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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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SUMMARY:Amber Dow
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place\, 2nd Floor\n(637 S. Dearborn St.)\nSaturday 9/13 – 12pm \n \nA 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 American Psycho the musical with Kokandy Productions (Jeff Award-Best Musical\, Jeff-Nominated-Best Ensemble); Nurse/Crone in the world premiere of MEDEAMEDEAMEDEA with Theatre Evolve; Donna Sheridan in Mamma Mia!; Patsy Cline in Always…Patsy Cline; various TV/film credits. Thanks to Craig for the opportunity to be a part of this potent live documentary. Insta: @ambadow
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/amber-dow/
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SUMMARY:Alejandra Oliva
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place\, 2nd Floor\n(637 S. Dearborn St.)\nSunday 9/13 – 11:30am \n \nAlejandra 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 Astra House\, and received a Whiting Nonfiction Grant. She was the Yale Whitney Humanities Center Franke Visiting Fellow in Spring 2022.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/alejandra-oliva/
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SUMMARY:Albert DeGenova
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 3pm \n \nAlbert 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 Spalding University in Louisville and is the retired Executive Director of Write On\, Door County\, a Wisconsin literary arts center.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/albert-degenova/
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SUMMARY:Adrienne Gunn
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 4pm \n \nAdrienne 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 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/
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SUMMARY:Abby Hofmeister
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 \nScreenshot\nAbby 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 roles include Ensemble in Little Shop of Horrors\, Rent\, The Drowsy Chaperone\, and Pat in Kinky Boots. When she’s not performing\, she teaches 7th grade ELA as well as directing her school’s plays. But the best role and job she has now is mama to her newborn baby boy\, Theo! She can’t wait to bring her son into the amazing world of improv and theatre!
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/abby-hofmeister/
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SUMMARY:Adrian Matejka
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 1:30pm \n \nAdrian 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 poetry. His first graphic novel Last On His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century (Liveright\, 2023) was a finalist for the 2024 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work. His selected poems\, Be Easy: New and Selected\, was published by Liveright May 2026. He lives in Chicago and is editor-in-chief of Poetry magazine.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/adrian-matejka/
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SUMMARY:Abby Geni
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place\, 1st Floor\n(637 S. Dearborn St.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 2pm \n \nAbby 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; The Lightkeepers\, winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover Award and the Chicago Review of Books Awards; and The Last Animal\, a finalist for the Orion Book Award. Her short stories and essays have appeared in dozens of literary publications\, including Best American Mystery and Suspense\, The Missouri Review\, Epoch\, Ninth Letter\, and New Stories from the Midwest.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/abby-geni/
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