AmyAmy Guth is social media manager for Chicago Tribune Media Group, an author and WGN Radio host.

She is author of the novel "Three Fallen Women" (2006) and is included in the anthologies "What Happened to us These Last Couple of Years?" and "6S, Vol. 2." Her short fiction, "Feet In Socks" was was named among StorySouth's notable stories and was a Million Writers Award nominee.

Guth has spoken at Columbia College Chicago, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Decatur Book Festival, the (Downtown) Omaha Lit Fest and The Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival and, in 2007, founded Pilcrow Lit Fest, a local small press literary festival. Guth is a co-host of the Chicago reading series Reading Under The Influence, now in its fifth year.

Previously, Guth served as digital news editor for the Tribune's books section and blog, Printers Row. She was co-host of ChicagoNow Radio, and later WGN Weekend, on WGN, wrote the local literary blog, Chicago Subtext for the Tribune's Chicago Now blog network, where she also served as founding Life and Style community manager. Guth also served as managing editor for literary magazine The Complete Meal, co-wrote several sketch productions at Second City's training center and other improv venues, including "Anton Chekhov's Bastard Child" which was performed in Chicago from 2002-4. Guth also served as assistant fiction editor at 42 Opus, and founded and curated Chicago's Fixx Reading Series.

Find her on Twitter as @amyguth.

 

 
     
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