Elisa Shoenberger

Elisa Shoenberger is a freelance writer and journalist in Chicago. She writes about books, food, art, and science. She also has written for the Huffington Post, Slate, WIRED Magazine, Boston Globe and others. She writes regularly for Book Riot, Murder & Mayhem and Cheese Professor. She is also co-founder and co-editor of the Antelope: A Journal of Oral History and Mayhem which just published issue 2: Code.

She has a B.A. in Latin American History from the University of Chicago, M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an M.B.A. in Marketing and Operations Management from Loyola University Chicago. She’s obsessed with dogsledding, murder mysteries and cheese. She plays alto saxophone in her spare time.