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Sunday, April 27th: 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. 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 some of his stories at Amazon.com. 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 Sunday, March 30th @ 7:30pm  MARY ANNE MOHANRAJ is the author of BODIES IN MOTION, a set of Sri Lankan-American linked stories, covering two families and three generations (HarperCollins). She currently teaches fiction writing and Asian American literature at Northwestern University, and is working on a mainstream novel, a memoir/travelogue, and a YA fantasy novel. Mohanraj recently received an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Prose. She currently serves as the Executive Director of DesiLit (www.desilit.org), an organization that works to support S. Asian and diaspora literature, and also directs the Speculative Literature Foundation(www.speclit.org). Mohanraj was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka. http://www.maryannemohanraj.com ELIZABETH WETMORE's stories have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Crazyhorse, Black Warrior Review, Crab Orchard Review, and other journals. A recent story can be read at http://www.saltflatsannual.com/annual.html. She is currently writing two books: a novel set in the oil fields of West Texas and a collection of short stories set in Phoenix, Arizona. Both projects have been nurtured and sustained by the love and faith of her friends and family as well as generous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council. She is also grateful to the good people at StoryStudio Chicago for providing advice, community, and excellent coffee. Elizabeth lives in Chicago with the poet Jorge Sánchez, their son Hank, and two grumpy old cats. CONNOR COYNE grew up in the East Village of Flint, Michigan. He received degrees from the University of Chicago and the New School in New York City. He is a cofounder of the Gothic Funk Nation, and his work has been featured in the Saturnine Detractor. He and his wife, Jessica, are the proud parents of three bloodfin tetras and a very inquisitive (stuffed) shark named Sharky. Connor lives in Uptown, Chicago, and maintains a website at www.hereisnowhy.com *January 27th BRUCE OLDS is the author of three novels: Bucking the Tiger, an American Library Association Notable Book adapted fro 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 he currently is working on a Civil War era set in that city, tentatively entitled "The Camp." 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, 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. She is currently working on a novel and short story collection. 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. And our very own Salon co-host, Make Mag, Chicago extraordinaire MIKE ZAPATA! Archives: 2007 NOVEMBER Cris Mazza is the author of over a dozen books of fiction, most recently Waterbaby, released this month from Soft Skull Press. Her other fiction titles include the critically notable Is It Sexual Harassment Yet?, and the PEN Nelson Algren Award winning How to Leave a Country. She also has a collection of personal essays, Indigenous: Growing Up Californian. Mazza has had a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and three Illinois Arts Council literary awards. A native of Southern California, Mazza grew up in San Diego County. Currently she lives 50 miles west of Chicago and is a professor in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Hiding Out Jonathan Messinger is the author of the short story collection, Hiding Out. He's also the books editor of Time Out Chicago and founder and co-host of The Dollar Store Show, a literary and comedy series featuring performances inspired by junk purchased from a dollar store. In 2005 he was named one of Chicago's Top 30 Under 30 by UR Chicago, and in 2007 he was named to Newcity's top 50 literary figures in Chicago. He co-publishes Featherproof Books, and his fiction has appeared in various places, including Resonance and Rainbow Curve, and is forthcoming in Other Voices and Awake!, an anthology from Soft Skull Press. Stacy Hope Jones is a writer, poet, and founder of Waxing Gibbous Press, a small press of illustrated books for children and grown-ups filled with fantastical characters in real and make-believe worlds.Working in marketing for educational publishing for 12 years, Stacy has experience creating books and other products for Encyclopedia Britannica and currently with Shakespeare Squared. There she works with Simon & Schuster Children’s Books and Harper Collins Children’s’ and some of her writing in Spanish and English can be found at ICanRead.com and in the children’s book Secret of the Sphinx from SRA McGraw Hill’s school division. Stacy was honored with a National Merit Scholarship and received a B.A. in Film and Media Communications from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Stacy has continued to study short fiction and novel writing with StoryStudio Chicago for 2 years and will receive its Certificate of Creative Writing in Fall of 2007. October: Elizabeth Reeder,lived in Glasgow, Scotland for twelve years and her fiction appears in respected journals and anthologies in the UK and the US (Women’s Press, Polygon, Hanging Loose, Chapman, PN Review). Recently, she had an original drama, stories and an abridgement broadcast on BBC Radio 4. An excerpt of her novel, The Fremont Inheritance, has just been published by Long Lunch Press and is one in a series of slim volumes which pair well-known authors (Irvine, Welsh, Annie Proulx, James Meek, Edwin Morgan) with newbies, such as herself. She now lives in Chicago researching and writing her next novel and completing her PhD in Creative Writing. Kristina Marie Darling is an undergraduate at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of four chapbooks, which include Fevers and Clocks (March Street Press, 2006) and The Traffic in Women (Dancing Girl Press, 2006). A Pushcart Prize nominee in 2006, her work has appeared in many publications, which include The Mid-America Poetry Review, PIF Magazine, Janus Head, The Midwest Book Review, The Arabesques Review, and others. Recent awards include residencies at the Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow and the Mary Anderson Center for the Arts. Tres Macdonald grew up outside of Philadelphia, PA, and holds a M.S. in Integrated Marketing and Communications from Northwestern University. After a stint in consulting, she found her way to Chicago’s non-profit arts and culture industry. She worked for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and was the Founding President of Urban Gateways Center for Arts Education’s Junior Board. Currently, Tres is a freelance marketing professional and is working on her first novel. September 30: Since 1994, Jennifer Harris' poetry has appeared in numerous national literary magazines including multiple publications in the New York Quarterly, Fish Stories, and HLLQ. Her first novel, PINK, was published in January 2007 by Haworth Press. She received her MFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and her BA from The University of Arizona. Elizabeth Bagby is a Chicago writer, actor, and musician. She is a founding member of Sansculottes Theater Company, who produced her musical Practical Anatomy at the Storefront Theater last year. She has performed with numerous Chicago companies, including Sansculottes, Trap Door, the Right Brain Project, Striding Lion, Tangerine Arts Group, Raven, Talisman, and the Velvet Willies; currently she is rehearsing the next Right Brain Project show, Chalk, and a Web sitcom entitled Julie's House. Bagby's writing has appeared in Dramatics, Conversely, The Tap, The Writing Group Book (Chicago Review Press), and Interpreting Ecclesiastes (Wipf & Stock), and has been runner-up for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship and the William Faulkner Creative Writing Awards. This year Press 53 published The Crazy Garden, her first novel.
Rudolph Delson was born in 1975 in San Jose, California. He went to Stanford and later NYU Law, and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. His novel Maynard & Jennica will be published by Houghton Mifflin in September of 2007. www.rudolphdelson.com www.maynardandjennica.com Adam Levin holds an M.A. in Clinical Social Work from The University of Chicago and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. His short stories have appeared in a number of publications, including Tin House, McSweeney’s, and St. Petersburg Review. He lives in Chicago, where he teaches at Columbia College and The Art Institute, and hosts The Myopic Fiction Series.
August 26th Kim Morris is a writer living in Chicago. She is a member of the story development team of 2nd Story. She writes Power Love(www.power-love.blogspot.com http://www.power-love.blogspot.com)and short stories. By day she slays dangling modifiers while wearing her editor's cape. By nights and weekends, she fails brilliantly at bike racing. J. Adams Oaks grew up in Madison, Wisconsin and lives in Chicago. He received his MFA in Fiction Writing from Columbia College. His work has appeared in The Tap, Sleepwalk, The Madison Review, and the River-Oak Review. His first novel, Why I Fight, will soon be published by Simon and Schuster. A chapter of that novel appeared in Hairtrigger 21 and won the National Society of Arts and Letters regional competition. He has written for and performed in Serendipity Theatre’s 2nd Story Festival, and his story Connected that Way won Chicago Public Radio’s “Stories On Stage” contest in 2005. Joe Tower is a writer and performer from Dubuque, IA. He is a member of serendipity theatre collective and the founder of cursed with words theatre. He wishes his sign was Libra. June 25, 2007: Jean Thompson is the author of Throw Like a Girl (Simon & Schuster, June 2007) as well as the novel City Boy; the short story collection Who Do You Love, a 1999 National Book Award finalist for fiction; and the novel Wide Blue Yonder, a New York Times Notable Book and Chicago Tribune Best Fiction selection for 2002. Her short fiction has been published in many magazines and journals, including The New Yorker, and been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prize. Jean's work has been praised by Elle Magazine as "bracing and wildly intelligent writing that explores the nature of love in all its hidden and manifest dimensions." Jean's other books include the short story collections The Gasoline Wars and Little Face, and the novels My Wisdom and The Woman Driver. Jean has been the recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, among other accolades, and taught creative writing at the University of Illinois--Champaign/ Urbana, Reed College, Northwestern University, and many other colleges and universities.xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Jenn Hollmeyer is a writer, painter and graphic designer who has worked in a variety of publishing and marketing environments. She also serves as Art Editor / Designer of Fifth Wednesday Journal, a new biannual literary magazine that will make its