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SUMMARY:C. Russell Price
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 5pm \n \nC. Russell Price is an Appalachian punk poet originally from Glade Spring\, Virginia. They are the author of Tonight\, We Fuck the Trailer Park Out of Each Other\, oh you thought this was a date?!: Apocalypse Poems and the recently published collection Bisquick: An American Seance (Northwestern University Press). They are a Lambda Fellow\, Ragdale Fellow\, and two time top 50 writers of Chicago. They are a poet in residence with the Chicago Poetry Center and an editorial collective member of The Anarchist Review of Books. Price landscapes in Chicago.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/c-russell-price/
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SUMMARY:Brooke Nevils
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSunday 9/13 – 2pm \nThe journalist Brooke Nevils Thompson (USA)\, New York\, New York\, June 25\, 2025. Photograph © Beowulf Sheehan\nBrooke Nevils is an author\, journalist and mom. Her book\, Unspeakable Things: Silence\, Shame and the Stories We Choose to Believe\, is a vital examination of our most persistent and dangerous misunderstandings\, myths and stereotypes about sexual harassment and assault. Part memoir\, part investigative journalism\, Unspeakable Things weaves her experience as one of MeToo’s defining stories with groundbreaking interviews of leading clinicians\, forensic professionals\, attorneys and frontline researchers to challenge our understanding of consent\, power and the lingering\, often misunderstood effects of trauma and shame. A graduate of the John Hopkins University\, Brooke lives with her family in Maryland.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/brooke-nevils/
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SUMMARY:Brian Trapp
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSunday 9/13 – 12pm \n \nBrian Trapp is the author of Range of Motion (2025)\, out now from Acre Books. He is the director of disability studies at the University of Oregon\, where he also teaches creative writing and serves as the editor of the Northwest Review. His work has been published in the Kenyon Review\, Southern Review\, Longreads\, Brevity\, and elsewhere. He grew up near Cleveland\, Ohio\, with his twin brother\, Danny.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/brian-trapp/
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SUMMARY:Brian Hieggelke
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 \nBrian Hieggelke is the co-founder of Newcity magazine\, now celebrating its fortieth anniversary since its founding in Printers Row. The publication is the largest arts and culture magazine in the Midwest. Hieggelke has completed eight Chicago and one New York City marathons.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/brian-hieggelke/
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SUMMARY:Brian Bouldrey
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSunday 9/13 – 10am \n \nBrian Bouldrey is an Associate Professor of Instruction at Northwestern University. The recipient of a Lambda Literary Award\, among other honors\, he is the author of ten books\, most recently\, The Good Pornographer\, as well as Good in Bed: A Life in Queer Sex\, Politics\, and Religion. He is the editor of Inspired Journeys: Travel Writers in Search of the Muse and six other anthologies. He has published three previous novels\, including The Boom Economy.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/brian-bouldrey/
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SUMMARY:Brenda Cárdenas
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 4:30pm \n \nCurrent Wisconsin Poet Laureate and former Milwaukee Poet Laureate Brenda Cárdenas has authored Trace (Red Hen Press)\, winner of the 2023 Society of Midland Authors Award for Poetry and silver winner of Foreword Review’s Indie Poetry Prize; Boomerang (Bilingual Press); and three chapbooks. She also co-edited two anthologies\, including Resist Much/Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance. Her poems have been published in such venues as Poetry\, American Poetry Review\, Prairie Schooner\, and the Library of America’s Latino Poetry anthology\, among many others. Cárdenas is Professor Emerita of English at UW-Milwaukee and serves on Woodland Pattern’s Board of Directors .
