Amy Guth

Amy Guth is the founder of Pilcrow Lit Fest and author of Three Fallen Women (So New Media Publishing, 2006), both of which she is often touring around to promote, as well as a forthcoming second novel and work of non-fiction. Previously, she has written for The Believer, Monkeybicycle, Ninth Letter, Four Magazine, Bookslut, The Complete Meal and Outcry, among others. Currently, in addition to her blog, Bigmouth Indeed Strikes Again, she writes for The Nervous Breakdown, Hungry City and others, writing a thing here and there for this or that publication, and generally having a swell time. Also, she hosts the monthly Fixx Reading Series, which is generally held on the fourth Thursday of each month in Chicago. Generally. Once upon a time, she collaborated on a few sketch comedy productions at The Second City's training center. Around the same time, she was also fumbling around a few improv comedy stages as well, and fondly recalls the nights she played the "Kill Whitey" crayon and the night she improvised doing improv-coke off of an improv-hooker. She's lived all over the country, her most recently move being from NYC to Chicago in 2001, where she's staying put for now.