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SUMMARY:Arjun "Chip" Rajan​
DESCRIPTION:Arjun “Chip” Rajan is in 7th grade. He plays football and soccer and loves chemistry. He has recorded musical and voice narration for the This is Music board book series.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/arjun-chip-rajan-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260908T080000
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SUMMARY:Madhavi "Mad" Rajan​
DESCRIPTION:Madhavi “Mad” Rajan is in 9th grade. She plays viola\, loves riding horses and wants to be a vet. She has recorded musical and voice narration for the This is Music board book series.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/madhavi-mad-rajan/
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SUMMARY:Ivan Torres​
DESCRIPTION:Ivan Torres will be performing as the Chicago Library’s Great Horned Owl for Saturday morning’s Storybook Children’s Parade. He is excited to do his small part in promoting books and reading to children in this digital age. He gives a hoot and intends to prove it! No matter the cost – ie\, sweat and possibly mild dehydration.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/ivan-torres/
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SUMMARY:Jeffrey Wheaton
DESCRIPTION:Born in Chicago\, IL\, Jeffrey’s interest in music began basically from the start of his existence. His earliest inspirations to pick up the art form came from watching his father\, sister\, aunts\, uncles and cousins play and sing in the church. In his junior year of high school\, Jeffrey picked up the bass and from there it developed into a driving passion. Eventually\, he went on to study music education at Chicago State University. As a freelance bassist\, he has performed in some of the midwest’s finest venues\, DIY spots\, and other interesting stages. As an independent artist\, Jeffrey focuses on cultivating a multi genre discography that expresses his love for “good music”\, and developing his YouTube channels. \nOriginal Music: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg6mPHkOE_qqOhmZW0ckEUA\nContent Creator channel: https://www.youtube.com/@jFfjF23
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/jeffrey-wheaton/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260903T080000
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SUMMARY:Deshon Johnson​
DESCRIPTION:Deshon Johnson came to Literacy Chicago in 2024 determined to strengthen his reading after years of living with a low level of literacy. Since then\, his progress has opened new doors personally and professionally. Deshon has launched his own chauffeuring company\, purchased his home\, and begun working toward his GED. An enthusiastic reader\, he is also writing his autobiography. Deshon gives back as a member of Literacy Chicago’s Associate Board and serves as a Brand Ambassador\, sharing his story to raise awareness about adult literacy. His journey reflects the power of determination\, opportunity\, education\, and believing in what is possible.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/deshon-johnson/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260903T080000
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SUMMARY:LaTanya Lane
DESCRIPTION:LaTanya Lane (she/her) is a writer and performer. She can be found telling jokes around town or performing stories as a company member with 2nd Story. You can learn more about LaTanya and her work at www.latanyalane.com.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/latanya-lane/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260831T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260831T170000
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SUMMARY:Nicholas Wade​
DESCRIPTION:Nicholas Wade has been a drummer since grade school and he enjoys performing with his band Distaff for the past 3 years. He lives in Rogers Park with his two sons and is excited to share his love of music with the Printers Row Lit Fest!
