Kathie Bergquist
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Kathie Bergquist is is a Lambda Emerging Writer fellow and the editor of Windy City Queer: LGBTQ Dispatches from the Third Coast, co-author (with Robert McDonald) of The Field Guide to Gay and Lesbian Chicago, and author of photo-filled biographies of pop stars for teenagers. For nine years, she was the City Editor of the Not For Tourist’s Guide to Chicago. Her writing has appeared in the Chicago Reader, The Advocate, Curve mag, among other magazines, newspapers, journals and anthologies, and she has performed her work in Chicago, Minneapolis, New York City, and Prague, Czech Republic. She teaches writing at Columbia College Chicago and SAIC and worked at Women & Children First from 1989-1995 and 2005-2012.r
‘N Sync: The Illustrated Story | A Field Guide to Gay and Lesbian Chicago | Backstreet Boys: Larger than Life | NFT, Not For Tourists guide to Chicago, 2009. | Ricky Martin, The Unofficial Book | Windy City Queer: LGBTQ Dispatches from the Third Coast