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SUMMARY:Corrbette Pasko
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 1pm \n \nCorrbette Pasko is an actor/writer/singer/host/producer and your mom’s favorite\, even when she swears. She is the creator of the GenX Update on TikTok and Instagram\, where she delivers news\, pop culture\, and calls to action with a healthy dose of snark. She is the host and producer of Write Club Chicago\, a 14-year-old live lit event that is Literature as Bloodsport. She is also a voiceover artist\, featured in the award-winning podcast Unwell: A Midwestern Gothic Mystery\, and you can also hear her voice when you call to order flowers\, get internet for your home\, or yell to speak to an agent.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/corrbette-pasko/
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SUMMARY:Sara Paretsky
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 10am \n \nSara Paretsky revolutionized the mystery world in 1982 when she introduced V.I. Warshawski in Indemnity Only. V.I. challenged a genre in which women historically were vamps or victims instead of active problem-solvers. In 1986 Paretsky created Sisters in Crime\, an international advocacy group for women crimewriters. Her awards include the Edgar Grand Master and the British Diamond Dagger for her lifetime achievements\, and Ms. Magazine’s Woman of the Year. She has published twenty-four novels\, a memoir\, and a half dozen short story collections. She is in demand as a speaker on censorship\, women’s rights\, and other social justice issues.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/sara-paretsky/
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SUMMARY:Kevin Pang
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 1pm \n \nKevin Pang is the author of A Very Chinese Cookbook\, named one of the best cookbooks of 2023 by The New York Times\, Amazon\, and Serious Eats. He is a former food writer at the Chicago Tribune and currently contributes to Esquire and The New York Times.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/kevin-pang/
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SUMMARY:Raul Palma
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place Stage (2nd floor)\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 12pm \n \nRaul Palma is the author of A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens (Dutton)\, and In This World of Ultraviolet Light (Indiana University Press). He is a member of the fiction faculty at Ithaca College\, and the Associate Dean of Faculty and New Initiatives in Ithaca College’s School of Humanities and Sciences.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/raul-palma/
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SUMMARY:Janika Oza
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place Stage (2nd floor)\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 1pm \n \nJanika Oza is the author of A History of Burning\, winner of the 2024 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature\, finalist for the 2023 Governor General’s Award for Fiction\, finalist for the 2024 Carol Shield’s Prize\, and New York Times Editor’s Choice. She is the winner of 2022 O. Henry Award and 2020 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Award. Janika was a 2023 Bread Loaf Fiction Fellow and has received support from The Millay Colony\, the Toronto Arts Council\, the Ontario Arts Council\, and the Canada Council for the Arts. She is an assistant editor for The Rumpus and lives in Toronto.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/janika-oza/
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SUMMARY:Uche Okonkwo
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 2:30pm \n \nUche Okonkwo’s stories have been published in A Public Space\, One Story\, the Kenyon Review\, Ploughshares\, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019\, and Lagos Noir\, among others. A former Bernard O’Keefe Scholar at Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and resident at Art Omi\, she is a recipient of the George Bennett Fellowship at Phillips Exeter Academy\, a Steinbeck Fellowship\, a MacDowell Fellowship\, and an Elizabeth George Foundation grant. Okonkwo grew up in Lagos\, Nigeria\, and is currently pursuing a creative writing PhD at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/uche-okonkwo/
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SUMMARY:Olivia Obineme
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 4pm \n \nOlivia Obineme (she/they) is a content and people strategist\, media entrepreneur\, and visual journalist based in Chicago. She directs journalism and media engagement at Public Narrative\, fostering narrative change through community bridge-building and programming. Olivia also coaches for the 2024 Local News Accelerator program at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. A first-generation Nigerian-American and Baltimore native\, she holds a master’s degree in media innovation from Northwestern. Her award-winning work has been featured in various publications. Olivia has also led key initiatives\, including the hybrid 2023 FOIA Fest.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/olivia-obineme/
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SUMMARY:Ugochi Nwaogwugwu
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place Stage (1st floor)\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 10am \n \nUgochi Nwaogwugwu is a multidisciplinary creative. Her poems have been published in Storm Between Two Fingers and Too Young\, Too Loud\, Too Different\, both international anthologies released in the UK\, Golden Shovel Anthology\, honoring Gwendolyn Brooks\, The Eternal Year of African People\, Wherever I’m At\, released nationwide\, and Not My President\, published by Third World Press in 2017. Ugochi’s first book of poetry & prose entitled Seasons of Separation\, was published in 2023. Ugochi also created an original pan African poetry form called Ike (pronounced EE-kay) #Ikepoem\, paying homage to her Igbo heritage of Nigeria and fostering black appreciation worldwide.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/ugochi-nwaogwugwu/
