Kyle Beachy

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Kyle Beachy

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Kyle Beachy is a novelist and essayist living in New Mexico. His memoir-in-essays, The Most Fun Thing (Grand Central, 2021), was named a Best Book of 2021 by NPR and Electric Lit. His writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Harvard ReviewThe Point, Portable Gray, Southwest Review, Thrasher Magazine, and elsewhere. For many years he lived in Chicago and was an associate professor at Roosevelt University, helping run their MFA program. He is the recipient of a Mellon Collaborative Fellowship from the Gray Center at the University of Chicago, and, in addition to teaching, works as an editorial consultant. His first novel, The Slide (The Dial Press, 2009), was the Chicago Reader's Readers' Choice for Best Book By a Chicago Author in 2009.

Classes with Kyle Beachy

8-Week: More Than Self—Creative Nonfiction
Nonfiction/Memoir

8-Week: More Than Self—Creative Nonfiction

August 21, 2025

4-Week: Craft Lessons From Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping
Fiction, Nonfiction/Memoir

4-Week: Craft Lessons From Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping

September 15, 2025

Kyle Beachy's Published Work