Anne Ford
Anne makes offbeat print and audio stories about everyday people. She has contributed to NPR, StoryCorps, Love + Radio, Snap Judgment Presents: Spooked, InStyle, New York Magazine, Chicago Magazine, and many other outlets. Her writing has won awards from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies and the North American Travel Journalists Association, and her Love + Radio episode “The Boys Will Work It Out” was named one of 10 “must-listen podcast episodes of the decade” by Salon.
She teaches podcasting at Northwestern University. If you have a ghost story, she would like to hear it.
Recent Work
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Aaron Yang: Voracious Reader Or Giant Pain To Librarians?
There are more than 9,000 public libraries in the U.S., and Aaron Yang has been trying to win summer reading prizes from as many as he can. Not all librarians are happy about it.
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Hellevator
Dan is a cop on the night shift. When he's asked to check something out at the deserted senior home, he discovers one resident never left.
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Can We All Come Out Now?
Rejoining the world after COVID-19 won't be easy. Heartfelt advice from people who have spent time away from society as they knew it, and then returned, changed.
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“Mochi’s Gonna Freeze to Death”
A stolen doggy daycare van. Six pooches missing in subzero temperatures. One hysterical city. An oral history of the accidental dognapping that captivated Chicago and beyond.
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The Story of the Box
Just a box in the belly of a tree.
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Gettysburg Ghost
Trina and her husband took a very spooky souvenir home from their honeymoon.