Adam Doster is a freelance writer and editor based in Chicago. For three years, Doster reported and blogged for Progress Illinois, writing extensively on state and city government. In 2010, he was part of the editorial team that received a Studs Terkel Community Media Award. Before PI, Doster frequently contributed to In These Times, where he covered the labor movement, education, and electoral organizing and was named senior editor. His freelance work has appeared in The Nation, Chicago Reader, The Classical, The American Prospect, and The Daily Beast, among other publications.

Doster grew up in Flossmoor, Illinois and graduated with university honors from the University of Michigan in 2007. While in Ann Arbor, he served as managing editor of The Michigan Independent, a monthly progressive magazine.