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SUMMARY:Martha Bayne
DESCRIPTION:Martha Bayne has worked in Chicago journalism and publishing for 30 years. Currently a senior acquisitions editor at the University of Illinois Press\, she has written a narrative cookbook\, has edited three acclaimed anthologies of nonfiction writing about Chicago and the Midwest\, and her reported work and essays have been published in many local and national outlets as well as on her Substack newsletter\, Range of Motion. Her new book Nothing Compares to You: What Sinéad O’Connor Means to Us\, coedited with Sonya Huber\, was published in July 2025 by Atria/One Signal.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/martha-bayne/
LOCATION:Center Stage\, 632 S. Dearborn Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60605\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lynn Sloan
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n5pm CT – North Stage \n \nLynn Sloan is the author of two novels\, Midstream (Fomite 2022) and Principles of Navigation (Fomite 2015)\, and the story collection This Far Isn’t Far Enough (Fomite 2018). Fortune Cookies\, a fine art book of her flash fiction was produced by Lark Sparrow Press in 2022. Her short fiction has appeared in Ploughshares\, along with other fine journals\, and included in NPR’s Selected Shorts. For many years she taught photography in the MFA program of Columbia College Chicago\, where she founded Occasional Readings in Photography and contributed to Afterimage\, Art Week\, and Exposure. www.LynnSloan.com
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/lynn-sloan/
LOCATION:North Stage\, On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr
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SUMMARY:Kevin Davis
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n5pm CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n \nKevin Davis is an award-winning journalist\, author and magazine editor based in Chicago. He is the author of three non-fiction books: The Wrong Man\, Defending the Damned and The Brain Defense. Davis has also authored eight nonfiction children’s books. His writing has appeared in USA Today\, The New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, Chicago Tribune\, Chicago magazine\, Utne Reader\, In These Times\, ABA Journal\, Reader’s Digest\, USA Weekend\, Encyclopaedia Britannica and many other publications.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/kevin-davis-2/
LOCATION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage
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SUMMARY:Janice Deal
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n5pm CT – North Stage \n \nJanice Deal is the author of The Blue Door\, a novel plus three previous books of fiction: Strange Attractors: The Ephrem Stories; The Sound of Rabbits\, a novel; and The Decline of Pigeons: Stories. She’s the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowship Award and has won The Moth Short Story Prize and the Cagibi Macaron Prize. Her books have been finalists for the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year\, the Flannery O’Connor Award\, the Black Lawrence Press Big Moose Prize\, and the Many Voices Project annual competition. She lives with her husband in the Chicago area. http://www.janicedeal.com.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/janice-deal-2/
LOCATION:North Stage\, On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr
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SUMMARY:Gina Frangello
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n5pm CT – Center Stage \n \nGina Frangello is the author of four books of fiction and two books of nonfiction\, most recently Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family\, Feminism\, and Treason\, and Elena Ferrante: The Neapolitan Novels. She is on faculty at UNR-Tahoe’s low residency MFA program and also teaches for Northwestern University’s School of Professional Studies. She obtained her PhD from University of Illinois at Chicago and divides her time between Chicago and the California desert.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/gina-frangello-2/
LOCATION:Center Stage\, 632 S. Dearborn Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60605\, United States
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SUMMARY:Erica Stern
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n5pm CT – North Stage \n \nErica Stern is the author of Frontier: A Memoir and a Ghost Story. Her work has been published in The Sun\, The Iowa Review\, Mississippi Review\, Denver Quarterly\, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has received support for her writing from the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. A New Orleans native\, she lives with her family in Evanston\, Illinois.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/erica-stern/
LOCATION:North Stage\, On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Earley
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n5pm CT – Plymouth Court Stage \n \nEarley is a the author of the popular Substack series\, Queering Reality\, with 100\,000 subscribers and of two novels: A Map of Everything\, a debut finalist for the Lambda Literary Prize; and Like Wings\, Your Hands (Red Hen Press)\, winner of the Women’s Prose Prize (judged by Aimee Bender)\, the American Fiction Prize for Best LGBTQ novel\, and a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction by the Publishing Triangle\, alongside Ocean Vuong and Jacqueline Woodson. Her debut memoir in essays\, Little Deaths All in a Row\, Essays on Sex and Death is just released.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/elizabeth-earley/
LOCATION:Plymouth Court Stage\, On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth CT.
