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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
@elizabethniarchosneukirch.com
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🇬🇷 Fiction writer & nonprofit PR consultant
📝 Modern life + Greek myths, folk stories and women’s oral histories
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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 🔱⛵️🧜‍♀️🏺
Three people sit in white leather armchairs at the ABC 7 Chicago studio with the station logo on the wall behind them. Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch is wearing a dark purple lace dress with short sleeves, next to her is Krishni Burns in a black suit. Both women wear their hair down.
October 20, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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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!
Two women dance the Greek kalamatianos in the street with the Taste of Greektown fest tents set up around them. One is in a blue jean dress and the other is wearing a blue and white patterned dress with a white cardigan.
August 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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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
Overhead image of the barn studios and silos at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Text says "Writer Going to VCCA!"
July 31, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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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
The cover of American Mythology by Giano Cromley. A large unidentifiable shadow looks out at a pink and purple sunset over the mountains.
July 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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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 📚
Images of Newcity Lit 50 honorees Bette Cerf Hill, Bonnie Sanchez-Carlson, Jessica Keller and Ananda Lima Black magazine page with Lit 50 in stylized white typeface, the cover of the Newcity special section Images of Newcity Lit 50 honorees Andrea Change, Faylita Hicks, Allison Sansone and Carey Cranston
June 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Fun previewing the massive Vivid Creatures sculptures at The MortonArboretum this past week with @nbcchicago.com & @wgntv.com 🌈🐌🌳 A beautiful and whimsical exhibition!
A woman in a hunter green coat and an NBC Chicago reporter in a bright blue coat standing in front of a massive rainbow-colored snail sculpture at The Morton Arboretum. A WGN TV crew interviews artists Heather and Fez BeGaetz next to a vivid multi-colored 25-foot-tall sculpture of a buck at The Morton Arboretum.
May 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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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.
Award-winning author Nghi Vo and American Writers Museum President Carey Cranston sit in white chairs with the ABC 7 Chicago logo behind them, with a table of Nghi's books on display in front of them. Poster for the Making New Gods event, with author headshots for Nghi Vo, N. K. Jemisin, Nnedi Okorafor and Matthew Kirby.
April 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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"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.
Cover of the Portable Feminist Reader edited by Roxane Gay. The image is a graphic of women of different ethnicities in a Cubism style, with a green, white and pink background.
March 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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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!
Poster for the Trial of Pericles on Lakeshore PBS, with a bust of an ancient Greek soldier
March 18, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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"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! 📽 📖
Cover of three novel The Umbrella Maker’s Son by Tod Lending, with the shadow of two men walking arm in arm against a foggy orange cityscape. The men are wearing the star of David on their arms.
March 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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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
A Greek American white woman with dark hair pulled back. She is wearing a floral patterned tee shirt in fuschia, light pink and blue. She is standing in front of a white stone archway on a Greek island.
March 6, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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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!
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#BookRecommendation
Cover of The Braille Encyclopedia by Naomi Cohn, with raised braille letters beneath each character in the title.
March 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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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
Two Greek American women stand behind a table filled with Greek food including gyros, baklava, pita, hummus, whipped goat cheese and a Mediterranean salad. One woman is wearing a blue dress with her hair down, and the other is wearing a floral dress with her hair pinned up. The CBS logo is on a curtain behind them. The CBS Chicago studio with a table filled with food that has a sign reading Greektown Chicago. Two women sit behind the table, one with a blue dress and one in a purple dress. A man holding a camera stands nearby. The CBS logo is on the wall behind them with studio lights overhead.
February 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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"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!
A picture of paper going through a printing press, above an essay headline that reads: singing from the last ditch. Endangered but essential, the work of arts journalists offers a repository and a reflection of the voices we need more than ever in dark times.
February 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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#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
Text reading "An evening with Roxane Gay and Sasha-Ann Simons" next to headshots of both Black women. Gay is wearing a gray sweater with her head resting in her hand. Simons is wearing a light colored top with a small pattern and large hoop earrings.
February 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Love this story about fellow #WashU alumna @elissabassist.bsky.social and highly recommend her debut memoir HYSTERICAL! Link to interview below. #BookRecommendation #Booksky
Cartoon illustration of a woman screaming on the cover of the memoir Hysterical by Elissa Bassist
February 9, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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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
Two men in shadow walk under an umbrella on the orange cover of novel The Umbrella Maker's Son Author Gillian Flynn appears on a poster for StoryStudio's Pub Crawl, February 2025 Event posterfor A Season of Light at Call & Response Books, including author Julie Iromuanya
January 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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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.
Flyer for a free panel hosted by StoryStudio Chicago with text that says: Reading Your Resistance and Writing Your Resistance, Tuesday January 21 at 7pm
January 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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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
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A picture of writer Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch in a sleeveless navy dress with green foliage in the background. Text is overlaid saying, I've always followed arts criticism in Chicago and I admire the journalists giving our incredible artists and arts organizations a much-needed boost.
December 27, 2024 at 5:21 PM
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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.
Co-owners Kristin and Javier Ramirez stand in their bookstore Exile in Bookville, with a wall of books bathed in red light behind them.
December 17, 2024 at 8:35 PM
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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
A group of smiling friends standing indoors in front of a Christmas tree.
December 16, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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@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 ⬇️
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December 12, 2024 at 1:52 PM
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#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!
A person wearing a black dress stands on stage with an audience in the background holding phones up with many twinkling lights. A series of vintage bronze frames on a wall, which show pictures of poets reading and burlesque and circus acts. An exhibition room at the Poetry Foundation bathed in red, purple and green light, with a series of floor-to-ceiling windows along the left side.
December 5, 2024 at 3:44 PM
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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
StoryStudio writers at The Book Cellar Author Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch reading from her novel in front of shelves of books Author Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch with friends at her reading
November 25, 2024 at 9:09 PM
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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
Writer Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch in front of the Parthenon in Athens.
November 20, 2024 at 4:16 PM