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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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SUMMARY:Irene Lo
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 10am \n \nIrene Lo is a singer\, dancer\, actress originally from Taiwan. She has a bachelor degree in voice at National Taiwan Normal University and has danced with the Chinese Arts Dance Ensemble in many International Art Dance Festivals in Europe. A graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy NY musical theater program\, her favorite professional theater credits include: The King & I\, The Music Man\, South Pacific\, and Amahl and the Night Visitors. She has also performed with the Taiwan Ballet Company 20-21 season\, singing with the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra. In 2024\, she won Miss Chinatown Chicago 2024 2nd Runner-up.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/irene-lo/
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SUMMARY:Daniel Lefferts
DESCRIPTION:Plymouth Court Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 3pm \n \nDaniel Lefferts is a writer living in the Hudson Valley. He holds an MFA from Columbia University and has taught writing at Columbia and Rutgers. His debut novel\, Ways and Means\, was published in February 2024\, and his writing has appeared in the Paris Review and elsewhere.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/daniel-lefferts/
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SUMMARY:Amy Leach
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place Stage (1st floor)\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 12pm \n \nAmy Leach is the author of The Salt of the Universe\, The Everybody Ensemble\, and Things That Are. She grew up in Texas and earned her MFA from the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Her work has appeared in The Best American Essays\, The Best American Science and Nature Writing\, and numerous other publications\, including Granta\, A Public Space\, Orion\, Tin House\, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She is a recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award\, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award\, and a Pushcart Prize. Leach lives in Bozeman\, Montana.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/amy-leach/
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SUMMARY:Priscilla Layne
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 3:30pm \n \nPriscilla Layne is Professor in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures and an Adjunct Associate Professor in African\, African American\, and Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is also the Director of the Center for European Studies. Her Ph.D. in German is from UC Berkeley. Her publications include White Rebels in Black: Appropriating Black Popular Culture in Postwar Germany (Michigan University Press) and a critical guide to Fassbinder’s The Marriage of Maria Braun with Camden House. Her monograph\, Out of this World: Afro-German Afrofuturism\, is forthcoming with Northwestern University Press.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/priscilla-layne/
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SUMMARY:Shayla Lawson
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place Stage (2nd floor)\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 3pm \n \nShayla Lawson is the author of A Speed Education in Human Being\, Pantone\, I Think I’m Ready to See Frank Ocean\, This is Major: Notes on Diana Ross\, Dark Girls and Being Dope\, and How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memor. They have written for Bustle\, Romper\, Salon\, Tin House\, PAPER\, ESPN\, Salon\, Guernica\, Vulture\, The Cut and New York Magazine\, been awarded fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Artist Colony\, and a nonfiction finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle and LAMBDA Literary Award. They’re from Lexington\, Kentucky\, but they’ve lived everywhere.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/shayla-lawson/
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SUMMARY:Mark Larson
DESCRIPTION:Plymouth Court Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 11am \n \nMark Larson is the author of Ensemble: An Oral History of Chicago Theater\, for which he conducted over 300 interviews with Chicago theater artists. His new book\, Working in the 21st Century: An Oral History of American Work in a Time of Social and Economic Transformation\, was released in 2024 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Studs Terkel’s Working. In March Working in the 21st Century was named one of the best books of the year\, so far\, by Esquire. Larson is currently working on a series of interviews with the iconic Broadway composer\, John Kander (Cabaret\, Chicago\, New York\, New York).