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/nicholas-wade/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260828T080000
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SUMMARY:E. Hughes
DESCRIPTION:E. Hughes is the author of two collections of poetry: Another Way to Say Dying (Autumn House Press 2027)\, which won the 2026 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics Book Prize and Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water (Haymarket Books\, 2024)\, which was longlisted for the 2025 Maya Angelou Book Award. Hughes is a graduate fellow of Cave Canem and a former Friends of the San Francisco Public Library Laureate. \nHughes received their MFA in Poetry and MA in English Literature from the Litowitz Creative Writing Program at Northwestern University. Currently\, Hughes is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at Emory University.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/e-hughes/
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SUMMARY:Alicia Ross
DESCRIPTION:Alicia Ross is the intrepid leader of the Sunday Smut adult romance book club and worm wrangler for the Adventurers Guild middle grade book club at Booked in Evanston. Born and raised in the south\, she arrived in Chicagoland by way of Northwestern and hasn’t left since becoming a regular at her local coffee shop. Alicia enjoys romances both weird and devastating\, adventures both cozy and treacherous\, talking about books of all kinds.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/alicia-ross/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260827T080000
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SUMMARY:Timothy David Rey
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 12pm \n \nTimothy David Rey (he/him) is a poet\, playwright: 2023 Eugene O’Neill Semi-Finalist for his play\, Zip!\, Survive\, and Thrive; 2-year grant awardee from Changing Worlds/Arts Work Fund\, Lambda Literary Fellowship\, 2022\, RHINO 2026\, Obsidian: 2022\, the Poetry Foundation\, Steppenwolf Theater Lookout Series\, and elsewhere. Recipient of the 2025 Gwendolyn Brooks Excellence in Teaching Award from the Chicago Poetry Center\, Co-curator of the summer poetry reading series\, “Poetry at Green\,” selected by Time Out Chicago as one of the 13 Essential Reading Series in the city. Rey is also a Newcity selection: “50 People Who Book in Chicago” (2025/2026)\, etc.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/timothy-david-rey/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260827T080000
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DTSTAMP:20260827T143126Z
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SUMMARY:Arjun "Chip" Rajan
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URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/arjun-chip-rajan/
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SUMMARY:Christina Gonzalez
DESCRIPTION:Christina Gonzalez serves as the Director of Finance and Human Resources for CLA (The Laundry Association) and the LaundryCares Foundation. As the daughter of Mexican immigrants\, Christina grew up speaking Spanish. Her parents taught her to value the stories\, culture\, and traditions of her Mexican heritage. That early connection continues to shape Christina’s passion for celebrating and preserving cultural heritage.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/christina-gonzalez/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260826T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260826T170000
DTSTAMP:20260827T042210Z
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SUMMARY:Zimbo Gessert
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place\, 2nd Floor\n(637 S. Dearborn St.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 12pm \n \nZimbo is a Chicago-based actor trained in stunts\, stage combat\, and martial arts. Represented by TalentXAlexander. A member of SAG-AFTRA. Previous credits include Sanctuary Stories\, Chicago PD\, Deli Boys\, Counterfeit Combat’s Bar Brawl\, and Point Theatre’s Gladiator Fight Night and Fright Night series. On his free time\, he continues to train and practice in order to create art you all will enjoy.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/zimbo-gessert/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260826T080000
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SUMMARY:Zayd Ayers Dohrn
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 3:30pm \n \nZayd Ayers Dohrn was born underground and raised in New York City. He is the author of the book Dangerous\, Dirty\, Violent\, and Young; creator of the hit podcast Mother Country Radicals\, and writer (with Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Tom Morello) of the punk rock protest musical Revolution(s). Awards include the DuPont Columbia Journalism Prize\, Best Audio Storytelling at the Tribeca Film Festival\, the Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Award\, and Theatre Master’s Visionary Playwrights Award. He is Daniel Hale Williams Professor and Director of the MFA in Writing for Screen + Stage at Northwestern University. www.zayddohrn.com
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/zayd-ayers-dohrn/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260826T080000
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SUMMARY:Yosha Gunasekera
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 3pm \n \nYosha Gunasekera is an attorney at the Innocence Project\, representing people who have spent decades behind bars for crimes they did not commit. She teaches a course on wrongful conviction and exoneration at Princeton University and is a former Manhattan public defender who has spoken extensively on the criminal legal system. Her debut novel\, The Midnight Taxi\, was named one of The New York Times’ best mysteries of the month\, and she was recognized as a Publishers Weekly Writer to Watch. The Midnight Taxi has been featured in CBS New York\, People\, Marie Claire\, Criminal Element\, and more.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/yosha-gunasekera/
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SUMMARY:Yolanda Nieves
