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SUMMARY:Joan Esposito
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 11am \n \nJoan 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.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/joan-esposito/
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SUMMARY:Monica E Eng
DESCRIPTION:Plymouth Court Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 3pm \n \nMonica 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 home grown treats.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/monica-e-eng/
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SUMMARY:David Ellis
DESCRIPTION:Plymouth Court Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 11am \n \nDavid 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 Justice of the Illinois Appellate Court for the First District. He lives outside Chicago with his wife and three children.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/david-ellis/
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SUMMARY:Rita Dove
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 1:30pm \n \nRita 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 Lilly Poetry Prize and the 2019 Wallace Stevens Award\, and her most recent books are Playlist for the Apocalypse and Collected Poems 1974-2004. The song cycle A Standing Witness\, with composer Richard Danielpour\, premiered recently at the University of Chicago\, Tanglewood\, and the Kennedy Center. Rita Dove teaches creative writing at the University of Virginia.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/rita-dove/
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SUMMARY:Patricia Carlos Dominguez
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 12pm \n \nFor 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 at Chicago and an MA in Spanish Literature from Roosevelt University.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/patricia-carlos-dominguez/
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SUMMARY:Claudia Dey
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place Stage (2nd floor)\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 1pm \n \nClaudia 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\, was a Trillium Book Award finalist\, named a Best Book by multiple publications\, and is currently being adapted for television. Dey has worked as a horror film actress and a guest artist at the National Theatre School. Her interviews and essays have appeared in The Paris Review\, Vogue\, McSweeney’s\, Lit Hub\, The Believer\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/claudia-dey/
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SUMMARY:Kerry Daimid
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 10am \n \nKerry is very excited to be a part of the Printer’s Row event with Broadway Dropouts.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/kerry-daimid/
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SUMMARY:Avery Cunningham
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 3pm \n \nAvery 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 characters fighting for their right to exist at the fringes of history. When not writing\, Avery is adventuring with her Bernese Mountain Dog\, Grizzly\, and wading waist-deep in research for her next novel. The Mayor of Maxwell Street is her debut novel.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/avery-cunningham/
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SUMMARY:Peter Coviello
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 11am \n \nPeter 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?: Dispatches from an Age of Last Things\, was selected as a “Most Anticipated” title by both The Millions and Lambda Literary Review\, and appeared in year-end lists for 2023 from the Chicago Tribune\, Seminary Co-op Bookstore\, and elsewhere. He taught at Bowdoin College and is professor and head of English at UIC.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/peter-coviello/
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SUMMARY:Sarah Conway
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 4pm \n \nSarah 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 cases\, and how poor police data is making the problem harder to solve. She is a senior reporter and special projects manager at City Bureau\, a nonprofit journalism lab that is reimagining local media.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/sarah-conway/
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SUMMARY:Gregory Collins
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place Stage (1st floor)\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 1pm \n \nBorn 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.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/gregory-collins/
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SUMMARY:Garnett Kilberg Cohen
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 3pm \n \nGarnett 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 in The New Yorker online\, Story Quarterly\, Black Warrior Review\, The Gettysburg Review\, december magazine\, Rumpus\, Memoir Magazine\, TriQuarterly\, The Literary Review and elsewhere. Garnett is the Review Editor at Another Chicago Magazine and Professor Emerita at Columbia College Chicago.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/garnett-kilberg-cohen/
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SUMMARY:Tracy Clark
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 10am \n \nTracy 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\, the 2022 Sara Paretsky Award\, and the 2024 Lefty Award for Best Mystery Novel. She is a member of Crime Writers of Color\, Rogue Women Writers\, Mystery Writers of America\, Sisters in Crime and sits on the boards of Bouchercon National and the Midwest Mystery Conference.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/tracy-clark/
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SUMMARY:Jeanie Chung
DESCRIPTION:Plymouth Court Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 11am \n \nJeanie Chung is a writer in Chicago. She is working\, very slowly\, on a YA novel.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/jeanie-chung/
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SUMMARY:Ajay Singh Chaudhary
DESCRIPTION:Plymouth Court Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 3pm \n \nAjay 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\, The Nation\, The Baffler\, n+1\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, Quartz\, Social Text\, Dialectical Anthropology\, The Hedgehog Review\, Filmmaker Magazine\, and 3quarksdaily\, among other venues. Ajay’s book on the politics of climate change\, The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World\, is now available.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/ajay-singh-chaudhary/
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SUMMARY:Paula Carter
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place Stage (1st floor)\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 12pm \n \nPaula 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 elsewhere. She was an Administrative Staff Fellow at the Bread Loaf Environmental Conference in 2022 and 2023\, and her work has been supported by Ragdale and the Shannaghe Artists Residency. She holds an M.F.A. from Indiana University\, Bloomington\, and teaches creative writing at Northwestern University.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/paula-carter/
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SUMMARY:Rev. Amity Carrubba
