Megan Stielstra

Megan Stielstra is a writer, storyteller, and literary director for 2nd Story, Chicago's urban storytelling series held in wine bars where she regularly tells stories to drunk people. She's performed for the Goodman Theatre, the Chicago Poetry Center, the Chicago Cultural Center, Neo-Solo at the Neo-Futurarium, Story Week Festival of Writers, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Strawdog Theatre, The Dollar Store, Chicago Public Radio, and all sorts of bars, lectures, conferences, and even a vineyard or two. Her fiction has appeared in recent issues of Other Voices, Fresh Yarn, Pindeldyboz, Swink, Venus, Perigee, The 2nd Hand, inthefray, Punk Planet, and has been featured by the Serendipity Theatre Collective, Theatre Seven of Chicago, and Bohemian Archeology in NYC.Currently, Megan teaches in the Fiction Writing Department at Columbia College and is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Chicago.