Grace Place, 1st Floor (637 S. Dearborn St.) Saturday 9/12 - 2pm Abby Geni is a novelist and short story writer. She is the author of Children of the Wolf, The Body Farm, longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize and the Story Prize; The Wildlands, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; ... Read more
Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage (On W. Polk St., just east of Clark St.) Saturday 9/12 - 1:30pm Adrian Matejka is the author of eight books including The Big Smoke (Penguin, 2013), which was awarded the 2014 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in ... Read more
Center Stage (On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets, West Side of Dearborn.) Sunday 9/13 - 10am Screenshot Abby is so happy to be a part of Printer’s Row with the Broadway Dropouts! She has appeared in a few improv performances including Chicago’s Printers Row in 2024. Her other ... Read more
Center Stage (On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets, West Side of Dearborn.) Saturday 9/12 - 4pm Adrienne Gunn is a writer and podcaster obsessed with pop culture. Her bestselling novel Fan Favouite follows a messy thirtysomething as she plummets into the unhinged world of reality TV dating. Adrienne’s ... Read more
Digital Realty Stage (On W. Polk St., at Plymouth Ct.) Saturday 9/12 - 3pm Albert DeGenova is a poet, editor, and teacher. He is the author of five books of poetry and two chapbooks. In June 2000, he launched the literary/arts journal After Hours; he continues as publisher and co-editor. DeGenova holds an MFA from ... Read more
Grace Place, 2nd Floor (637 S. Dearborn St.) Sunday 9/13 - 11:30am Alejandra Oliva is an essayist, embroiderer and translator. Her writing has been included in Best American Travel Writing 2020, and was honored with an Aspen Summer Words Emerging Writers Fellowship. Her book, Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith and Migration, was published by ... Read more
Grace Place, 2nd Floor (637 S. Dearborn St.) Saturday 9/13 - 12pm A Northwestern University theatre graduate and recent Jeff Award Nominee for her turn as Paulina in The Winter's Tale at Invictus Theatre, other credits include: Barb in Four Places with 4 Chairs Theatre, Servant/Gentlewoman in Macbeth with Invictus Theatre (Jeff-Recommended); Mrs. Bateman in ... Read more
Grace Place, 1st Floor (637 S. Dearborn St.) Saturday 9/12 - 12pm Amina 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, ... Read more
Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage (On W. Polk St., just east of Clark St.) Sunday 9/13 - 12pm Amran 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 ... Read more
Center Stage (On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets, West Side of Dearborn.) Sunday 9/13 - 5pm Ana 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 ... Read more
Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage (On W. Polk St., just east of Clark St.) Sunday 9/13 - 4pm Andrea 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 ... Read more
Digital Realty Stage (On W. Polk St., at Plymouth Ct.) Saturday 9/12 - 11am Chicago Tribune reporter Andrew Carter on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune) Andrew 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 ... Read more