Felicia Schneiderhan is an award winning writer, editor, and teacher. Her work explores the unique qualities and tension between our inner lives of solitude and our need for and responsibility to community.

As the daughter of a former Catholic nun caught by a fisherman, Felicia grew up writing on docks along the Mississippi River. She later moved to Chicago, where she earned a BS from Northwestern University and an MFA from Columbia College Chicago, and met her husband, Mark. Their first years of marriage are chronicled in her memoir Newlyweds Afloat, about living year-round on the 38’ trawler Mazurka in Chicago. (Spoiler alert: stuff freezes.) Her artistic process is built on collaboration among individuals and artistic mediums. She currently lives with her family and writes on the northern shore of Lake Superior. She’s also really into big water swimming these days.

Want to talk writing, collaborating, or swimming? Felicia would love to hear from you.