Marco Buscaglia
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.
Christine Sneed
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 …
Scott Onak
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
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
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 …
M. Molly Backes
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
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
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
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.
Kate Zambreno
Kate Zambreno’s first published novel, O Fallen Angel, won Chiasmus Press’ “Undoing the Novel — First Book Contest” and was named as one of the best books of 2010 by Bookslut. Another novel, Green Girl, is out this month from Emergency Press. Heroines, a critical memoir revolving around the women of modernism, some of which was incubated on her blog Frances Farmer is My Sister, will be published by Semiotext(e)’s Active Agents series in Fall 2012. She is a prose editor at Nightboat Books, and recently curated a series called Prose Event that interrogated the intersection of fiction and …
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