Center Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 4pm Nora Brooks Blakely (Literary Administrator, Author) founded Brooks Permissions, in 2001, to license and promote the work of her mother, Gwendolyn Brooks, by producing programming and publications which demonstrate Brooks’ continuing relevance. The company is currently spreading the word about AnnieAllen@75, a celebration honoring the 75th anniversary of ... Read more
Center Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 3pm Gayle Brandeis is the author of nine books, most recently Drawing Breath: Essays on Writing, the Body, and Loss. Her essays, short fiction, and poetry have appeared in O, The Oprah Winfrey Magazine, The New York Times, and more, and have won numerous awards, including the Columbia Journal ... Read more
North Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 11am Michael Burke is the author of the short story collection, What You Don’t Know About Men, and the plays Let’s Spend Money and Wama-Wama Zing Bing. He and his husband, magician Robert Charles, live in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood.
North Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 5pm Nancy Burke is a poet, fiction writer, psychoanalyst, and psychotherapy activist. Her work has appeared in Story International, Gramercy Review, After Hours, American Poetry Journal, Whitefish Review, Alaska Quarterly Review and other literary publications, and is forthcoming in Sky Island, Bicoastal Review, Dawn Review and elsewhere. Her writing ... Read more
North Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 1pm Gerald Butters is a Professor of History at Aurora University and teaches in the Masters of Liberal Studies graduate program at Northwestern University. A Fulbright Scholar, Butters has published four books. His upcoming book Censoring the City: Chicago, Morality and the Politics of Cinema will be published next ... Read more
Plymouth Court Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 12pm Eiren Caffall is a writer and musician. Her work has appeared in Guernica, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, Al Jazeera, The Rumpus, and the anthology Elementals: Volume IV. Fire (2024, The Center for Humans and Nature). She received a 2023 Whiting Award in Creative ... Read more
North Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 10am Susanna Calkins, a historian and educator, writes the award-winning Lucy Campion historical mysteries set in 17th century London and the Speakeasy Murders set in 1920s Chicago. She has published 9 novels, which have been nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award, as well as the Agatha, Anthony, and ... Read more
Plymouth Court Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 2pm Bonnie Jo Campbell is the author of the National Bestselling novels The Waters (the Today Show Jenna Book Club pick for January 2024) and Once Upon a River (both from W.W. Norton). Campbell’s critically-acclaimed short fiction collection American Salvage was a finalist for the National Book Award ... Read more
Grace Place Stage (2nd floor) Sunday, Sept. 8th at 11am The Rev. Amity trained as a scientist before taking a leap of faith to take part in a young adult service program. This life-changing experience eventually led to studying theology at Episcopal Divinity School, mission work in Kenya and diverse American communities, and ordained ministry. ... Read more
Grace Place Stage (1st floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 12pm Paula Carter is the author of No Relation, which was shortlisted for the Stanford Libraries William Saroyan International Prize. Her award-winning essays have appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, The Offing and ... Read more
Plymouth Court Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 3pm Ajay Singh Chaudhary is the executive director of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and a core faculty member specializing in social and political theory. He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics. He has written for The Guardian, ... Read more
Plymouth Court Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 11am Jeanie Chung is a writer in Chicago. She is working, very slowly, on a YA novel.
North Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 10am Tracy Clark is the author of the Cass Raines Chicago Mystery and Detective Harriet Foster series. She is a multi-nominated Anthony, Lefty, Edgar, International Thriller Writers, Macavity, and Shamus Award finalist. Tracy is also the 2020 and 2022 winner of the G.P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award, ... Read more
North Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 3pm Garnett Kilberg Cohen published her fourth book of short stories, Cravings, with the University of Wisconsin Press in October 2023. She has won numerous awards, including the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize, two notable essay citations from Best American Essays, and an Illinois Arts Council fellowship. Her writing has appeared ... Read more
Grace Place Stage (1st floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 1pm Born and raised in Kenya, east Africa, Gregory is a ghostwriter and screenwriter with an interest in stories that explore connections across and between cultures and people.
Center Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 4pm Sarah Conway is an award-winning investigative reporter who won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting for Missing in Chicago; a two-year investigation into how Chicago police handle missing person cases reveals the disproportionate impact on Black women and girls, how police have mistreated family members or delayed ... Read more
North Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 11am Peter Coviello is the author of six books, including Make Yourselves Gods, Tomorrow’s Parties (a 2013 finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies), and Long Players, a memoir selected as one of ARTFORUM’s Ten Best Books of 2018. His newest book, Is There God After Prince?: ... Read more
North Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 3pm Avery Cunningham is a resident of Memphis, TN and a 2016 graduate of DePaul University’s Master of Arts in Writing and Publishing program. She has over a decade of editorial experience with various literary magazines, small presses, and best-selling authors. She aspires to tell the stories of complex ... Read more
Center Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 10am Kerry is very excited to be a part of the Printer's Row event with Broadway Dropouts.
Grace Place Stage (2nd floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 1pm Claudia Dey’s most recent novel, Daughter, was an instant national bestseller, shortlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, named a New York Times Fall Fiction pick, an Elle Magazine Book of the Year, and a Globe and Mail Best Book. Heartbreaker, Dey’s second novel, ... Read more
Center Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 12pm For over 30 years, Patricia Carlos Dominguez has written and produced original works of children's theater, She has also published three children's books and presented them in museums, schools, and festivals in Mexico City and Chicago. She has a BA in Romance Languages from the University of Illinois ... Read more
Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 1:30pm Rita Dove, former US Poet Laureate and 1987 Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry, received the National Humanities Medal from President Clinton and the National Medal of Arts from President Obama. Her most recent honors include the 2023 Honorary National Book Award, a 2022 Ruth ... Read more
Plymouth Court Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 11am David Ellis is a judge and an Edgar Award-winning author of ten novels of crime fiction, as well as eight bestselling books co-authored with James Patterson. His novels have been translated into more than ten languages worldwide. In December 2014, Dave was sworn in as the youngest-serving ... Read more
Plymouth Court Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 3pm Monica Eng is an award-winning Chicago writer who reports at Axios Chicago. Over the past three decades she has served as a reporter and editor at the Chicago Sun Times, Chicago Tribune and WBEZ. Her book Made in Chicago co-written with David Hammond documents the city's tastiest ... Read more
Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 11am Joan Esposito hosts the liberal political radio talk show, Joan Esposito Live, Local, and Progressive on WCPT AM 820/Heartland Signal Monday through Friday. She spent 20 years as a news anchor in Chicago at WGN, ABC, and NBC.