Editor-in-Chief
Lori Messing McGarry is a multi-media journalist, radio host, audio producer.
A native Nebraskan, she divides her time between Washington DC and New York City.
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An avid photographer and traveler, she has visited more than fifty countries.
She was a longtime Board Member of Arlington Independent Media and is currently a graduate student in Journalism at Georgetown University.
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Former Director of Policy with the Wireless Association in Washington, DC, she has served on federal advisory committees and international telecommunications standards groups.
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REAL FICTION FORUM merges Lori’s interest in public policy, civic discourse and journalism history and ethics.
Editor-in-Chief
Lori Messing McGarry
Who We Are
Real Fiction started as a six-episode radio program on a community radio station in metro Washington, DC with authors & creative minds discussing the real and imaginary forces that fuel stories.
It continued a four-year run, airing WERA-FM Radio and NPR’s KXCV in Missouri.
Real Fiction radio has hosted bestselling authors, scholars, policymakers and journalists and now exists as a podcast.
REAL FICTION FORUM is the next iteration – online forum, a podcast and a forthcoming literary travel journal.