I’m Lydialyle Gibson, a magazine writer and editor based in Boston.
Since 2015, I’ve worked at Harvard Magazine, and before that, I spent 10 years at the University of Chicago Magazine. I write often about medicine, society, and the arts, and my work has won national awards. I grew up in a textile town in southern Virginia and on my grandparents’ farm in eastern North Carolina. I studied journalism and poetry at Northwestern University and creative writing at Johns Hopkins University. Afterward, I worked as a reporter for the Chicago Journal, a start-up weekly newspaper covering the rapidly changing neighborhoods south and west of the Loop. My work there won three Lisagor Awards from the Chicago Headline Club.
As a freelance writer, I’ve contributed to Our State magazine, Chicago magazine, Cleveland Magazine, Indianapolis Monthly, Chicago Parent magazine, the Chicago Tribune, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio, and Humanities magazine, among other publications.
Occasionally I play ice hockey and even more occasionally the mandolin. During summers I go back to North Carolina to fish with my cousins in the waterways we’ve known since childhood.
I’d love to hear from you. (Especially if you are an editor with a story that needs a writer!) Email me at lydialyle[at]gmail.com. Or follow me on twitter. Here’s a link to my resume.