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SUMMARY:Lindsay Fullerton
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n4pm CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \nLindsay Fullerton is a media studies scholar and historian originally from the Chicago area and now based in Cleveland\, Ohio. Lindsay is the author of Ephemeral City: A People’s History of Chicago’s Century of Progress World’s Fair (University of Illinois Press\, 2025)\, which traces the experiences of visitors to Chicago’s second world’s fair in 1933-34. Lindsay’s writing on A Century of Progress has also appeared in Midwest Architecture Journeys (Belt Publishing\, 2019). Lindsay holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/lindsay-fullerton/
LOCATION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage
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SUMMARY:Keir Graff
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n4pm CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n \nKeir Graff’s first work of nonfiction is Chicago’s Fine Arts Building: Music\, Magic\, and Murder! More typically\, he writes tales of marriages in trouble under the pen name Linda Keir with his coauthor\, Linda Joffe Hull\, and mysteries for middle-grade readers with James Patterson. Find out more by subscribing to his monthly newsletter\, Graff Paper\, at keirgraff.com/graff-paper.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/keir-graff/
LOCATION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage
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SUMMARY:Ashlee Piper
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n4pm CT – Plymouth Court Stage \nAshlee Piper is a sustainability expert\, commentator\, and speaker whose work has been featured on more 300+ TV segments\, and in Vogue\, The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, and more. Piper has spoken at the United Nations and SXSW and has a popular TED talk. She is also the creator of the #NoNewThings Challenge\, for which she received a 2022 Silver Stevie Award for Female Innovator of the Year. She holds a BA from Brown University and a master’s degree from the University of Oxford. She lives in Chicago in a home that’s 98 percent secondhand.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/ashlee-piper/
LOCATION:Plymouth Court Stage\, On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth CT.
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SUMMARY:Alison Cuddy
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n4pm CT – North Stage \n \nAlison Cuddy (she/her) is a Chicago based writer\, editor and audio producer whose work appears on such platforms as Newcity Magazine\, the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times\, WBEZ Chicago\, NPR\, the BBC and Monocle Radio. She has hosted and created several podcast series\, most recently 2023’s Library for the People\, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Chicago Public Library. Previously a long-time host at Chicago Public Radio and the former Artistic Director of the Chicago Humanities Festival\, she is a member of the City of Chicago’s Cultural Advisory Council and serves on the board of the Arts Club of Chicago.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/alison-cuddy/
LOCATION:North Stage\, On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr
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SUMMARY:Nora Brooks Blakely
DESCRIPTION:Nora Brooks Blakely founded Brooks Permissions\, in 2001\, to license and promote the work of her mother\, Gwendolyn Brooks by producing programming and publications which demonstrate her continuing relevance. The company recently published the 75th anniversary edition of Annie Allen\, the book that made Gwendolyn Brooks the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize. For more information\, go to gwendolynbrooks.net. \nMs. Blakely\, who has written plays for young audiences for many years\, has released her first picture book\, Moyenda and The Golden Heart (a Kwanzaa origin tale) and is hard at work on her next book for children.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/nora-brooks-blakely-2/
LOCATION:North Stage\, On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr
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SUMMARY:Rowan Beaird
DESCRIPTION:Rowan Beaird is a fiction writer whose work has appeared in The Kenyon Review\, The Southern Review\, and The Common\, among others. She is the recipient of the Ploughshares Emerging Writer Award\, and she has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and StoryStudio. Her first novel\, The Divorcées\, was named a best book by Harper’s Bazaar\, Elle\, People\, The Independent\, and the Chicago Review of Books. Her second novel\, Tenderness\, will be published in June 2026.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/rowan-beaird/
LOCATION:Plymouth Court Stage\, On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth CT.
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SUMMARY:Daria Lavelle
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n3pm CT – Plymouth Court Stage \n \nDaria Lavelle is a speculative fiction writer. Her short stories have appeared in The Deadlands\, Dread Machine\, Dark Matters\, and elsewhere\, and her debut novel\, Aftertaste\, was published by Simon & Schuster (US) and Bloomsbury (UK) in May 2025\, and is currently being translated into thirteen languages. Born in Kyiv\, Ukraine\, and raised in the New York metro area\, she holds degrees in writing from Princeton University and Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in New Jersey with her family\, and can often be found in a local coffeeshop\, inventing new worlds or distorting this one.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/daria-lavelle/
LOCATION:Plymouth Court Stage\, On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth CT.
