Sarah Michael Hollenbeck

Recent Publications & Awards


Readings

  • You're Being Ridiculous at Steppenwolf, February 2018
  • Funny Ha Ha, September 2017
  • Story Club South Side, February 2017
  • You're Being Ridiculous, March 2016
  • Tuesday Funk, November 2015
  • Chicago 20 x 2, May 2015
  • Truth or Lie, April 2015
  • That's All She Wrote, February 2015
  • Wit Rabbit, January 2015
  • You're Being Ridiculous, November 2014
  • Essay Fiesta, July 2014
  • Here, Chicago, June 2014
  • Loose Chicks, March 2014
  • Story Sessions, City Winery, February 2014
  • Fillet of Solo, Lifeline Theatre, January 2014
  • Story Club North Side, November 2013, Winner of the Audience Vote  
  • That's All She Wrote, October 2013
  • Story Club South Side, September 2013
  • Guts & Glory: Live Lit for the Lionhearted, Powell's Books, July 2013
  • Prelude to a staged reading of Todd Bauer's play The Birdfeeder Doesn't Know, Raven Theatre, May 2013
  • Uncommon Bodies -  a celebration of women poets and prose writers with disabilities, Woman Made Gallery, May 2013
  • Graduate Reading, The Book Cellar,  December 2012

Degrees

  • Northwestern University, Creative Nonfiction Writing, MFA
  • Hampshire College, Literary Journalism, BA
  • Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, Documentary Writing, Field Study

Experience

  • Instructor, StoryStudio Chicago
  • Writing Tutor, The Writing Place, Northwestern University
  • Publicity & Editorial Assistant, Trafalgar Square Publishing & Chicago Review Press
  • Nonfiction Editor, TriQuarterly 
  • Intern, Neighborhood Writing Alliance
  • Editorial Assistant, Chicago Home + Garden