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/brenda-cardenas/
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SUMMARY:Blair Glaser
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 5pm \n \nBlair Glaser is a writer and leadership consultant whose essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times\, Fortune\, Longreads\, Oldster\, Inside Higher Ed\, and others\, as well as in literary magazines such as Brevity\, Dorothy Parker’s Ashes\, and In Short. Her debut memoir\, This Incredible Longing was published in February 2026 by Heliotrope. She lives with her husband and dog-ter\, Vanna White\, in Venice Beach\, CA. More can be found at www.blairglaser.com.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/blair-glaser/
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SUMMARY:Bindu Bansinath
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place\, 1st Floor\n(637 S. Dearborn St.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 11am \n \nBindu Bansinath is a senior writer at New York Magazine’s The Cut\, where she covers everything from crime and class to news\, culture and relationships. She previously worked as an assistant editor at Harper’s. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, Electric Literature\, and more. Her 2025 New York Magazine article\, “The Nanny Squatter\,” is currently being adapted into an Apple TV series starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Cecily Strong\, directed by Mary Bronstein. Men Like Ours is her first novel.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/bindu-bansinath/
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SUMMARY:Bill Hillmann
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place\, 1st Floor\n(637 S. Dearborn St.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 3pm \n \nBill Hillmann is a writer\, author and professor. He is also a bull-runner and a former Chicago Golden Gloves boxing champion. He is the author of two memoirs and two novels\, most recently White Flight. Hillmann’s writing has appeared at various outlets including NPR\, VICE\, Washington Post\, Toronto Star\, CNN\, Chicago Tribune\, Daily Mail. And various others. He’s a professor at East-West University in Chicago.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/bill-hillmann/
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SUMMARY:Bill Healy
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 11am \n \nAn award-winning podcast producer\, Bill Healy co-created “You Didn’t See Nothin”\, which won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting and a Peabody Award. Healy has worked on stories for NPR\, the BBC and This American Life\, and spent years editing StoryCorps for Chicago’s public radio station\, WBEZ.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/bill-healy/
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SUMMARY:Bill Ayers
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSunday 9/13 – 4pm \n \nBill Ayers\, formerly Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) has written extensively about social justice and democracy\, education and the cultural contexts of schooling\, and teaching as an essentially intellectual\, ethical\, and political enterprise. His books include A Kind and Just Parent; Fugitive Days: A Memoir; Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident; To Teach: The Journey\, in Comics; Race Course: Against White Supremacy; Demand the Impossible!; and When Freedom is the Answer…
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/bill-ayers/
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SUMMARY:Betsy Bird
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 10am \n \nBetsy is the author of multiple books for children including Pop! Goes the Nursery Rhyme with Andrea Tsurumi and the upcoming Terrible Terrible Birds with Matthew Cordell. She is a librarian\, the creator of the Fuse #8 Production site of children’s literature on SLJ\, and a podcaster about picture books at Fuse 8 n’ Kate.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/betsy-bird/
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SUMMARY:Beth Granger
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 5pm \n \nBeth grew up in a Christian cult\, believing that she’d become a drug addicted streetwalker if she ever left. Instead\, after her escape at age 31\, she forged a seemingly successful life for herself as a teacher\, a wife and a mother. She also spearheaded a 16-year landmark class action lawsuit against her abusers. Writing her memoir played an essential part of Beth’s healing when it became clear that she couldn’t outrun her trauma. She is a 2025 Journey First Place Winner with the Chanticleer International Book Awards and is the recipient of the 2026 CANREADS award for Best Memoir.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/beth-granger/
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SUMMARY:Ben Tanzer
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSunday 9/13 – 12pm \n \nEmmy-award winner Ben Tanzer’s novel The Missing was released in March 2024 by 7.13 Books and was a Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year finalist\, his new book After Hours: Scorsese\, Grief and the Grammar of Cinema was released by Ig Publishing in May 2025\, and Ben’s short story collection Human Noise will be released by Thirty West Publishing in Spring 2027. Ben is also the host of the long running podcast This Podcast Will Change Your Life and lives in Chicago with his family.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/ben-tanzer/
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SUMMARY:Ben Austen
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 3:30pm \n \nBen 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.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/ben-austen/
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SUMMARY:Barry Pearce
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 3pm \n \nBarry Pearce is the author of The Plan of Chicago: A City in Stories\, a story cycle that received starred reviews in Kirkus and Booklist and prompted Chicago magazine to call him “the modern-day Algren.” He has won the Nelson Algren Award Grand Prize\, a City of Chicago Individual Artists Program grant\, and an Illinois Arts Council Award. His fiction has appeared in The Chicago Tribune\, Cimarron Review\, Colorado Review\, Puerto del Sol\, and elsewhere. He lives in Chicago\, where he works as a ghostwriter and occasional teacher.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/barry-pearce/
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SUMMARY:Barbara Egel
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSunday 9/13 – 2pm \n \nBarbara Egel is a Chicago poet and critic and the co-director of the program in Design Thinking and Communication at Northwestern. Her most recent work appeared in Ploughshares\, Spring 2026.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/barbara-egel/
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SUMMARY:avery r. young
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSunday 9/13 – 3pm \n \nInterdisciplinary artist avery r. young [he\, him\, his] is an American Laureate Fellow and a co-director of The Floating Museum. He is a recipient of the Walder Foundation’s Platform Award\, as well as a 3Arts and Meier Foundation awardee. A Cave Canem alum\, his visual art\, sound pieces and written works have been featured in numerous publications\, festivals and exhibitions. His full length recording tubman. is the soundtrack to his debut book\, neckbone: visual verses. He’s the librettist/composer for the new American opera safronia\, and the playwright/composer of the score to his play\, maim de looter(s).
