Megan Stielstra is a writer, storyteller and Director of Story Development 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 Chicago Poetry Center's No Love For Love show featuring Ira Glass, Neo-Solo at the Neo-Futurarium, Undershorts Film Festival, The Dollar Store, WBEZ's Writer's Block Party and 2nd Story. Her writing has appeared in recent or forthcoming issues of Other Voices, Fresh Yarn, Pindeldyboz, Swink and Punk Planet. She teaches fiction writing at Columbia College and the University of Chicago, and has presented papers for Associated Writing Programs, The National Association of Writing in Education in London and the Center for Art in Public Life in San Fransisco. She spends frequent summers in Prague, teaching Kafka and working on a novel, and you can visit her at www.meganstielstra.com where she blogs about things she doesn't understand which is actually most everything.