debut on October 31, 2007. Her stories and poems have appeared in Ariel, ART TIMES and Rivulets. Originally from North Carolina, she and her husband now live in the Chicago suburbs. Ruan Wright was born and raised in Great Britain. She has lived in the southwestern suburbs of Chicago since 1996. She has published poems and short stories in a variety of journals, most recently ART TIMES, RADIX, WINDHOVER, MOON JOURNAL, and THE TAJ MAHAL REVIEW. She is currently working on a fantasy novel for young adults as well as putting together a chapbook of poetry. She is co-chair of the Naperville Writers Group 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 some of his stories at Amazon.com. Fred Sasaki has written fiction, naughty stories, and et cetera for MAKE , Newcity, Venus Zine, featherproof books, and others. He is the founding editor of the Printers' Ball—an annual celebration of literature in Chicago, the assistant editor for Poetry, and editor at large for Stop Smiling. Kate Duva is a writer, a dancer, and a teacher of young children. Her fiction has appeared in Hair Trigger magazine and she was selected as a finalist in the 2005 Chicago Guild Complex Prose competition. She is at work on a novel inspired by her adventures in rural Bosnia. March 25, 2007: Happy 1st birthday party! Sunday Salon Chicago turns one. To celebrate, along with some out of town guests and the new OV author, we will have cupcakes (and a champagne toast--thanks to the Charleson Bar's wonderful owner Wendy!) Don’t miss it! OV Books Presents Corrina Wycoff:
 O Street by Corrina Wycoff OV Books second title Corrina Wycoff's fiction and essays have appeared in Other Voices, New Letters, Coal City Review, The Oregon Quarterly, Brainchild, Out of Line, Golden Handcuffs, and the anthologies Best Essays Northwest and The Clear Cut Future. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Oregon, and an MA in English from the University of Illinois, Chicago. She lives with her son in Seattle, Washington, and teaches English and writing at Pierce College.and from Salon NYC, fellow New School Alums…
Caroline Berger has an MFA from The New School in New York City where she currently teaches creative writing online. She was most appalled by a recent course evaluation response in which a student claimed that what would make the course better is if there were "an introductory lecture by the professor videotaped and then webcast." Caroline enjoys teaching in her pajamas with bad daytime TV on in the background. Her short prose has appeared most recently in La Petite Zine, Pindeldyboz, and Barrow Street. She was a 2004 Artist in Residence at The Artists' Enclave at I-Park, a 2006 juror for the Scholastic Writing Awards, and is currently a second year mentor for Girls Write Now, a nonprofit volunteer mentoring organization that has been matching bright, creative teenage girls from New York City's public high schools with professional women writers in the community since 1998
www.girlswritenow.org She is also the Development Director for the Program Board of Girls Write Now, so please give her some money because it will make her job easier. For the past five years, she has co-curated Sunday Salon New York. For the past three years, she has not slept. In theory, she is working on a short prose collection, a novel, a children's book about ethnically diverse feet, and a memoir about her spunky little German grandmother. She congratulates Sunday Salon Chicago on their illustrious first birthday, wishes for many more, and is pleased to announce the latest addition to the Sunday Salon family: Sunday Salon Nairobi. Sunday Salon Antarctica is sure to follow.
Rebecca Leece studied at the New School MFA program and the Harvard Extension School. She's taught at Parsons School of Design and City University of New York. Rebecca has also worked at the publications BOMB, Esquire, and was the prose editor of Lit Magazine. She recently left her teaching position at CUNY to write full-time, focusing on short stories, essays, and children's literature. Currently, she's enamored with Marcel Proust.
Melanie Pappadis - see bio in 'about us' section
February 25, 2007: "Sunday Salon's Alumni Month": Paul Jones has had a story appear in The Greensboro Review and read an essay for WBEZ. His story Documentary was selected by Stuart Dybek as the winner in the 2005 Guild Complex Fiction competition, and appeared in MAKE magazine. He has recently been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
He is the founder and faculty sponsor of Polyphony H.S., a national literary magazine for High School Writers. He has just completed his second book, a novel, titled "The Man with Two Arms." Katie Watson is the author of several sketch shows and comic plays, most recently "War Is Bad: Sock Puppet Euripides." Katie currently is a contributor to TimeOut Chicago, NPR's "All Things Considered" and WBEZ's "Eight Forty Eight," and she's a proud member of the country's longest-running all-female improv group, Sirens. (Come see the new Sirens show "Chicken Scratch" at the Apollo Studio, every Saturday night in March and April!) In the other half of her life, Katie teaches law and medical ethics at Northwestern University, and is editor of a humanities publication called "Atrium." January 28, 2007: Bobby Biedrzycki, Ingrid Rojas, Patrick Duvall Archives: 2006
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Billy Lombardo teaches creative writing at The Latin School of Chicago. His introduction into the writing world was through the Green Mill's Uptown Poetry Slam. His book of short fiction: 