writer in residence

Dr. Sjostrom is a writer and teacher educator based in Oak Park, IL. Her poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in RHINO, Southern Poetry Review, English Journal, and elsewhere, and she regularly publishes and presents on writing education. Her co-edited collection, Unsettling Education, won a 2021 Outstanding Book Award from the Society of Professors of Education. Kate holds a BA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as an MEd and PhD in English Education from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she now teaches writing and writing pedagogy. She is currently at work on her first novel which she will continue within the WIR writing space.

Scott Nations is the President of Nations Indexes, Inc., and a best-selling author. Scott has also spent more than a decade as a contributor to CNBC and regularly appears on-air to discuss markets, current economic events, and the outlook for a variety of financial vehicles. In the fiction space, Scott is the author of The Imperative, a novel due to be published in early 2024. During his time as WIR, he will be working on his next nonfiction project which is a history of the American stock market.

Scott is a graduate of the University of Kansas. He and his wife Wendi have lived in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago for twenty-nine years.

The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park is proud to announce its 2021-2022 Writer in Residence, Rebecca Morgan Frank.

Ms. Frank is the author of four poetry collections: Oh You Robot Saints!, Sometimes We’re All Living in a Foreign Country; and The Spokes of Venus, all from Carnegie Mellon University Press, and Little Murders Everywhere (Salmon Poetry), finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She holds a BA from Vassar College, an MFA from Emerson College, and a doctorate from the University of Cincinnati. She is a native of Charlottesville, Virginia and lives in Chicago, where she teaches in the MFA Program in Prose & Poetry at Northwestern University’s School of Professional Studies.

The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park is proud to announce its 2019-2021 Writer in Residence, Laura Young.

Ms. Young, an English teacher since 2006 at Oak Park-River Forest High School, is a writer of both fiction (including novel-length and flash) and memoir. In addition to her teaching duties, Laura runs a week-long college essay writing intensive each summer at the Oak Park Public Library. She has a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Iowa and a Masters of Arts in Education from California State University.

The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park is proud to announce its 2017-2019 Writer in Residence, Cameron Gearen.

Cameron publishes poetry, fiction and non-fiction. Her essays have recently appeared in The Washington Post, Full Grown People, Hippocampus and elsewhere. Shearsman Press released her book of poems, SOME PERFECT YEAR, in 2016. Currently, Cameron is working on a memoir.

The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park is proud to announce its 2014-2015 Writer in Residence, Annette Gendler.

Annette is the author of Jumping Over Shadows, the true story of a German-Jewish love that overcame the burden of the Holocaust, published in 2017 by She Writes Press. The memoir was a finalist for the Chicago Writers Association’s 2017 Book of the Year Award.

The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park is proud to announce its 2013-2014 Writer in Residence, Susan Hahn.

An award-winning poet, playwright and novelist, Hahn has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Illinois Arts Council, and is a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize.

Prior to the reintroduction of our official Writer in Residence program, William Hazelgrove used the unfinished attic space as his writing space from 1998 to 2008.

William Hazelgrove is the National Bestselling author of ten novels and six nonfiction titles.