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SUMMARY:Bernard C. Turner
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n3pm CT – North Stage \n \nBernard Turner is the executive director of the Bronzeville-Black Metropolis National Heritage Area focused on preserving the history and culture of Bronzeville. Author of several books about Chicago and African American History\, including A New View of Bronzeville and Tate and His Historic Dream\, Turner conducts neighborhood tours and step-on guide tours.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/bernard-c-turner/
LOCATION:North Stage\, On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr
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SUMMARY:Ananda Lima
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n3pm CT – Plymouth Court Stage \n \n​​Ananda Lima is the author of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil and Mother/land\, winner of the Hudson Prize. Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review\, Poets.org\, Electric Literature\, and elsewhere. She is a Contributing Editor at Poets & Writers and Program Curator at StoryStudio\, Chicago. Craft\, her fiction debut\, was longlisted for the Story Prize\, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and named Best of the Year by Library Journal\, Electric Literature\, Debutiful\, and more. The New York Times calls it “a remarkable debut that announces the arrival of a towering talent in speculative fiction.”
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/ananda-lima-2/
LOCATION:Plymouth Court Stage\, On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth CT.
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SUMMARY:A.D. Nauman
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n3pm CT – Plymouth Court Stage \n \nA.D. Nauman is an author and educator in Chicago. Her second novel\, Down the Steep (Regal House)\, was chosen as a 2024 Great Group Reads book by the Women’s National Book Association. The novel also won the 2024 FAW Literary Prize and was shortlisted for the Midland Authors Award and the Steinbeck Award. Nauman’s short fiction\, appearing in many literary journals\, has been recognized in Best American Short Stories and the Pushcart Prize anthology\, produced by Stories on Stage\, broadcast on NPR\, and granted an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award. Her first novel\, Scorch (Soft Skull/Counterpoint)\, was re-released in 2019.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/a-d-nauman/
LOCATION:Plymouth Court Stage\, On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth CT.
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SUMMARY:Natalie Caña
DESCRIPTION:Natalie Caña loves to incorporate her you’ll-never-believe-what-just-happened-to-me personal experiences\, enthusiasm for telenovela tomfoolery\, and love for her Latine culture into creating saucy stories with shenanigans and sabor.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/natalie-cana/
LOCATION:Center Stage\, 632 S. Dearborn Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60605\, United States
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SUMMARY:Susan Baller-Shepard
DESCRIPTION:Susan Baller-Shepard writes along a wilderness track\, amidst cornfields and big skies. A Presbyterian minister\, Susan’s writing has appeared in the Chicago Tribune\, The Washington Post’s On Faith section\, Spirituality & Health\, Writer’s Digest\, Intima\, Typishly\, Patheos\, Day One\, The Tattooed Buddha\, and other publications. Her poetry collection\, Doe was published in 2019\, two of Susan’s poems were included in a new anthology\, In the Footsteps of a Shadow: North American Literary Responses to Fernando Pessoa\, and a poem in America\, A Year From Now. A 2024 nonfiction essay of Susan’s was a finalist for the Perkoff Prize.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/susan-baller-shepard/
LOCATION:North Stage\, On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr
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SUMMARY:Kathleen DuVal
DESCRIPTION:Kathleen DuVal is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Native Nations: A Millennium in North America and Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution. A professor at the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill\, she teaches early American and Native American history. Her awards include a Guggenheim fellowship\, the Bancroft Prize\, and the Cundill History Prize. She has written for The Atlantic\, Time magazine\, and The New York Times\, and she is a regular book reviewer for The Wall Street Journal. She lives in Durham\, North Carolina.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/kathleen-duval/
LOCATION:Plymouth Court Stage\, On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth CT.
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SUMMARY:Danielle Jackson
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n2pm CT – Center Stage \n \nDanielle Jackson is a contemporary romance author\, avid reader\, lackluster-yet-mighty crafter\, and accomplished TV binge-watcher. Danielle has had the unique experience of working on almost every side of the book business—as a publicist at a publisher\, a managing editor of a book review website\, pop culture podcast co-host\, an events coordinator at an independent bookstore\, and now\, an author. When she’s not writing\, Danielle moderates and participates on industry panels and hosts a book club. Danielle lives in Chicagoland with her very own romance hero husband\, darling daughters\, and two tempestuous cats.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/danielle-jackson/
LOCATION:Center Stage\, 632 S. Dearborn Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60605\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cynthia Pelayo
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n2pm CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n \nCynthia Pelayo is a Bram Stoker Award-winning and International Latino Book Award-winning author and poet. Pelayo writes fairy tales that blend genre and explore concepts of grief\, mourning\, and cycles of violence. She is the author of Loteria\, Poems of My Night\, Into the Forest and All the Way Through\, Children of Chicago\, Crime Scene\, The Shoemaker’s Magician\, Forgotten Sisters\, Vanishing Daughters as well as dozens of standalone short stories and poems.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/cynthia-pelayo-2/
LOCATION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage
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SUMMARY:Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy
DESCRIPTION:Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy (Lumbee) is dean of Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy and the Carlos Montezuma Professor of Education and Social Policy. A member of the National Academy of Education and a fellow of the American Educational Research Association\, Brayboy’s research focuses on intersecting knowledge systems that illuminate the ways that institutional structures simultaneously hinder and enable the success of underserved students\, staff\, and faculty. His research also explores the ways that culture and cultural practices mediate and support Indigenous student learning\, community self-determination\, and tribal nation building
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/bryan-mckinley-jones-brayboy/
LOCATION:Plymouth Court Stage\, On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth CT.
