iraqi government seized two of his novels in 1963. Saeed was imprisoned several times and he left Iraq in 1985 after the authorities banned the publication of some of his novels, including Zanka bin Baraka (1970), which nevertheless won the Ministry of Information Award in 1993. His new novel The World in Angel’s Eyes will be published in Cairo, Egypt. You can read more about Mahmoud Saeed at http://www.arabworldbooks.com/authors/mahmoud_saeed.html
Molly Dumbleton
Molly Dumbleton is Managing Editor of a small publishing house in Evanston, where she is the founding editor of two children’s magazines as well as countless books, CDs, and toys that look cute until you know how much work they involve. She’s a freelance writer and editor with a specialty in environmental education and marketing, and also teaches Creative Writing to adult students at DePaul University . In the spare (ha ha) moments sprinkled over the last four and a half years, she’s been slowly chiseling away at a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from Northwestern, which she is inordinately proud to have just, finally, happily, great-big-sigh-edly completed.
Jill Pollack
Jill Pollack, founder of StoryStudio Chicago, is an award-winning communications consultant, writer and editor. A published author with 15 years experience in corporate communications, Jill teaches creative writing to individuals and leads customized seminars for businesses and professionals. Her work has appeared on the Internet, in newspapers, magazines, trade periodicals and political journals. Jill has authored three books for young adults: , Shirley Chisholm (First Book) named a Best Book by Science and Film Magazine; Lesbian and Gay Families: Redefining Parenting in America; and Women on the Hill: A History of Women in Congress (Women Then–Women Now). She is currently working on a novel and short ...
Bruce Olds
Bruce Olds is the author of three novels: Bucking the Tiger, an American Library Association Notable Book adapted from the stage as The Confessions of Doc Holliday, and Raising Holy Hell, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and an IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Nominee that was also named Novel of the Year by the Notable Books Council of the ALA and winner of the QPB New Voices Award for Fiction, and The Moments Lost: A Midwest Pilgrim’s Progress, also a Pulitzer Prize finalist. His nonfiction work has appeared in Granta and American Heritage, among other publications, and has been anthologized by the MIT Press and Modern Library. He lives in Chicago where ...
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