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place Stage (2nd floor)\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 11am \n \nThe 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. Before being called to Grace\, she served in three other Chicago-area churches and directed a national Episcopal nonprofit. Passionate about social justice and community engagement\, the Rev. Amity has been making her presence felt in Printers Row and the South Loop since her arrival at Grace in August 2016.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/rev-amity-carrubba/
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SUMMARY:Bonnie Jo Campbell
DESCRIPTION:Plymouth Court Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 2pm \n \nBonnie 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 and the National Book Critic’s Circle Award. Her other works include Mothers\, Tell Your Daughters\, Women & Other Animals\, and Q Road\, and she has earned The Grace Paley Award\, the Eudora Welty Prize\, and the Mark Twain Award\, and a Pushcart Prize. She is a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow. She lives in Kalamazoo\, Michigan.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/bonnie-jo-campbell/
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SUMMARY:Susanna Calkins
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 10am \n \nSusanna 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 the Lefty awards\, and she received the Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award (Macavity). A Philadelphia transplant\, she lives in the Chicago area now\, with her husband and two sons. Check out her website at www.susannacalkins.com.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/susanna-calkins/
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SUMMARY:Eiren Caffall
DESCRIPTION:Plymouth Court Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 12pm \n \nEiren 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 Nonfiction\, a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship\, and residencies at the Banff Centre\, Millay Colony\, Hedgebrook\, and Ragdale. Her memoir The Mourner’s Bestiary is forthcoming from Row House Publishing in October 2024\, and her novel All the Water in the World is forthcoming from St. Martin’s Press in January 2025.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/eiren-caffall/
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SUMMARY:Gerald Butters
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 1pm \nGerald 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 year by Wayne State University Press.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/gerald-butters/
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SUMMARY:Nancy Burke
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 5pm \n \nNancy 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 has won numerous awards and was recently short-listed for the Dobler\, Letter Review\, and Schaffner prizes\, Her first novel\, Undergrowth\, was published by Gibson House Press; her second novel\, The Box\, is currently in search of a home. She maintains a private practice of psychotherapy\, psychoanalysis\, and consultation in Evanston\, IL.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/nancy-burke/
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SUMMARY:Michael Burke
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 11am \n \nMichael 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.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/michael-burke/
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SUMMARY:Gayle Brandeis
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 3pm \n \nGayle 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 Nonfiction Prize. She and her husband recently opened Secret World Books in Highland Park. She attended the very first Printers Row Lit Fest as a teenager\, and is thrilled to be appearing this year as a writer\, teacher\, and bookseller.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/gayle-brandeis/
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SUMMARY:Nora Brooks Blakely
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 4pm \n \nNora 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 Annie Allen\, the book that made Gwendolyn Brooks the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize. A playwright for young audiences for many years\, Nora released her first picture book\, Moyenda and The Golden Heart (a Kwanzaa origin tale) and is hard at work on her next one.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/nora-brooks-blakely/
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SUMMARY:Kathleen Blackburn
DESCRIPTION:Plymouth Court Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 12pm \n \nKathleen Blackburn is the author of the memoir Loose of Earth. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, Texas Observer\, Belt\, Guernica\, Gulf Coast\, River Teeth\, and elsewhere. She earned an MFA from the Ohio State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is an Assistant Professor of English at SUNY New Paltz.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/kathleen-blackburn/
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SUMMARY:R. Derek Black
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place Stage (2nd floor)\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 11am \n \nDerek Black is a doctoral student in history at the University of Chicago. Since 2016\, they have spoken to many audiences at universities\, foundations\, institutions\, museums\, synagogues\, and churches. They were honored with the first Elie Wiesel Award\, given by the Wiesel family after the Nobel Peace Laureate’s passing\, and also received a humanitarian award from the Anti-Defamation League. The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism is their first book.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/r-derek-black/
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SUMMARY:Juneau Black
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\nSunday\, Sept. 8th at 5pm \n \nSharon Nagel is one half of the writing duo that is Juneau Black. She is a public librarian and a cat mom in Milwaukee\, Wisconsin. She is fond of mysteries\, coffee\, and cheese.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/juneau-black/
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SUMMARY:Mitchell Bisschop
DESCRIPTION:Plymouth Court Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 12pm \n \nMitchell Bisschop is a seasoned theatre artist and playwright from Los Angeles with over 20 years of experience in theatre\, sketch\, and improv (Second City\, Annoyance\, UCB\, and The PIT). His past solo work has garnered two Encore Awards and two Fringe Award nominations for best solo show\, as well as successful runs in Los Angeles theaters. He is known for his previous solo works: I Can Hear You Now and Pit of Goblins. His career spans stages in Chicago (Over the Tavern\, Mercury Theater Chicago)\, New York\, and Los Angeles.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/mitchell-bisschop/
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SUMMARY:Ximena N. Beltran Quan Kiu
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\nSaturday\, Sept. 7th at 1pm \n \nXimena N. Beltran Quan Kiu writes to explore her identity as an immigrant raised by a single mother. Born in Mexico City\, raised in Chicago\, she has more than 200 bylines in publications such as The New York Times\, CNN\, Food & Wine\, and Harper’s Bazaar. Journalist Elizabeth Quan Kiu V.\, her mom\, inspires her work. Ximena is a Mexican-Chinese immigrant who is bicultural and fluent in Spanish. She splits her time between Chicago\, Albuquerque\, and Mexico City.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/ximena-n-beltran-quan-kiu/
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