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/mark-larson/
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SUMMARY:Joan Larkin
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 12pm \n \nJoan Larkin’s newest book is Old Stranger\, her sixth collection of poems\, published by Alice James Books in August 2024. Previous titles include Blue Hanuman and My Body: New and Selected Poems\, winner of the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde award. A lifelong teacher and poet\, Joan co-founded Out & Out Books during the 1970s surge in feminist publishing and co-edited the groundbreaking anthologies Amazon Poetry and Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time. Her honors include Lambda and NEA awards and the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/joan-larkin/
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SUMMARY:Yohance Lacour
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 2pm \n \nYohance Lacour is a writer from the South Side\, committed to telling stories of Black Chicago from the ground. After serving a decade-long sentence in federal prison\, he returned home in 2017 to resume his tradition of Black storytelling\, hosting the award winning podcast\, You Didn’t See Nothin\, with the Invisible Institute. He currently facilitates workshops for system-impacted youth and runs the luxury sneaker label YJL. His artwork is in the permanent collection of several museums including the Dubuque Museum of Art and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/yohance-lacour/
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SUMMARY:Daniel Kraus
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 5pm \n \nDaniel Kraus is a New York Times bestselling writer of novels\, TV\, and film whose work has been translated into over twenty-five languages. His novel Whalefall won the Alex Award\, was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist\, and was a Best Book of 2023 from NPR\, The New York Times\, Chicago Tribune\, and more. With Guillermo del Toro\, he wrote The Shape of Water (based on the same idea the two created for the Oscar-winning film) and Trollhunters (adapted into the Emmy-winning Netflix series). He also cowrote The Living Dead and Pay the Piper with legendary filmmaker George A. Romero.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/daniel-kraus/
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SUMMARY:Marianna Kontos
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 10am \n \nMarianna Kontos is a Technical Theatre Artist/Choreographer based in the Chicago Suburbs.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/marianna-kontos/
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SUMMARY:Meg Kissinger
DESCRIPTION:Plymouth Court Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 12pm \n \nMeg Kissinger\, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and author\, will help you see and think about people with mental illness in a new light. Her engaging memoir\, While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence has been praised for its incisive reporting\, boundless compassion and surprising humor. It was named as an Outstanding Work of Literature winner and an editors’ choice by The New York Times\, the Los Angeles Times\, Amazon\, Goodreads and Independent Booksellers Association. Audible chose While You Were Out as the Best of the Year. Kissinger taught investigative reporting at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and is a trainer for the school’s Dart Center on Trauma and Journalism.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/meg-kissinger/
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SUMMARY:Crystal Hana Kim
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 5pm \n \nCrystal Hana Kim is the author of The Stone Home (2024) and If You Leave Me (2018)\, which was named a best book of 2018 by over a dozen publications. She is the recipient of the 2022 National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award\, nominated by Min Jin Lee. She is also a 2017 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize winner. Her work has been published in The Paris Review\, Guernica\, ELLE\, and elsewhere. She is a contributing editor at Apogee Journal and lives in Brooklyn\, New York with her family.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/crystal-hana-kim/
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SUMMARY:Abby Kieffer
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 10am \n \nAbby is so excited to be a part of the Broadway Dropouts! She enjoys performing and has been in roles such as Pat in Kinky Boots and Ensemble in the Drowsy Chaperone and RENT! When she is not performing she teaches 7th grade math! She wants to thank her friends in the Familia de Teatro for all the support and love and her husband for always being her biggest fan!
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/abby-kieffer/
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SUMMARY:Emily Kellogg
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place Stage (2nd floor)\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 1pm \n \nEmily Kellogg is the Program and Operations Manager at the Carol Shields Prize Foundation. Her writing has appeared in publications such as The Globe and Mail\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Humber Literary Review\, and Room Magazine. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Emily is the co-creator and writer of the audio drama\, Parkdale Haunt\, called “one of the world’s most popular horror-fiction podcasts” by The Toronto Star\, as well as the audio drama Woodbine Investigations\, which will be released through Realm Media in fall 2024. She resides in Toronto\, Canada.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/emily-kellogg/
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SUMMARY:Jack Keilman
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 10am \n \nJack Keilman is a professional actor who has just moved to Chicago and is happy to join Broadway Dropouts as his first improv troupe. He studied theatre at Columbia College Chicago and earned a BA in musical theatre in 2023. Some of local credits include Literary Concerts Chicago’s Unofficial Hunger Games Musicals (as the drunk mentor Haymitch) and Natural Talent Productions recent production of Anastasia the Musical (as Dimitri).
