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Marco Buscaglia

jinwonchung — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:23:04 +0000

Marco Buscaglia earned his MA in Writing from DePaul University in 2009. He has worked as a reporter, producer and editor at Tribune Co. since 1994. His stories have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and the Miami Herald, among others. Buscaglia’s fiction and poetry have run in the Chicago Reader, Druid’s Cave and other publications. He is currently an adjunct composition instructor at Roosevelt University and lives in Chicago with his wife and their four children.

Billy Lombardo

jinwonchung — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:18:06 +0000

Billy Lombardo is the author of The Man with Two Arms, How to Hold a Woman, The Logic of a Rose: Chicago Stories and Meanwhile, Roxy Mourns. His forthcoming YA novel, The Day of the Palindrome, will be published by Razorbill in 2013. Billy is the 2011 recipient of the Nelson Algren Award for the Short Story. He is the founder and managing editor of Polyphony H.S., a student-run international literary magazine for high school writers and editors. He teaches at the Latin School of Chicago.

Christine Sneed

jinwonchung — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:53:06 +0000

Christine Sneed‘s first book, Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry, won AWP’s 2009 Grace Paley Prize in short fiction and was a finalist for the 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, first fiction category. It has been awarded Ploughshares magazine’s first book award and the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year in the traditionally published short fiction category. Her second book, a novel titled Little Known Facts, will be published by Bloomsbury Press in early 2013. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, The Southern Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Massachusetts Review, TriQuarterly Online, Notre Dame Review and a number of other journals. She is a member of the creative writing faculty at DePaul University and Northwestern University and lives in Evanston.

Scott Onak

jinwonchung — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:29:10 +0000

Scott Onak ‘s stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Mid-American Review, Willow Springs and Quick Fiction. He is program manager at StoryStudio Chicago, where he also teaches fiction.

Kate Harding

jinwonchung — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:25:49 +0000

Kate Harding is co-author of Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body, and founder of what was for a time the internet’s most popular body-acceptance blog, Shapely Prose. She has contributed to numerous online publications, including Salon, Jezebel, The Guardian and the L.A. Times, and published essays in the anthologies Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape (a Publisher’s Weekly Best Book of 2009) and Feed Me: Women Writers Dish About Food, Eating, Weight and Body Image.

Jennifer Ann Coffeen

jinwonchung — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:18:47 +0000

Jennifer Ann Coffeen‘s novel Priceless Deception, and novella Lover’s Gamble are both available now from The Wild Rose Press. She is a founding member and featured performer with the kates, a group of women solo performers who perform the last Saturday of every month at the Book Cellar in Lincoln Square. Jennifer has also written and performed original work as part of Numbskull, the Human Blockhead, The Muffin Basket Cases and Beastwomen Female Cabaret. She is a graduate of Columbia College and has studied at StoryStudio, where she currently works as part of the Chicago Literary Alliance. Jennifer is currently working on a novella series detailing the intersecting stories of three couples at London’s famed Beltane Ball.

M. Molly Backes

jinwonchung — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:09:34 +0000

M. Molly Backes is the assistant director of StoryStudio Chicago and the author of the young adult novel The Princesses of Iowa, which will be published in May 2012 by Candlewick Press. In addition to writing novels, Molly is a member of the 2012 class of bloggers at The Debutante Ball, pens the “Writing Tips” column for The Prairie Wind (the newsletter for the Illinois chapter of SCBWI) and is a frequent contributor to StoryStudio’s blog Cooler by the Lake. Her story “Teacher’s Pet” appears in the anthology Good Dogs Doing Good (LaChance, 2009).

Joshua Mohr

jinwonchung — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:20:55 +0000

Joshua Mohr is the author of the novels Termite Parade, which was an Editors’ Choice on The New York Times’ bestseller list, and Some Things that Meant the World to Me, one of O Magazine’s Top 10 Reads of 2009 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. He has published numerous short stories and essays in publications such as The New York Times Book Review, 7×7, the Bay Guardian, ZYZZYVA and The Rumpus, among many others. He lives in San Francisco and teaches in the MFA program at USF. His third novel, Damascus, is out this month.

Susan Solomon

jinwonchung — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:15:42 +0000

Susan Solomon is a writer and lawyer living in Chicago. Her fiction has appeared in a number of online and print publications including Polluto, Wilderness House Literary Review and Pebble Lake Review. Her story, “Smile Catchers,” was a “Commended” selection in Writelink‘s 2004 Weekender Challenge (United Kingdom), and her story, “Medici, for Beginners,” was selected as an Editor’s Choice story for 2005 by Pulse Magazine.

Richard Thomas

jinwonchung — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:11:13 +0000

Richard Thomas is the winner of the 2009 “Enter the World of Filaria” contest at ChiZine. He has published more than 40 stories online and in print, including the Shivers VI anthology with Stephen King and Peter Straub. His debut novel Transubstantiate was released in July of 2010.