Sunday, September 7th
12pm CT – North Stage

Dipika Mukherjee is a sociolinguist and the author of eight books, most recently the collection of travel essays, Writers’ Postcards. Her poetry collection, Dialect of Distant Harbors, was published by CavanKerry Press in October 2022, and won the Quill and Ink Award for Poetry in 2023; it was also shortlisted for a Chicago Review of Books (CHIRBy) Award. She is the recipient of a 2022 Esteemed Artist Award from the City of Chicago and teaches at the Graham School at University of Chicago and serves as Literary Life Ambassador for the Chicago Poetry Center.