Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
@elizabethniarchosneukirch.com
🇬🇷 Fiction writer & nonprofit PR consultant
📝 Modern life + Greek myths, folk stories and women’s oral histories
Rep: Emily Forland (Brandt & Hochman)
📷: Diane Alexander White
Had a blast at ABC7 Chicago today for an interview about ancient Greek poet Homer’s Odyssey and the National Hellenic Museum's two-day Homerathon this week! Segment linked below 🔱⛵️🧜‍♀️🏺
October 20, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Fun morning with WGN TV talking about Chicago's Taste of Greektown festival and the National Hellenic Museum 🇬🇷✨️ Proud to rep this neighborhood and my Greek American heritage. More in my interview linked below!
August 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
New book loading... 📖✨️ Beyond excited to be awarded a residency fellowship from @the-vcca.bsky.social to work on my second novel! I'm incredibly grateful for this opportunity and support--especially given the deeply personal origin of my new project. #VCCAFellows #writinglife #artistresidency
July 31, 2025 at 11:39 PM
For anyone who loves myths or American tall tales, check out @giano.bsky.social fantastical, heartfelt debut novel AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY! A great read. More in my first review for Newcity magazine, linked below. #NewBooks #booksky #BookReview #BookRecommendation
July 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Congrats to all the Chicago literary VIPs featured in this year's Newcity Lit 50, including friends @jesskeller42.bsky.social & @anandalima.bsky.social @storystudiochicago.bsky.social, Bette Cerf Hill, @mbwwelch.bsky.social, and @awmuseum.bsky.social Carey Cranston & Allison Sansone! #ChicagoIsLit 📚
June 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Fun previewing the massive Vivid Creatures sculptures at The MortonArboretum this past week with @nbcchicago.com & @wgntv.com 🌈🐌🌳 A beautiful and whimsical exhibition!
May 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Great morning at @abc7chicago.bsky.social with acclaimed author @nghivo.bsky.social & @awmuseum.bsky.social president Carey Cranston, talking about the "Making New Gods" event this Tuesday 4/22 at Harold Washington Library - which kicks off the museum's new #AmericanProphets initiative.
April 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"The Portable Feminist Reader" is essential reading. All women are not yet free, but in this sweeping intersectional collection, @roxanegay.bsky.social reminds us that feminists have the collective power to create a more inclusive & equitable future. More in my @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social review.
March 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
This Trial event is not livestreamed, but you can watch last year's Trial of Pericles on Lakeshore PBS on Wednesday, March 19 at 9pm or Thursday, March 27 at 6pm!
March 18, 2025 at 12:06 AM
"In a world that often seems hopeless, we’re all searching for stories that give us hope.”

My interview with Emmy-winning filmmaker Tod Lending about his cinematic, heartfelt WWII novel The Umbrella Maker’s Son (@harpercollins.bsky.social) is up on @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social. Link below! 📽 📖
March 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
A little introduction:

Hi I'm Elizabeth! My #WIP is a modern Greek American immigrant story... but with Greek myths, folk stories & a touch of magic thrown in ✨🏺🫒🏛

What are you writing? I follow back all writers!

#WritingCommunity
#writesky #booksky
March 6, 2025 at 11:47 PM
THE BRAILLE ENCYCLOPEDIA: BRIEF ESSAYS ON ALTERED SIGHT by Naomi Cohn, the latest hybrid title from @rosemetalpress.bsky.social, is an unforgettable series of poetic "definitions" unlike anything you've ever read. More in my highly recommended review!
@thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social
#BookRecommendation
March 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Great time on @cbsnews.com Chicago this morning with Greektown restaurants to preview the annual Greektown Restaurant Week! Kicks off this Saturday with gyros, lamb, saganaki & more. OPA 🇬🇷🥂 #GreektownChicago
February 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"We need storytellers who aren’t afraid to be messy, raw, urgent, and immediate."

Worth a read: this incredible essay from @chicagoreader.com editor @kerryreid.bsky.social on the essential work of arts journalists & artists in @americantheatre.bsky.social. Link below. Support your local media!
February 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
#ChicagoIsLit in March: literary icon & NYT bestseller @roxanegay.bsky.social joins @wbez.org March 26 for a chat about new book "The Portable Feminist Reader," which she edited. So you know it's good!

Stay tuned for my review of this @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social book during #WomensHistoryMonth
February 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Love this story about fellow #WashU alumna @elissabassist.bsky.social and highly recommend her debut memoir HYSTERICAL! Link to interview below. #BookRecommendation #Booksky
February 9, 2025 at 1:09 AM
For all you book lovers & writers: my latest #ChicagoIsLit 📚 column for @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social highlights a monthlong literary Pub Crawl from @storystudiochicago.bsky.social, a WWII novel debut at Illinois Holocaust Museum, events w/authors across the city & more! Link below. #FreedomtoRead
January 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Chicago writers: tomorrow, Jan. 21 is the FREE event/inspiration sesh Reading Your Resistance & Writing Your Resistance, hosted by @storystudiochicago.bsky.social and moderated by @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social. With @meganstielstra.bsky.social @michaelzapata.bsky.social & more! Registration link below.
January 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Proud to write for Third Coast Review and promote Chicago's literary events & books!

You can support my work and many other arts writers with a small donation to our year-end fundraiser: third-coast-review.fundjournalism.org/support

#ChicagoIsLit #BookSky #artscriticism
@thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social
December 27, 2024 at 5:21 PM
LOVE this story from Chris Borrelli in @chicagotribune.com about Chicagoans of the Year in Books, the fabulous Javier and Kristin at
Exile in Bookville at the Fine Arts Building! 📚✨

Article linked below.
December 17, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Feeling inspired after a holiday gathering & writing workshop with my Novel in a Year cohort from @storystudiochicago.bsky.social. We've met nearly every month since 2020. So grateful for these brilliant and supportive peers! ❤️📚 #WritingCommunity
December 16, 2024 at 2:59 PM
@thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social is holding our year-end fundraiser to help pay writers like me for our work at this hyper-local arts & culture website. If you’ve enjoyed reading my Chicago lit articles there, I hope you’ll consider making a small contribution.

Link in comment below ⬇️
December 12, 2024 at 1:52 PM
#ChicagoisLit in December with literary events from WBEZ, @awmuseum.bsky.social, Poetry Brothel Chicago & 57th Street Books, plus an illuminating new Poetry Foundation exhibit. More in my @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social column linked below!
December 5, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Incredible time reading from my novel with fellow @storystudiochicago.bsky.social alumni at The Book Cellar! Writing is so often solitary work & it was amazing to remember we have a whole community cheering us on 💜 And to be inspired by other writers' work!

#WritingCommunity #booksky #writerslife
November 25, 2024 at 9:09 PM
Hi #WritingCommunity! A little intro: I'm a writer of #literaryfiction and #fiction exploring how Greek myths & storytelling resonate in our current time 🫒⛵️🧜‍♀️🏺

Current WIP is about a Greek American immigrant with a strange connection to a Greek revolutionary heroine.

#booksky #writers #authors
November 20, 2024 at 4:16 PM