Chicago-based writer/producer Brad Flora is a graduate student at the Medill School of Journalism, where he's focused on new media journalism. He's covered arts and culture in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood and breaking news at the Markham Courthouse in Chicago's south suburbs, where a story he wrote about a successful alternative education program for drug offenders prompted lawmakers to reconsider cutting the program's funding.

Brad's work has appeared in Slate Magazine, the Chicago Defender, Northwest Indiana Times, Daily Southtown, and EContent Magazine, where he writes about technology and social networking. Brad is the publisher and founder of the Chicago Methods Reporter. He man's the site's Wish You Were Here column when he's not dealing with a service outage or design problem.

Brad is a voracious reader, with a love/hate relationship with genre fiction. The massive number of mystery, horror and adventure novels he read growing up had an undeniable impact on how he sees the world and left him with many wonderful, fictional memories. BUT the massive number of mystery, horror and adventure novels he read growing up had an undeniable impact on how he sees the world and left him with many wonderful, fictional memories.

He can be reached at brad.flora@methodsreporter.com