Story Squad
Guild Complex
A darkly lit theater. Comfortable voices from the stage. Characters and events that breathe into the life of your imagination. There is nothing more intoxicating than a story in the dark and no better way to start the summer than in the company of these four writers.
A darkly lit theater. Comfortable voices from the stage. Characters and events that breathe into the life of your imagination. There is nothing more intoxicating than a story in the dark and no better way to start the summer than in the company of these four writers.
A native of Watseka, IL, in the Fox River Valley, Andrew Allegretti has his place in the family business, his father published a daily newspaper, through his successful writing career. The recipient of numerous Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowships and Literary Awards, he is a professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago. His fiction has appeared in TriQuarterly, Private Arts, Stand Magazine, and F Magazine.
Michael Curtin is the recipient of an Associated Writing Program Intro Award and two Columbia Scholastic Press Association Awards. His short story, “Monsters.” was a semifinalist for the Writers at Work Fellowship.
Devon Polderman has been a college football player and a florist, has thrown engine blocks in a steel yard, survived an earthquake, and won money playing poker in every place he’s lived. Excerpts of his novel, Famous Kalamazoo Bullshit Stones, have been published in F Magazine and Hair Trigger.
Karen Marousek has a perfect attendance record in her fiction writing classes at Columbia College. She has taught in the Chicago Public Schools and Harper College and was recently awarded a residency at The Ragdale Foundation.