About the Writers

Agony & Ivy is primarily written and maintained by Joel C. Boehm. JCB used to live in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago, and worked full time as a network technician and technical writer for a consulting company in the suburbs before resigning to move to Austin, Texas. After taking some time to complete some personal writing projects, he later enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, where he graduated with high honors. He writes this site as a hobby, and does not make any money whatsoever for it. He pays all expenses out of his own pocket. Although he does not anticipate returning to Chicago to live, he continues to follow the team closely and writes for A & I as much as time permits.
jcb@agonyandivy.com

The Eye of the Beerholder is contributed by Kevin J. Marks. A few seasons ago, KJM moved across Ashland Avenue from Chicago's Roscoe Village neighborhood into Lakeview. He works as a project manager for the municipal group of a civil engineering firm in the western suburbs. He is credited with coming up with both the title for this site and for his space on the site (KJM: "Catchy little play on words in the vein of my favorite poet/wordsmith James Buffett.") A skilled amateur photographer, he has taken nearly all of the photos seen on Agony & Ivy. He is a sports and music enthusiast -- especially fond of live events -- and can be found all over the Chicago scene. In 2009, he also launched Minor League Summer, a blog tracking his travels to minor league baseball games across the country.
kjm@agonyandivy.com

The View From Wrigleyville is no longer active, but was written by Peter McCleery. PMc is a lifelong Cub fan beginning in 1970 (he thankfully was away for the summer of 1969 with his cousin in Canada). A native of downstate Quincy, Ill (in deeply divided Cardinal-Cub country) he grew up listening to Vince and Lou on the radio and arguing with Redbird fans until attending Northwestern University in Evanston largely to be closer to the Cubs. He graduated from Medill School of Journalism in 1980 during the Herman Franks-Steve Ontiveros era. An award-winning professional sportswriter with Golf Digest Magazine and golfobserver.com, he was for many years a resident of Wrigleyville, and still keeps a close eye on the Cubs at home and away...until, like Peter Finch in "Network" he just can't take it anymore!!
pmc@agonyandivy.com

Westside Wavelength is not currently active, but was written by Jonathan M. Iseman, who lives near Logan Square.

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