Gina Frangello is the author of the novel My Sister's Continent (Chiasmus 2006). She was the longtime editor of the literary magazine Other Voices, and in 2005 co-founded its fiction book imprint Other Voices Books, where she is now executive editor of the Chicago office. Her short fiction has appeared widely in journals, magazines and anthologies, including StoryQuarterly, Swink, Prairie Schooner, Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader and Clackamas Literary Review. Gina has been a freelance journalist and book reviewer for the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Reader, blogs regularly at The Nervous Breakdown, and in 2004 guest-edited the anthology Falling Backwards: Stories of Fathers and Daughters. She teaches Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago and Northwestern University's School of Continuing Studies. Her Web site is www.ginafrangello.com.

Blog Entries by Gina Frangello

Chicago's Women & Children Inspires Three Decades of Writers and Readers

4 Comments | Posted September 29, 2009 | 12:25 PM (EST)


For a bookstore with some of the most diverse programming in the country, many readings at Chicago's Women & Children First begin the same way. If you've ever been there, you'll recognize the scenario. The misty eyes that suddenly overcome the author as she takes the floor. The statement of...

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And Then the Panel Came to Blows: Notes on a Publishing Party

3 Comments | Posted May 8, 2009 | 07:40 PM (EST)


Recently, I attended a cocktail party and panel discussion at Maxim's downtown. The party was for people involved in Chicago publishing, and came on the heels -- two days earlier -- of the forming of The Chicago Literary Alliance in Uptown, a networking group for writers and publishers in...

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