Heather Kenny

Heather Kenny

Heather Kenny is a Chicago-based freelance writer. She has contributed to Shondaland, HuffPost Personal, World Nomads, The Midst, Chicago Public Radio, and the Chicago Reader. When she’s not crossing travel destinations off her bucket list, she can be found riding a...
Jen Companik

Jen Companik

Jen Companik is an author, translator, and photographer based in the exurbs of Chicago. She is a fiction editor at TriQuarterly and holds an M.A. from Northwestern University. Some of her professional accomplishments include: first prize, The Ledge’s 2014 Fiction...
Carmenita Peoples

Carmenita Peoples

Carmenita Peoples is an artistic performer, writer, and credentialed Montessori educator. She currently serves as part-time staff at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and educational consultant with CPS (Chicago Public Schools). Her company, Innovative Art...
Michelle Young

Michelle Young

Michelle Young grew up in central Illinois and has lived in Chicago over 30 years. By day she manages a global sales team in the hospitality industry, by night she writes both stories and comedy. She embraces magic and synchronicity but doesn’t claim to be a...
Victoria Reeves

Victoria Reeves

Victoria Reeves is a Writer, Storyteller, Writing Coach and World Traveller. She has backpacked in 15 countries and now traverses the USA in her converted cargo van named FLOW. Her solo show Brassy + Intrepid: Fighting to Be Me was selected for Lifeline Theater’s...