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Elly Fishman worked as a senior editor and writer at Chicago magazine. Her features have won numerous awards including a City Regional Magazine Award for “Welcome to Refugee High,” her first report on the students and faculty at Chicago’s Roger C. Sullivan High School, on which her book Refugee High: Coming of Age in America (The New Press), winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize for a first book in the public interest, is based. A Chicago native and graduate of the University of Chicago, Fishman currently lives in Milwaukee with her husband and their dog and teaches in the Journalism Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.