Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 2:30pm Kasey Evans is associate professor of English literature at Northwestern University, where she has taught since 2005. Her current, seemingly-endless book project explores fantasies of resurrection in Renaissance literature.
Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 5pm Michelle Falkoff’s first young adult novel, Playlist for the Dead, was selected as an NPR Great Read. She is also the author of three other YA novels, most recently How to Pack for the End of the World. Her stories and reviews have been ... Read more
Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 10am David Faris is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Roosevelt University, a contributing writer at Slate, The Week and Newsweek and the author of It's Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics and The Kids Are ... Read more
Grace Place Stage (1st floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 11am In the fifth grade, Emily won the DARE essay contest. Since then, she’s written for many publications you’ve actually heard of, and her 2024 essay collection, I‘ll Just Be Five More Minutes: And Other Tales from My ADHD Brain (Hachette Books) is an Amazon Editor’s ... Read more
Plymouth Court Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 10am Josephine Ferorelli is a writer, illustrator, and yoga instructor who makes her home in Chicago, Illinois. She and Meghan Kallman 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 ... Read more
Grace Place Stage (2nd floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 1pm Kim Coleman Foote was born and raised in New Jersey where she started writing fiction at the age of seven(ish). A recent fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, she has received additional fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York ... Read more
Plymouth Court Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 1pm David Friend, an editor at Vanity Fair, is the author of The Naughty Nineties. Formerly LIFE's director of photography and an award-winning curator, he has executive produced films such as 9/11 (for which he won an Emmy), MLK/FBI (shortlisted for an Oscar), and Lakota Nation Vs. United ... Read more
Center Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 2pm Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago photographer Alex Garcia has been called "one of the world's leading photojournalists" by HarperCollins. He has worked on staff at the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune where he received a World Press Photo Golden Eye from work in Cuba, the country of his ... Read more
Center Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 2pm Sarah Geis is a long-time audio editor, producer, and educator. She likes experimenting with form, fighting for moments of poetry, and sneaking jokes into serious places. At the Invisible Institute she was the story editor of the podcast Somebody, which was a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize, ... Read more
Sarah Gerard is the author of the essay collection Sunshine State, a New York Times Critics’ and NPR Best Book of the Year, finalist for the Southern Book Prize, and a longlist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award; the novels True Love and Binary Star, a finalist for the LA Times First Fiction Prize; and the chapbook ... Read more
Center Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 4pm Reginald Gibbons has published 11 books of poems, including Creatures of a Day (Finalist for National Book Award), the novel Sweetbitter (Anisfield-Wolf Book Award), and two books of very short fiction, as well as many translations and co-translations of poetry from Spanish, ancient Greek, and Russian. He was ... Read more
Plymouth Court Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 2pm Erica Griffin serves as the Elizabeth F. Cheney Director of Education at the Chicago History Museum, leading the Museum’s teaching, learning, and engagement efforts. She is committed to inspiring learners of all ages and backgrounds to investigate Chicago’s rich history, meeting curiosity with credible historical engagement. Erica ... Read more
Plymouth Court Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 11am Kate Harding is the author of Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and co-editor of Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance and Revolution in Trump's America. She holds an MFA in fiction and a PhD in nonfiction and has taught creative writing at StoryStudio Chicago and ... Read more
Center Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 10am Gavin Harper is a seasoned performer and teacher with over a decade of experience. He currently serves as a full-time conductor with Uniting Voices Chicago teaching hundreds of students. He is also a music director for Street of Dreams Theater and freelance vocal director at various theaters. He ... Read more
North Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 3pm Miles Harvey is the author of The Registry of Forgotten Objects (Mad Creek Books, 2024), a collection of short stories that won the Journal Non/Fiction Prize. His most recent work of nonfiction, The King of Confidence (Little, Brown & Co., 2020), was a New York Times Book Review ... Read more
Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 12:30pm Cristina Henríquez is the author of The Great Divide, The Book of Unknown Americans, The World In Half, and Come Together, Fall Apart: A Novella and Stories. She has been longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was a finalist ... Read more
Jazz Showcase Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 4:30pm Marcy Rae Henry is a multidisciplinary Latina/e artist originally from the Borderlands and author of We Are Primary Colors (DoubleCross Press), the body is where it all begins (forthcoming from Querencia Press), dream life of night owls (forthcoming from Open Country Press) and red delicious (forthcoming from ... Read more
Grace Place Stage (2nd floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 10am Ashley Honeysett's debut book, Fictions, won the Miami University Press Novella Prize.
North Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 10am Keisha Howard, founder of Sugar Gamers since 2009, champions inclusivity in gaming and tech. With over 15 years of experience, she is a two-time TEDx speaker and International Video Game Hall of Fame inductee. Recognized by the Chicago Council of Science and Technology, her work fosters innovation, social ... Read more
North Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 10am Anna Hozian was one of twelve women chosen for the inaugural year of the New York Women in Film and Television’s The Writers Lab funded by Meryl Streep. In addition to winning or placing in some of the most prestigious screenwriting contests (The Black List Lab, the Nicholl, ... Read more
North Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 2pm Jane 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 ... Read more
Plymouth Court Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 4pm A 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 ... Read more
Center Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 12pm Lindsay 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 ... Read more
Center Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 3pm Robert 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 ... Read more
Plymouth Court Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 4pm Mark 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 ... Read more