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 4:30 \n \nYolanda Nieves is a poet and an activist-educator. She identifies as a second-generation Puerto Rican woman\, and her poetry and research have been widely published. With two acclaimed books of poetry published and is the winner of various awards\, including the American Educational Research Association’s Dissertation of the Year Award for Arts-Based Research/Theater and Production\, the Kirschner Teaching Award\, and the Norma Cantu Award for Creative Writing 2024. Nieves earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from Loyola University in Chicago\, a master’s degree from Northeastern Illinois University\, and an Ed.D in Adult Education/Critical Studies from National Louis University.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/yolanda-nieves/
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SUMMARY:Yasmina Din Madden
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place\, 1st Floor\n(637 S. Dearborn St.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 12pm \n \nYasmina Din Madden is the author of the story collection You Know Nothing\, Northwestern University Press (2026)\, named a most anticipated book of 2026 by the Chicago Review of Books. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in Electric Literature\, The Idaho Review\, The Fairy Tale Review\, and other journals. She is the winner of the Oxford Flash Prize and is an associate Professor of English at Drake University.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/yasmina-din-madden/
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SUMMARY:Will Boast
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place\, 1st Floor\n(637 S. Dearborn St.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 12pm \n \nWill Boast is the author of a story collection\, Power Ballads (University of Iowa Short Fiction Award)\, a memoir\, Epilogue (Liveright/Norton)\, and a novel\, Daphne (Liveright/Norton). His short fiction\, reporting\, criticism\, and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine\, The New Republic\, The Guardian\, and the Virginia Quarterly Review\, among other publications. He’s held fellowships from Stanford University\, the American Academy in Rome\, the University of East Anglia\, Yaddo\, and MacDowell. His second story collection\, The Submerged\, won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and was recently published by the University of Georgia Press.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/will-boast/
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SUMMARY:Wen Huang
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSunday 9/13\, 10am \n \nWenguang Huang is a Chicago-based writer and translator. A former staff member of The New York Times Beijing Bureau\, Huang is the author of The Little Red Guard\, a memoir and A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel\, an insider’s take on a political scandal that involved the murder of a British businessman in China. \nA recipient of the 2007 PEN Translation Fund Award\, Huang has translated many contemporary Chinese non-fiction works\, including Liao Yiwu’s Corpse Walker and God is Red and Yan Xianhui’s Women in Shanghai. He currently serves as editor in chief of Rotary Magazine.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/wen-huang/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260826T080000
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DTSTAMP:20260827T040753Z
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SUMMARY:Viet Thanh Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSunday 9/13\, 11am \n \nViet Thanh Nguyen is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer\, Nothing Ever Dies\, and\, most recently\, To Save and to Destroy. A recipient of the MacArthur Foundation and Guggenheim fellowships and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, Nguyen is Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/viet-thanh-nguyen/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260826T080000
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DTSTAMP:20260827T040622Z
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SUMMARY:Veronica I. Arreola
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSunday 9/13\, 11am \n \nVeronica I. Arreola is the author of the children’s board book\, J is for Justice: An Activism Alphabet\, one of the most banned books for the 2024-2025 school year. She spent three decades in higher education building award-winning diversity in science programs. Now she writes about women’s sports\, participates in Chicago’s live lit scene\, and consults with not-for-profits on their communication plans. Veronica is a longtime community activist and serves as a district councilor working on public safety and police accountability. Her writing has been published in outlets such as The New York Times\, The Guardian\, and Bitch Media (RIP).
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/veronica-i-arreola/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260826T080000
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DTSTAMP:20260827T040439Z
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SUMMARY:Veronica Chapa
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 10am \n \nVeronica Chapa is an author\, essayist\, and award-winning copywriter with a master’s degree in advertising from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She lives in the Chicago area with her husband.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/veronica-chapa/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260826T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260826T170000
DTSTAMP:20260827T040048Z
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SUMMARY:Vaishnavi Patel
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSunday 9/13\, 3pm \n \nVaishnavi Patel is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of Kaikeyi\, Goddess of the River\, Ten Incarnations of Rebellion\, and We Dance Upon Demons. Her work has been featured in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Bustle\, Paste\, Ms. Magazine\, and Buzzfeed. She is a lawyer specializing in constitutional law and civil rights\, including issues of gender and racial justice. She has lived in five states in the last five years\, but Chicago is home.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/vaishnavi-patel/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260826T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260826T170000
