Biography
Joe Meno is a writer who lives in Chicago. He is a professor in the English and Creative Writing department. A winner of the Nelson Algren Literary Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Great Lakes Book Award, and a finalist for the Story Prize, he is the author of seven novels: Marvel and a Wonder, Office Girl, The Great Perhaps, The Boy Detective Fails, Hairstyles of the Damned, How the Hula Girl Sings, and Tender as Hellfire. His short story collections are Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir and Demons in the Spring. His short fiction has been published in a number of venues including McSweeney's, One Story, Swink, LIT, TriQuarterly, Other Voices, Gulf Coast, and broadcast on NPR's Selected Shorts. He was a contributing editor to Punk Planet, the seminal underground arts and politics magazine. His non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times, Chicago Magazine, the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Reader. His forthcoming nonfiction book, Between Everything and Nothing, will be published in Spring 2020.
Degrees
B.A., Fiction Writing Columbia College Chicago 1997
M.F.A., Combined Writing Degree Columbia College Chicago 2000