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SUMMARY:Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis
DESCRIPTION:Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis\, author of Intaglio (Kent State University Press)\, and The Rub (Elixir Press) and several chapbooks\, lives in Columbus\, Ohio.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/ariana-sophia-kartsonis/
LOCATION:North Stage\, On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr
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SUMMARY:Amy Yee
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n2pm CT – North Stage \n \nAmy Yee is the author of nonfiction book Far from the Rooftop of the World: Travels among Tibetan Refugees on Four Continents with a Foreword by the Dalai Lama. It won Chicago Writers Association’s Book of the Year award for traditional nonfiction. \nShe is an award-winning journalist with the Chicago Sun-Times and previously Bloomberg/CityLab and Financial Times in India where she lived for seven years. She has written for New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, The Economist\, NPR and 30+ media outlets. \nAmy has had four Notable Essays in the Best American Essays and is a MacDowell fellow.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/amy-yee-2/
LOCATION:North Stage\, On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr
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SUMMARY:Adrienne Gunn
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n2pm CT – Center Stage \n \nAdrienne Gunn is a writer and podcaster obsessed with pop culture. Her bestselling novel Fan Favorite follows a messy thirtysomething as she plummets into the unhinged world of reality TV dating. Adrienne’s podcast\, Don’t Ruin This For Me\, revisits the 80s and 90s pop culture that set her on a path to total adult middle-aged disappointment. A long-time Chicagoan\, Adrienne’s been a columnist for Chicago Magazine\, appeared as a storyteller at Steppenwolf Theater\, and her one-woman show Mother of the Year! debuted and returned to sold out Windy City audiences. Visit her at www.adriennegunn.com.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/adrienne-gunn/
LOCATION:Center Stage\, 632 S. Dearborn Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60605\, United States
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SUMMARY:Khari B
DESCRIPTION:He’s produced three albums\, appeared on several others\, been published in a number of anthologies and released one book\, Haiku 4 Justice. He’s co-produced an award-winning documentary on his annual arts and music production\, “Thee Debauchery Ball\,” established 2004\, while developing educational content around correlations between expressions of Black sexuality and liberation the event embodies. He’s an Artist-In-Residence at the prestigious Purdue University since 2006\, creating\, educating\, producing and performing wherever he’s called under his philosophy “Make it happen.”
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/khari-b/
LOCATION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage
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SUMMARY:Jane S. Smith
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n1pm CT – Plymouth Court Stage \n \nJane S. Smith’s new book\, A Blacklist Education: American History\, a Family Mystery\, and a Teacher Under Fire\, reveals the little-known 1950s program to purge public schools of left-leaning teachers\, particularly in New York City. Other prize-winning books include Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vaccine\, The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants\, and Fool’s Gold\, a comic novel. A member of the Northwestern University History Department\, she received her PhD from Yale University. She lives in Chicago and works in a very small room with a very large window. Visit her at www.janessmith.com
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/jane-s-smith/
LOCATION:Plymouth Court Stage\, On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth CT.
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SUMMARY:Jane Hamilton
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n1pm CT – Center Stage \n \nJane Hamilton is the author of seven critically acclaimed and bestselling novels\, including The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World\, both of which were Oprah’s Book Club selections. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Allure\, Elle\, and various anthologies. She’s married to an apple farmer and lives in Wisconsin.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/jane-hamilton/
LOCATION:Center Stage\, 632 S. Dearborn Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60605\, United States
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SUMMARY:Faisal Mohyuddin
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n1pm CT – North Stage \n \nFaisal Mohyuddin is the author of Elsewhere: An Elegy (Next Page Press\, 2024)\, The Displaced Children of Displaced Children\, (Eyewear\, 2018)\, and the chapbook The Riddle of Longing (Backbone Press\, 2017). He teaches high school English in suburban Chicago and creative writing at Northwestern University’s School of Professional Studies. This past summer\, he was a visiting writer in Singapore with the Asia Creative Writing Programme. He is also a visual artist.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/faisal-mohyuddin-2/
LOCATION:North Stage\, On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr
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