Gale Walden

Gale Renee Walden is the author of a poetry book Same Blue Chevy, published by Tia Chucha Press. She writes and teaches in three genres. Her fiction has appeared in The Antioch Review, Mid-American Review, Prairie Schooner, Fiction, and other magazines. Her short story, “Men I Don’t Talk to Anymore,” won the 2003 Boston Review Fiction Prize.

She has written political commentary for the Huffingtonpost and nonfiction essays for The Chronicle of Higher Education, Salon.com, Crab Orchard Review, and Another Chicago Magazine, as well as book reviews for the Harvard Review, Review of Contemporary Fiction, The Chicago Sun-Times and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Gale is a member of the National Book Critic Circle.

She is currently writing about ghost towns and odd museums in the United States.