Megan Ritt came to Chicago with a box full of books and the highest of literary aspirations. She discovered rather quickly that it’s much easier to collect books than to write them. Almost entirely undaunted, she completed her MA in Writing from DePaul University. She also holds a BA in English and Communications from the University of Michigan (Go Blue!).
When she’s not teaching college students the lost art of the comma or polishing her essay collection, Megan enjoys baking, swimming, and rambling around the city. You can find her in front of a bar television on most hockey and football game days. She also loves exploring new music and is currently nursing a burgeoning interest in electronic.
In what may well prove to be the greatest moment of her life, Megan met Chris Conley after Saves the Day opened for Alkaline Trio in April ’09, and she’s proud to report that she cried like a little girl.
Favorite artists: Saves the Day, Rufus Wainwright, Regina Spektor, Neutral Milk Hotel, Bayside, Norah Jones, Mike Doughty, Devendra Banhart, Dispatch, Get Up Kids, Feist, The Chemical Brothers, Zee Avi, the National, the Mountain Goats
Articles by Megan Ritt
By Megan Ritt on May 25th, 2012
Summer arrives in Chicago
By Megan Ritt on May 6th, 2012
Straight black coffee for the brain: classic, strong, and jumpy.
By Megan Ritt on May 2nd, 2012
One of those ironic titles.
By Megan Ritt on March 23rd, 2012
One of the great secrets of Michigan's indie scene does jangly nerve rock.
By Megan Ritt on March 12th, 2012
In need of a strong-willed, impartial editor.
By Megan Ritt on March 11th, 2012
A heartfelt and unpretentious night...
By Megan Ritt on March 5th, 2012
It's a five-string gourd banjo, obviously!
By Megan Ritt on February 15th, 2012
Bayside frontman delivers lackluster EP.
By Megan Ritt on February 8th, 2012
Everything we wouldn't even have dared to imagine.
By Megan Ritt on January 27th, 2012
The GUK frontman gives us a simple, transcendent exercise in songwriting.