Elizabeth McNeill
Writer & Editor
Elizabeth McNeill is a recovering academic who now happily writes and edits in the Midwest. She is a Daily Editor at the Chicago Review of Books, where she runs the feature series "Checking out Historical Chicago." Her writing can also be found in Electric Literature, Oh Reader, Full Stop, Cleveland Review of Books, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Hopscotch Translation, and Mid-Level Management Literary Magazine. When not turning her dissertation into science-infused historical fiction, she enjoys running in nature, watching women's soccer, and spoiling her cat.
Please feel free to reach out via email with writing, editing, and review opportunities.
Looking for clips?
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Feature braiding historical research and interviews: "Checking out Historical Chicago: Kathleen Rooney's From Dust to Stardust"
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Q&A, editing, hook, short summary: "A Pharmaceutical Voice: An Interview with Anne K. Yoder on The Enhancers"
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Long summary, critical thinking, cultural conversations: "The Red Zone: A Love Story - Chloe Caldwell"
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Storytelling, voice, humor: "We Are Emergencies"
Latest Review
"Dueling Words in Jennifer Croft's The Extinction of Irena Rey"
Chicago Review of Books
"'Books are books. They’re written by authors. Not readers, not critics, not us.' It's easy to imagine Croft laughing while writing that line from the perspective of an author who is writing from the perspective of a translator who is translated by another translator. Of course, books are written by translators!"
Latest Feature
"Checking out Historical Chicago: Cynthia Pelayo's Forgotten Sisters"
Chicago Review of Books
"Although Pelayo rejects the label 'historical fiction' for what she does, she acknowledges that historical research is an essential part of her process. Her true crime poetry, for instance, reflects such a keen understanding of each case’s details that the collection seems to emit ghostly human shapes, as if each murdered girl and woman from Pelayo’s poems were hovering beside the reader."