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SUMMARY:Martha C Nussbaum
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place Stage (1st floor)\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 2pm \n \nMartha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics\, appointed in the Philosophy Department and the Law School of the University of Chicago. She gave the 2016 Jefferson Lecture for the National Endowment for the Humanities and won the 2016 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy. The 2018 Berggruen Prize in Philosophy and Culture\, and the 2020 Holberg Prize. These three prizes are regarded as the most prestigious awards available in fields not eligible for a Nobel. She has written more than twenty-two books\, including Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions; Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment\, Generosity\, Justice; Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities; and The Monarchy of Fear.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/martha-c-nussbaum/
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SUMMARY:Arionne Nettles
DESCRIPTION:Plymouth Court Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 2pm \n \nArionne Nettles is a professor\, culture reporter\, and audio aficionado who serves as the Garth C. Reeves Eminent Scholar chair and instructor for digital journalism at Florida A&M University. As a journalist\, her stories often look into Chicago history\, culture\, gun violence\, policing\, and race and class disparities\, and her work has appeared in the New York Times Opinion\, Chicago Reader\, The Trace\, WTTW\, and WBEZ. She is the author of We Are the Culture: Black Chicago’s Influence on Everything\, published by Lawrence Hill Books/Chicago Review Press.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/arionne-nettles/
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SUMMARY:Jamie Nesbitt Golden
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 4pm \n \nJamie Nesbitt Golden is a reporter for Block Club Chicago where she covers Bronzeville and the Near South Side. The Bronzeville native’s work has also appeared in xoJane\, Salon and Time. She has won several awards\, including the 2023 Journalist of Distinction from the National Association of Black Journalists. Jamie currently lives in Hyde Park with her husband and son.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/jamie-nesbitt-golden/
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SUMMARY:Samhita Mukhopadhyay
DESCRIPTION:Plymouth Court Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 11am \n \nSamhita Mukhopadhyay is the former executive editor of Teen Vogue and former executive editor at Feministing. As a writer\, her work has appeared in New York Magazine\, The Cut\, Vanity Fair\, Vogue\, The Atlantic Monthly\, and Jezebel. Born in New York City\, Mukhopadhyay lives between Putnam County and Brooklyn\, NY.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/samhita-mukhopadhyay/
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SUMMARY:Simone Muench
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 10am \n \nSimone Muench is the recipient of an NEA Poetry Fellowship; the 2023 Lewis University Career Scholarship Award; a 2023 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship\, and the Meier Foundation for the Arts Award. She is the author of seven full-length books including The Under Hum\, cowritten with Jackie K. White\, (Black Lawrence Press\, May 2024). She is the creator of the Hungry Brain Sunday Reading Series that she co-hosts with Kenyatta Rogers. She serves as poetry editor for JackLeg Press\, a poetry editor for Tupelo Quarterly\, and faculty advisor for Jet Fuel Review.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/simone-muench/
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SUMMARY:Zak Mucha
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 5pm \n \nZak Mucha\, LCSW\, is a psychoanalyst in private practice and president of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. He is the author of Swimming to the Horizon: Crack\, Psychosis\, and Street-Corner Social Work and The Ambulatorium.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/zak-mucha/
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SUMMARY:Natalie Y. Moore
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place Stage (2nd floor)\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 3pm \n \nNatalie Y. Moore is a senior lecturer at Northwestern University.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/natalie-y-moore/
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SUMMARY:Jose-Luis Moctezuma
DESCRIPTION:Jazz Showcase Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 4:30pm \n \nJose-Luis Moctezuma is a Xicano poet\, essayist\, and researcher. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Chicago. His chapbook\, Spring Tlaloc Seance\, was published by Projective Industries in January 2016. His first full-length book\, Place-Discipline\, was published by Omnidawn in October 2018. Place-Discipline was selected by Myung Mi Kim as the winner of the 2017 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Prize. His second book\, Black Box Syndrome\, was published by Omnidawn in December 2023. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC).