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/jack-keilman/
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SUMMARY:Meghan Elizabeth Kallman
DESCRIPTION:Plymouth Court Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 10am \n \nMeghan Elizabeth Kallman is a professor\, organizer\, and a State Senator\, representing Rhode Island District 15. She and Josephine Ferorelli founded the organization Conceivable Future in 2014 to recognize that environmental collapse is now a major factor in family planning. Together they are the authors of The Conceivable Future: Planning Families and Taking Action in the Age of Climate Change.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/meghan-elizabeth-kallman/
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SUMMARY:Jim Joyce
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place Stage (1st floor)\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 10am \n \nJim Joyce is a high school teacher and zine writer from Chicago. His work is available through Antiquated Future distro and Quimby’s Bookstore.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/jim-joyce/
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SUMMARY:Valerie C. Johnson\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:Plymouth Court Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 5pm \n \nDr. Valerie C. Johnson is Associate Provost for DEI\, Inclusion\, Associate Professor of Political Science\, and Endowed Professor of Urban Diplomacy at DePaul University. She is the co-editor with Jennifer Ruth and Ellen Schrecker of The Right to Learn: Resisting the Right-Wing Attack on Academic Freedom (2024). Her research interests include Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion (DEI)\, African American politics\, urban politics\, and education policy\, with a particular emphasis on the politics of urban education.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/valerie-c-johnson-ph-d/
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SUMMARY:Archy Jamjun
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 1pm \n \nArchy Jamjun is the curator of OUTspoken: LBGTQ+ Storytelling at Sidetrack. He is also a two-time winner of The Moth Grand Slam in Chicago. His writing has been published by Barrel House\, Chicago Magazine\, and The Rumpus.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/archy-jamjun/
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SUMMARY:Sarah Jaffe
DESCRIPTION:Plymouth Court Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 3pm \n \nSarah Jaffe is a writer and reporter living in New Orleans and on the road. She is the author of Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion To Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited\, Exhausted\, and Alone; Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt\, and the forthcoming From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire\, all from Bold Type Books.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/sarah-jaffe/
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SUMMARY:Mark Jacob
DESCRIPTION:Plymouth Court Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 4pm \n \nMark Jacob’s latest book is Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports\, co-written with his brother\, Matthew Jacob. Mark is the co-author of nine other books\, most of them related to history. He was metro editor of the Chicago Tribune\, Sunday editor of the Chicago Sun-Times and website editor of Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative. He writes the Stop the Presses newsletter on media and politics. Mark served as Tribune columnist Mary Schmich’s editor when she won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/mark-jacob/
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SUMMARY:Scoop Jackson
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 3pm \n \nRobert Scoop Jackson is currently a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. Previously he was senior writer and national columnist for ESPN\, senior editor for Slam Magazine\, executive editor for XXL Magazine. He is the author of several books\, including\, ICE: Why I Was Born To Score (The Autobiography of George Gervin)\, The Game Is Not A Game: The Power\, Protest and Politics of American Sports and Sole Provider: 30 Years of Nike Basketball. A graduate of Howard University (MA) and Xavier University (BA) and a National Dean’s List member (1991). He is the president of Strong Island Media CHI agency.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/scoop-jackson/
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SUMMARY:Lindsay Hunter
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 12pm \n \nLindsay Hunter is the author of two story collections and three novels. Her latest novel\, Hot Springs Drive (Roxane Gay Books) was a Washington Post Pick for 12 Best Thrillers of 2023. She produces and hosts the podcast I’m a Writer But\, a series about writers with lives and how they make it all work (or don’t). She lives in Chicago with her family.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/lindsay-hunter/
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SUMMARY:Renaldo Hudson
DESCRIPTION:Plymouth Court Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 4pm \n \nA community organizer\, Renaldo Hudson (he/him) is the director of Education at Illinois Prison Project. After being sentenced to death row and while serving 37 years in prison\, Hudson developed and implemented groundbreaking programs inside the Department of Corrections\, including the prison newspaper Stateville Speaks and the Building Block Program\, in the Illinois Department of Corrections. Hudson’s work and life have been featured in such media outlets as the BBC\, Chicago Tribune\, Chicago Magazine\, and others. Renaldo sits on the board of JHA/Real Youth Initiative among others.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/renaldo-hudson/
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SUMMARY:Jane Hseu
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 2pm \n \nJane Hseu is a Professor of English at Dominican University\, board member of the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame\, and core organizer for Banyan: Asian American Writers Collective. She has published personal essays and poetry and is currently at work on a memoir about a family history of mental illness. At Dominican\, she teaches racial minority US literatures and writing creative nonfiction. She regularly presents and facilitates at venues such as the APIDA Arts Festival\, Fuller Award for Lifetime Achievement\, American Writers Festival\, and Casa de las Americas (Cuba) in order to build community and encourage storytelling for social change.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/jane-hseu/
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