- Mike Conklin
- Mike Conklin has written professionally for audiences since high school, when his media career started on a small-town weekly. He graduated to local and regional dailies, and, following a stint in TV & Radio news broadcasting, made a long, 30-plus year stop at The Chicago Tribune. There, he was a beat reporter, daily columnist, and feature writer with work nationally syndicated. Mike’s also written for the New York Times, a variety of magazines, reviewed books, and, after leaving The Tribune, taught communications and writing full-time at Chicago’s DePaul University, where he took leaves to teach at other universities and colleges in the U.S. and China. His novels are “Goal Fever!”, “Transfer U.” and the recently published "Class Dismissed." He also was co-author of the newly published, coffee table book "Miracles by The Mountain", the story of a school he visits in Africa for physically disabled children. Mike is a graduate of Cornell College (Ia.), where he earned a BA in political science, and Loyola-Chicago, where he earned an MA in Chicago Studies. He has been a recipient of fellowships at Loyola and Arizona State University's Virginia Piper Center for Creative Writing.
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