DTSTAMP:20260827T035823Z
CREATED:20260827T035823Z
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SUMMARY:Ugochi Nwaogwugwu
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSunday 9/13\, 2pm \n \nUgochi Nwaogwugwu is a multidisciplinary creative. Her poems have been published in Storm Between Two Fingers (Flipped Eye Publishing\, 2007) and Too Young\, Too Loud\, Too Different\, (Corsair Poetry\, 2021) both international anthologies released in the UK. Golden Shovel Anthology\, (The University of Arkansas Press\, 2017)\, The Eternal Year of African People\, (Frontline Book Publishing\, 2020) and Wherever I’m At\, (Published by The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame in partnership with After Hours Press & Third World Press\, 2022) released nationwide. Ugochi wrote Seasons of Separation (BookBaby\, 2023) and created an original pan African poetry form called\, Ike\, (pronounced EE kay) #Ikepoem.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/ugochi-nwaogwugwu/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260826T080000
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DTSTAMP:20260827T035600Z
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SUMMARY:Trygve Thoreson
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSunday 9/13\, 4pm \n \nTrygve Thoreson is Professor Emeritus of English and Humanities at Harper College\, Palatine\, Illinois. At Harper\, he designed and developed architecture tours of downtown Chicago for humanities students and currently serves as a volunteer host at the Chicago Architecture Center. His dual biography\, Daniel Burnham and Louis Sullivan: Personal Histories of Two Icons of American Architecture (2026)\, is currently available from the University of Illinois Press.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/trygve-thoreson/
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SUMMARY:Tracy Clark
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 2pm \n \nTracy Clark\, a native Chicagoan\, is the award-winning author of the Cass Raines Chicago Mystery series and the Detective Harriet Foster series\, both set in Chicago. She is a multi-nominated Anthony\, Lefty\, Edgar\, International Thriller Writers\, Macavity\, and Shamus Award finalist. Tracy is also the 2020 and 2022 winner of the G.P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award\, the 2022 Sara Paretsky Award\, the 2024 Lefty Award for Best Mystery Novel and the 2024 and 2025 Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/tracy-clark/
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DTSTAMP:20260827T035239Z
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SUMMARY:Toni Preckwinkle\, Cook County Board President
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 10am \nCenter Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 11:30 \n \nToni Preckwinkle is the 35th President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners and the first Black woman elected to the office. Since 2010\, she has led efforts to strengthen fiscal responsibility\, transparency\, and government services while restoring confidence in County government. President Preckwinkle oversees the nation’s second-largest county government\, including major public health and criminal justice systems. Under her leadership\, Cook County launched CountyCare\, expanded economic development initiatives\, and advanced criminal justice reform and community violence prevention efforts. A former Chicago alderman and history teacher\, she is a lifelong advocate for equity\, opportunity\, and public service.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/toni-preckwinkle-cook-county-board-president/
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SUMMARY:Tisa Bryant
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 5pm \n \nTisa Bryant is the author of Residual\, a nonfiction assemblage of the interiors of grief\, the home as archive\, and the mystery of mothers\, published in 2026 from Nightboat Books. Her first book\, Unexplained Presence\, a collection of hybrid essays on the mythologies of Black presences in film\, literature and visual art\, was reissued by Wave Books in 2024. She is editor of The Deep West Assembly\, a monograph of recent works by visual artist Cauleen Smith. Tisa Bryant is Associate Professor in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa\, and lives in Iowa City.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/tisa-bryant/
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SUMMARY:Timothy J. Hillegonds
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSunday 9/13\, 1pm \n \nTimothy J. Hillegonds is the author of the memoirs And You Will Call It Fate (University of Nebraska Press\, 2026) and The Distance Between (University of Nebraska Press\, 2019)\, a finalist for the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year and the Eric Hoffer Book Award. His work—exploring masculinity\, addiction\, and personal reckoning—has appeared in The Guardian\, LitHub\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, Salon\, The Daily Beast\, Fourth Genre\, River Teeth\, Brevity\, and elsewhere. Hillegonds holds an MA in Writing and Publishing from DePaul University and serves as a contributing editor at Slag Glass City.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/timothy-j-hillegonds/
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SUMMARY:Tim Chapman
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSunday 9/13\, 1pm \n \nTim Chapman is a former forensic scientist for the Chicago Police Department and English teacher at Malcolm X college. His fiction has been published in The Southeast Review\, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine\, and the anthologies\, The Rich and the Dead and Tales of the Fantastic. He is the author of the Sean McKinney novels A Trace of Gold and The Blue Silence and two novels for middle-grade kids: The Outcasts and The Song of the Bees. When he’s not writing he’s editing the journal Litbop: Art and Literature in the Groove\, teaching martial arts\, or painting pretty pictures.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/tim-chapman/
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