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/jose-luis-moctezuma/
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SUMMARY:Ethan Michaeli
DESCRIPTION:Plymouth Court Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 5pm \n \nEthan Michaeli is an award-winning author of two non-fiction books\, Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel\, (Custom House\, 2021)\, and The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America\, (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, 2016). The New York Times praised The Defender as “…a towering achievement that will not be soon forgotten\,” and Twelve Tribes for “…illuminating conversations with a wide variety of ordinary people — ultra-Orthodox Jews\, Holocaust survivors\, aging kibbutzniks\, Ethiopian and Russian immigrants\, Arab citizens of Israel\, Jewish settlers and Palestinians in the West Bank — fill the pages of this richly descriptive book.”
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/ethan-michaeli/
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth McKenzie
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place Stage (2nd floor)\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 2pm \n \nElizabeth McKenzie’s novel The Dog of the North was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. Her novel The Portable Veblen was longlisted for the National Book Award for fiction\, shortlisted for the Women’s Prize\, and received the California Book Award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Tin House\, and others. McKenzie is the managing editor of Catamaran and Senior Editor of Chicago Quarterly Review. She recently completed a translation of Giacomo Sartori’s Anatomy of the Battle through an NEA Translation Fellowship with partner Michela Martini.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/elizabeth-mckenzie/
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SUMMARY:Ann McGlinn
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 4pm \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:Marty McConnell
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 1pm \n \nMarty McConnell is a poet\, educator\, and healer based in Chicago. She is the author of the poetry collections when they say you can’t go home again\, what they mean is you were never there and wine for a shotgun as well as Gathering Voices: Creating a Community-Based Poetry Workshop. She is the co-creator/co-editor of underbelly\, a web site focused on the art and magic of revision\, and is the curator of the Chicago Poetry Center’s monthly Blue Hour workshop and reading series.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/marty-mcconnell/
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SUMMARY:Jared Mayer
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place Stage (1st floor)\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 2pm \n \nJared Mayer is a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Prior to joining the Law School\, Jared was an associate at Ropes & Gray\, LLP and a law clerk to Justice Barry T. Albin (ret.) of the New Jersey Supreme Court. Jared received his BA (with honors) and MA – both in philosophy – from Johns Hopkins University\, and his JD (with honors) from the University of Chicago Law School.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/jared-mayer/
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SUMMARY:Christine Maul Rice
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 3pm \n \nChristine Maul Rice’s novel\, Swarm Theory\, was called “a gripping work of Midwest Gothic” by NPR and won numerous awards. Most recently\, her short stories\, essays\, and interviews have appeared in Allium\, Make Literary Magazine\, The Rumpus\, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, The Millions\, Roanoke Review\, and The Literary Review\, among others. Christine is the founder and editor of Hypertext Magazine and is an Assistant Professor of English at Valparaiso University. Her latest novel\, based on the Flint water crisis\, is forthcoming.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/christine-maul-rice/
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SUMMARY:Adrian Matejka
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 4pm \n \nAdrian Matejka is the author of seven books\, most recently a mixed media collection inspired by Funkadelic\, Standing on the Verge & Maggot Brain (Third Man Books\, 2021) and a collection of poems\, Somebody Else Sold the World (Penguin\, 2021)\, which was a finalist for 2022 UNT Rilke Prize. His first graphic novel Last On His Feet (Liveright\, 2023) was selected as one of the ten best books of 2023 by the New York Public Library and was a finalist for the 2024 Eisner Award. He is the editor of Poetry magazine.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/adrian-matejka/
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SUMMARY:David Masciotra
