COD Voices
Published articles from COD Annuitants
David McGrath, Tom Mongomery Fate, and
Gloria Golec
David McGrath
David McGrath, Emeritus English professor, College of DuPage, and freelance columnist for the Chicago Tribune, has published over 500 essays and short stories in newspapers, journals, and magazines.
He is currently a contributing editor and outdoors writer for Florida Sportsman magazine.
He won an award from American Educator magazine for his essay “Getting to Thanatopsis,” and he was a finalist for the annual EdPress Award Competition for his essay “Castle in Ruins,” about the challenges facing Chicago Public Schools.
His story "His Intimacies With Lake and Stream" in Notre Dame Magazine was cited in BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2022. "Growing Up Racist on the South Side" was included in the Chicago History Museum & Sun Times collection of iconic photos of the city's history.
HIs other books include "South Siders", a collection of essays; "The Territory", an anthology of his stories; "Siege at Ojibwa", a novel; and his latest novel "Far Enough Away."
Tom Montgomery Fate
Tom Montgomery Fate is a professor emeritus at College DuPage in Glen Ellyn IL, where he taught creative writing and literature courses for more than 30 years. He is the author of six books of creative nonfiction, including The Long Way Home: Detours and Discoveries, a travel memoir (Ice Cube Press, 2022), Cabin Fever, a nature memoir (Beacon Press), and Steady and Trembling, a spiritual memoir (Chalice Press). A regular contributor to the Chicago Tribune, his essays have appeared in the Boston Globe, Baltimore Sun, Orion, The Iowa Review, Christian Century, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, and many others. Dozens of his essays have also aired on NPR, PRI and Chicago Public Radio.
