About Betsy

Betsy Mikel is a writer who lives and works in Chicago. Originally trained as a magazine journalist, she worked as a copywriter and ran her own content strategy consultancy before landing in tech as a user experience writer. Her writing has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, The Sun Magazine, and on Medium, where her essay The Haunting of the Mikel Manse won an honorable mention in the Medium Writers Challenge. She is an alum of Disquiet Literary Festival, the Kenyon Review Workshop, and StoryStudio’s Memoir in a Year program. 

During her four years as a columnist for Inc.com, Betsy was named a Top 30 contributor. Her Creative Confidence column covered innovative hiring practices, workplaces, and design. She was previously a regular contributor to Chicagoist.com where she covered Chicago’s literary scene, wrote book reviews, and interviewed authors.

When not hunched over her keyboard, Betsy is training for her next marathon and trying to remember to stretch. She enjoys sunny Midwestern summers, checking out too many library books, and sleep.