

He is a graduate of Kent State University and has done graduate work at Northeastern and Columbia College, Chicago. Stephen English is a short story author and humorist. She also runs ArtShould, a student organization that provides free after-school art classes at local schools, and co-directs StoryArts Summer Camp, a free summer program that encourages students to share stories through different artistic mediums.

Read more at .Īmelia Dmowska is a staff writer for the South Side Weekly.

Paul Dailing is a freelance journalist and creator of 1,001 Chicago Afternoons,which was a winner of a Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism. She is a senior at Columbia College, majoring in poetry. She lives for language, sound, and, most importantly, how both influence life and the conscious world.

She arose from sea foam of the Gulf Coast and never looked back. She also writes and edits for the South Side Weekly.Īerin Cooper wasn’t born. She has won awards for her poetry from Michigan State University and Albion College, and has been published in The Albion Review, The Mochila Review, Sliced Bread, and others. Mari Cohen wrote her first poem, about jack-o’-lanterns, at the age of five and has been trying to live up to that debut ever since. He has just completed a novel, And When Nobody Cared, from which “What Becomes of the Trained” was excerpted. Campbell is a high school English and drama teacher in Chicago whose works have appeared in The Garland Court Review, The Black Magnolias Literary Journal, and the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography All-Star Anthology. Jones Commercial, My First Job, and a Whole New World Outside of Englewood | Elaine Hegwood Bowenĭane A. #398: The Steelworker’s Mermaid | Paul Dailing Ode to the Brothas & Sistas | Claude Robert Hill IV Jazz Hops a Railcar to Chicago | Dan SullivanĭuSable Remembers His Wife, Kittihawa | Dan Sullivan Maxwell Street, A Chicago Portrait | David Nekimken Little Brother’s New Tattoo| Dakota Loesch The Way I See It (My South Side) | Khaleelah D.
