Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage
(On W. Polk St., just east of Clark St.)
Saturday 9/12 – 3:30pm

Ben Austen is a journalist from Chicago. He is the author of Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change and High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing. A former editor at Harper’s Magazine, Ben teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Chicago. His feature stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, This American Life, GQ and other publications. Ben is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a National Headliner Award, a George Polk Award, and the Studs Terkel Award.