As host of Re:sound, a production of the Third Coast International Audio Festival, Gwen features the works of audio producers from around the world each week on Chicago Public Radio. She is an award-winning writer and producer whose radio essays have been heard on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition Saturday. She is also a reporter and essayist for NPR.

Gwen joined the staff of Chicago Public Radio in 1984 as an assistant producer for the program Airplay, later becoming a producer for various talk shows. She was an associate producer at Radio Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. and a freelance associate producer at NPR before returning to Chicago Public Radio in 2003 to host Re: sound.

Gwen received a Gold Award for “Independent Producer” from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. She has also received a New York Festival Award.

Gwen is the creator of the television sitcom What About Joan, starring Joan Cusack, and is the author of Lipshtick (HarperCollins), a book of humorous first-person essays.

Gwen has a B.A. in Rhetoric from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

A native of Chicago, Gwen resides in Evanston, Illinois, with her husband, Paul, and three children.