Megan Stielstra is the author of Everyone Remain Calm, a Chicago Tribune Favorite of 2011, and the Literary Director of Chicago’s 2nd Story storytelling series. She has told stories for the Goodman, Steppenwolf, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Chicago Poetry Center, Story Week Festival of Writers, Wordstock Literary Festival, the Neo-Futurarium, Victory Gardens, and Chicago Public Radio, among others, and performs regularly for 2nd Story and the Paper Machete. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Other Voices, the Nervous Breakdown, Fresh Yarn, Pindeldyboz, Swink, Shareable, Monkeybicycle, Hypertext, Cellstories, Perigee, Annalemma, and Punk Planet, among others, and have been performed by Theatre Seven of Chicago and Bohemian Archeology in New York City. She teaches creative writing and writing and performance at Columbia College Chicago and the University of Chicago.
