Elisa Shoenberger

Elisa Shoenberger (she/her) is a writer in Chicago. She has been published in the Slate, Boston Globe, Huffington Post, and many others. She also has written about books for Murder & Mayhem, Earth Island Journal, Broad Street Review, Chicago Reader, and others. She is also the co-founder and co-editor of The Antelope, a journal of oral history and mayhem. She tweets at @vogontroubadour and her work can be found here.

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What Murder Mysteries Get Wrong About The Food Industry

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9 Recently Published Graphic Novels about Politics and Identity

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Everything But Christmas: Holiday Mystery Books that Are Not about Christmas

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