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Megan Stielstra

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Essays, Memoir, Short Stories

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Megan Stielstra is the author of the essay collection Once I Was Cool. Her work is included in The Best American Essays 2013, Poets & Writers, The Rumpus, PANK, Other Voices, f Magazine, Make Magazine, Joyland, Pindeldyboz, Swink, and elsewhere, and her story collection, Everyone Remain Calm, was a Chicago Tribune Favorite of 2011. She’s the Literary Director of the critically-acclaimed 2nd Story storytelling series and has told stories for all sorts of theaters, festivals, and bars including the Goodman, Steppenwolf, Museum of Contemporary Art, Neo-Futurarium, Chicago Public Radio, and regularly for The Paper Machete live news magazine at The Green Mill. Currently, she teaches writing and performance at Columbia College Chicago and serves ...more

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Average rating: 4.21 · 2,670 ratings · 431 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Wrong Way to Save Your Life: Essays – Intellectually Fierce and Achingly Human Stories on Art, Courage, and Justice 4.22 avg rating — 1,571 ratings — published 2017 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger by Lilly Dancyger (Goodreads Author), Leslie Jamison (Goodreads Author), Monet P. Thomas (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating — 1,397 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Once I Was Cool: Personal Essays 4.20 avg rating — 805 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everyone Remain Calm 4.15 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Briefly Knocked Unconscious by a Low-Flying Duck: Stories from 2nd Story by Andrew Reilly (Editor), Megan Stielstra (Editor) 4.08 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nothing Compares to You: What Sinead O'Connor Means to Us by Sonya Huber (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Martha Bayne (Editor), Sharbari Zohra Ahmed 4.05 avg rating — 55 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soul Mate 101 and Other Essays on Love and Sex by Jennifer Niesslein (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sara Bir, Jean Kim 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gamut Magazine: Issue Six by Richard Thomas (Goodreads Author), Mercedes M. Yardley (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dino Parenti (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Retro Vol. 1 No. 2: Selections from Joyland Magazine by Joyland Magazine (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Emily Schultz (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Megan Stielstra (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“At some point, our education no longer belongs to our teachers. It belongs to us.”
― Megan Stielstra, The Wrong Way to Save Your Life: Essays

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“There’s a great essay about this by Aubrey Hirsch. She says judging another mother is like critiquing a woman being eaten by wolves. “That’s not what I want to do,” Hirch writes. “I want to say ‘Hey, Mama! You looked like a badass bitch taking on those wolves!’ and ‘Aren’t those wolves crazy?!’ and ‘Tell me how you’re surviving these wolf attacks.”
― Megan Stielstra, The Wrong Way to Save Your Life: Essays

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“It doesn’t matter if the work is personal or political. It doesn’t matter if it’s a story or an essay. Some people will come after us no matter what we say. We might as well say things that matter.”
― Megan Stielstra, The Wrong Way to Save Your Life: Essays – Intellectually Fierce and Achingly Human Stories on Art, Courage, and Justice

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