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 10am \n \nDavid Masciotra is the author of six books\, including Exurbia Now: The Battleground of American Democracy\, and I Am Somebody: Why Jesse Jackson Matters. He has written for Salon\, the Washington Monthly\, The New Republic\, and many other publications about politics\, music\, and literature. He and his wife live in Northwest Indiana\, where he teaches at Indiana University Northwest.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/david-masciotra/
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SUMMARY:Gordon Mantler
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 11am \n \nDr. Gordon Mantler teaches writing and history at the George Washington University in Washington\, D.C. He specializes in 20th-century U.S. social justice movements\, multiracial coalitions\, and public memorialization. His first book\, Power to the Poor: Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice\, was the inaugural volume in the Justice\, Power\, and Politics series at the University of North Carolina Press in 2013. His second book\, The Multiracial Promise: Harold Washington’s Chicago and the Democratic Struggle in Reagan’s America\, was published in 2023 and has won awards from the Organization of American Historians and the Illinois State Historical Society.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/gordon-mantler/
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Makkai
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 5pm \n \nRebecca Makkai is the author of New York Times bestseller I Have Some Questions for You\, as well as four other works of fiction. Her last novel\, The Great Believers\, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award\, and was the winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize among other honors. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow\, Rebecca teaches graduate fiction writing at Middlebury College\, Northwestern University\, and UNR Tahoe\, and she is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/rebecca-makkai/
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SUMMARY:Thomas Maier
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place Stage (2nd floor)\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 11am \n \nThomas Maier is an award-winning author\, investigative reporter\, and television producer. He is the author and a producer of Paramount’s Mafia Spies and Showtime’s Masters of Sex\, both based on his books. A former Chicago Sun-Times reporter\, Maier has written nine books\, including Dr. Spock\, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. In 2022\, he won the Columbia Journalism School alumni award. Although Maier resides in New York\, his son Andrew Maier and his wife Leah Jackson live in Chicago.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/thomas-maier/
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SUMMARY:Shawntelle Madison
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place Stage (1st floor)\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 3pm \n \nNew York Times bestselling author Shawntelle Madison has written over 15 science fiction\, fantasy\, and romance titles\, most notably the urban fantasy series Coveted. Her next release\, The Fallen Fruit\, is a multi-generational time-travel epic (HarperCollins\, September 3\, 2024). She earned her undergraduate degree in Math from Iowa State University and her MFA from Lindenwood University. Originally from Iowa\, Shawntelle currently lives in Missouri with her family where she writes novels and works as a web developer.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/shawntelle-madison/
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SUMMARY:Steve Macek
DESCRIPTION:Plymouth Court Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 5pm \n \nSteve Macek is a Professor of Communication and Media Studies at North Central College in Naperville\, IL. He writes frequently about censorship\, academic freedom and First Amendment issues for Truthout\, Common Dreams\, The Progressive\, and other independent media outlets. He co-edited and contributed to the book\, Censorship\, Digital Media and the Global Crackdown on Freedom of Expression\, published earlier this year by Peter Lang. He is a longtime member of the American Association of University Professors and currently serve as vice president of the Illinois State Conference of the AAUP.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/steve-macek/
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SUMMARY:Claire Lombardo
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 12pm \n \nClaire Lombardo is the author of The Most Fun We Ever Had\, which has been optioned for television by Reese Witherspoon. She lives in Iowa City\, where she has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Grinnell College and works part-time as a bookseller at Prairie Lights Books.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/claire-lombardo/
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