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Chicago Tribune reporter since 2009. Author: "Life-Altering: Abortion Stories from the Midwest." Formerly St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Tacoma News Tribune, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Writer, speaker, consultant. Chicago Tribune columnist, blogging at Inside Higher Ed. Coming soon, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. Previously: Why They Can't Write and The Writer's Practice. biblioracle.substack.com