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/avery-r-young/
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SUMMARY:Atima Omara
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 12:30pm \n \nAtima Omara is a nationally recognized award-winning political strategist\, leader\, writer\, and advocate. She worked for two decades in electoral politics and the progressive movement. Atima is Founder and Chief Strategist of the Omara Strategy Group\, an award winning political & advocacy consulting firm. She is a commentator on politics\, policy\, race\, gender and culture. Atima has been quoted in The New York Times\, Boston Globe\, and The Atlantic; appeared on CNN\, MSNOW\, Fox News\, and NPR; written for Washington Post\, The American Prospect\, The Root\, Teen Vogue. She’s been named EBONY Magazine’s “Power 100”. The Instigators is Atima’s first book
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/atima-omara/
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SUMMARY:Aria Aber
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place\, 2nd Floor\n(637 S. Dearborn St.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 2pm \n \nAria Aber is the author of the novel Good Girl (Hogarth\, 2025)\, which was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize\, the Vermont Book Prize\, and the Edmund B. White Award. She is the recipient of a Whiting Award and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship. She is an assistant professor at the University of Vermont and divides her time between Brooklyn and Vermont.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/aria-aber/
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SUMMARY:Anne K. Ream
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 12:30pm \n \nAnne K. Ream is the co-founder of Center for Story & Witness\, a global testimonial writing program for survivors of gender based violence and other human rights violations; a co-founder of World Without Exploitation\, the national coalition to end human trafficking; and the author of Lived Through This\, a literary and photographic memoir of her multi-country journey spent listening to sexual violence survivors\, which has been praised as “heartfelt and beautifully rendered” by Eve Ensler. The recipient of numerous awards for her work using story to create social change\, Anne currently serves as board president at Justice for Migrant Women.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/anne-k-ream/
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SUMMARY:Anna-Marie Kontos
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSunday 9/13 – 10am \n \nAnna-Marie has been an educator for over 30 years and a Broadway Dropout for two years! She loves learning new things and found her way into the troupe with her clever wit and constant kindness. Anna-Marie loves spending her free time with her family\, attending shows\, and taking long walks down the aisles of TJ Maxx! She looks forward to sharing the fun of Broadway Dropouts with the community!
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/anna-marie-kontos/
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SUMMARY:Ann McGlinn
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place\, 2nd Floor\n(637 S. Dearborn St.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 11am \n \nAnn McGlinn is the author of two novels\, El Penco (2014) and Ride On\, See You (2023)\, both published by Cuidono Press.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/ann-mcglinn/
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SUMMARY:Angie Elita Newell
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place\, 1st Floor\n(637 S. Dearborn St.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 2pm \n \nAngie Elita Newell is the award winning indigenous author of All I See is Violence\, a proud member of the Liidlii Kue First Nations and a trained historian\, Angie wanders this earth with her daughters\, always looking for the next story\, knowing the only thing that will ever matter is love.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/angie-elita-newell/
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SUMMARY:Andrew S. Curran
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 4pm \n \nAndrew S. Curran is a prize-winning writer who argues the eighteenth century is still with us — its science\, its ideas\, its blind spots. His work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Guardian\, The Wall Street Journal\, and the New York Review Books. His new book\, Biography of a Dangerous Idea: A New History of Race from Louis XIV to Thomas Jefferson\, is a sweeping account of an idea that built the modern world. His previous books include the acclaimed biography of Diderot and Who’s Black and Why?\, with Henry Louis Gates\, Jr.\, winner of a 2023 AAP Award.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/andrew-s-curran/
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SUMMARY:Andrew Carter
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 11am \nChicago Tribune reporter Andrew Carter on Tuesday\, March 25\, 2025. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)\nAndrew Carter is a senior reporter at the Chicago Tribune\, with a focus on deeper human interest narrative stories. He was part of a Tribune team that earned the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in local reporting.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/andrew-carter/
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SUMMARY:Andrea Uptmor
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSunday 9/13 – 4pm \n \nAndrea Uptmor received her MFA in fiction at the University of Minnesota\, and her short fiction has been published in McSweeney’s\, PANK\, and The Masters Review\, among others. She lives in the Chicago area with her family.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/andrea-uptmor/
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SUMMARY:Ana Holguin
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSunday 9/13 – 5pm \n \nAna Holguin grew up in the American Southwest and eventually made her way to the other side of the Mississippi\, where she landed in Chicago. She now lives and writes in the City of Broad Shoulders. Second Chance Duet is her latest novel.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/ana-holguin/
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SUMMARY:Amran Gowani
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSunday 9/13 – 12pm \n \nAmran Gowani is a former organic chemist and financial analyst turned full-time author and stay-at-home dad. His first novel Leverage\, a darkly funny and grimly topical Wall Street satire\, was named a Best Book of 2025 by CrimeReads.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/amran-gowani/
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SUMMARY:Amina Gautier
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place\, 1st Floor\n(637 S. Dearborn St.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 12pm \n \nAmina Gautier is the author of At-Risk\, Now We Will Be Happy\, The Loss of All Lost Things\, and The Best That You Can Do. The Best That You Can Do was awarded the Midwest MLA Book award\, three International Latino Book Awards\, a Silver IPPY Award\, a Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Award Honorable Mention and was Longlisted for The Joyce Carol Oates Prize and The Story Prize. For her body of work\, she has received The Chicago Public Library Foundation’s 21st Century Award\, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/amina-gautier/
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