STORY CLUB
BIOS Her stories have changed national and state laws and won numerous awards, including Harvard University’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Investigative Reporters & Editors Award for Investigative Reporting and the Edgar A. Poe Award by the White House Correspondents' Association. Ms. Reed is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism where she received her dual bachelor’s degrees in newswriting and photojournalism. She earned her master’s degree in journalism from the Ohio State University and is currently working on a master’s of fine arts degree from Northwestern University in Chicago. Ms. Reed has taught writing workshops and has been a visiting professor. When she is not working, Ms. Reed and her husband, Greg Stricharchuk, a business editor for the Chicago Tribune, split their time between their home on Chicago’s South Side and a farmhouse in Laporte, Indiana, where she writes in a converted barn. She is currently writing a novel set in Chicago during the recent presidential election.
Dana Norris
Dana is the founder and host of Story Club. She has a Bachelors in Creative Writing and Religion and from Wittenberg University and a Master in Religious Studies from The University of Chicago. Dana also has a Certificate in Creative Non-Fiction from the University of Chicago.
She recently won the Writers Studio Student Prize from the University of Chicago Graham School, was a finalist for the Guild Complex Non-Fiction Prize and was chosen to represent Northwestern University for Nonfiction in the AWP Intro Journals Project. She is a graduate of the Second City Conservatory Improv program and is currently pursuing her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Northwestern University. She was recently published by Praxis Magazine and was first runner-up at the February Chicago Moth StorySLAM.
Her cross bow shoots marshmallows.
March 11th show
Gisella Faggi
Gisella Faggi has identity issues that stem from growing up as a first generation American. She writes about these issues. Recently, her short script, The Pope's Visit, won first place in the prestigious Written Image Awards. Her work has also screened at the Cannes Film Festival, and she was a participant in the State Department-sponsored Fusion Arts Exchange Program in 2007. Currently, she is developing two feature-length screenplays: one a Bollywood-inspired musical,
the other a horror film.
James Berg
James Berg has studied at the University of Iowa, DePaul University, Sorbonne University in Paris and the University of Chicago. When he's on his bike and he sees you, he will wave and say hello.
April 1st show
Fred Reuland
Fred Reuland has a B.A. in Theatre and has recently found his true calling as a writer of quirky short stories set in the 1960's. Behind his lofty literary goals is a conviction to make readers laugh out loud
whenever possible.
Cheryl Reed
Cheryl L. Reed is currently senior editor for publications at the University of Chicago Medical Center where she is the managing editor for several publications, including the glossy magazine Medicine on the Midway. She is a former editorial page editor, books editor and investigative reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times and previously a staff writer at several others newspapers. Her freelance articles have appeared in U.S. News & World Report, Salon, Mother Jones, Poets & Writers and other publications.
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