Authors Vol. 3 No. 1

  • Emily Alpert

    When Emily Alpert was three, she wanted to be a writer. Then she wanted to be a princess, a veterinarian, the first female President, a zoologist, an actress, a baseball player, an operetta singer, a painter, a genetics researcher, a human rights activist, a National Geographic photojournalist, and a rabbi. Now she wants to be a writer again. She is a three-time Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media Awards nominee, a graduate of the University of Chicago, and a pretty decent vegan chef. Currently, she covers public safety issues for The Gilroy Dispatch, a daily newspaper in Gilroy, California, the self-declared Garlic Capital of the World. Also, in ninth grade she was almost homecoming queen, but she is way too cool to care about that.

  • Kalisha Buckhanon

    Kalisha Buckhanon’s first novel, Upstate, received the American Library Association’s ALEX Award. She has also received awards and fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council, Andrew Mellon Fund and the Gwendolyn Brooks Black Writers Conference. Her second novel, Conception (forthcoming), will be published in 2007. Her articles, essay and stories have appeared in such publications as the Michigan Quarterly Review, London Independent and Black Issues Book Review. She received a BA in English Literature from the University of Chicago and an MFA in Creative Writing from New School University. She regularly speaks at highschools and community organizations. She will be attending the University of Chicago’s PhD program in English in the Fall.

  • Terry Huang

    Terry Huang is from California and did undergrad on the East Coast. Curious about what the middle of the States looked like, she decided to come to the University of Chicago for school. She is a first-year at the law school and spends most of her time trying to climb out of piles of cases.

  • Lila Shapiro

    Lila Pearl Shapiro is a recent graduate from The University of Chicago. She lives in New York City where she can typically be spotted in Riverside Park, walking her two dogs.

  • Jenna Telesca

    Jenna Telesca is a recent English grad from the College. She recently stopped hiding under her desk long enough to come to terms with entering the Real World.

    Jenna works as an editor in the University News Office. She enjoys preaching from the gospel of the em dash.

  • Jonathan Ullyot

    Jonathan Ullyot is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature. His feature film script Crime Fiction, produced here in Chicago, completed post-production last May and is currently one of the narrative features in 2007 Slamdance festival in Park City, Utah. He is currently at work on a novel, George (forthcoming).

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