North Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 12pm Chicago’s inaugural Poet Laureate, interdisciplinary artist avery r. young is an inaugural Walder Foundation Platform awardee, and recipient of the American Poet Laureate Fellowship. A co-director of The Floating Museum, his poetry, performance and composition have been featured and/or commissioned in several journals, exhibitions and operas. He is ... Read more
North Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 2pm Amy Yee is author of Far From the Rooftop of the World: Travels among Tibetan Refugees on Four Continents, with a Foreword by the Dalai Lama. The book is a finalist in Foreword's 2023 book contest. She is an award-winning journalist with the Chicago Sun-Times and previously with ... Read more
Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 5pm Caroline Woods holds an MFA in fiction from Boston University. She is the author of the novels The Mesmerist, The Lunar Housewife and Fräulein M., and she has taught fiction writing at Loyola University Chicago, Boston University, and the Boston Conservatory. Raised in Delaware, ... Read more
