Michele Morano

Dr. Michele Morano Michele Morano holds a PhD in English and an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Iowa. She is the author of two books, the travel memoir Grammar Lessons: Translating a Life in Spain and the memoir-in-essays Like Love (one of ten books...

Professor Barrie Jean Borich

Barrie Jean Borich Borich is a professor in the English Department and MFA/MA in Writing and Publishing Program at DePaul. She leads nonfiction writing workshops for graduate and undergraduate students at DePaul, teaches courses in LGBTQ memoir, multicultural memoir,...

Molia Dumbleton

Molia Dumbleton Molia Dumbleton’s fiction has appeared in Best Small Fictions, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, Catapult, and elsewhere. Her stories have been awarded the Seán Ó Faoláin Story Prize (Ireland) and Columbia Journal Winter Fiction Award (selected by...

Professor Ted Anton

Follow Ted Anton Ted Anton is the author of four books and co-editor of a fifth. His book, Planet of Microbes: Perils and Potential of Earth’s Essential Organisms  (University of Chicago Press, 2017) describes the power of single-celled life to rescue the Earth,...

Professor Rebecca Johns-Trissler

Professor Rebecca Johns-Trissler   On December 31, 1994, I made myself a New Year’s resolution that by the end of 1995 I would have a completed first draft of a novel. I was newly married, working at a magazine in New York, and paying my own rent, if barely, on a...