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SUMMARY:Tracy Clark
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 2pm \n \nTracy Clark\, a native Chicagoan\, is the award-winning author of the Cass Raines Chicago Mystery series and the Detective Harriet Foster series\, both set in Chicago. 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\, the 2024 Lefty Award for Best Mystery Novel and the 2024 and 2025 Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/tracy-clark/
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SUMMARY:Toni Preckwinkle\, Cook County Board President
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 10am \nCenter Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 11:30 \n \nToni Preckwinkle is the 35th President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners and the first Black woman elected to the office. Since 2010\, she has led efforts to strengthen fiscal responsibility\, transparency\, and government services while restoring confidence in County government. President Preckwinkle oversees the nation’s second-largest county government\, including major public health and criminal justice systems. Under her leadership\, Cook County launched CountyCare\, expanded economic development initiatives\, and advanced criminal justice reform and community violence prevention efforts. A former Chicago alderman and history teacher\, she is a lifelong advocate for equity\, opportunity\, and public service.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/toni-preckwinkle-cook-county-board-president/
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SUMMARY:Tisa Bryant
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 5pm \n \nTisa Bryant is the author of Residual\, a nonfiction assemblage of the interiors of grief\, the home as archive\, and the mystery of mothers\, published in 2026 from Nightboat Books. Her first book\, Unexplained Presence\, a collection of hybrid essays on the mythologies of Black presences in film\, literature and visual art\, was reissued by Wave Books in 2024. She is editor of The Deep West Assembly\, a monograph of recent works by visual artist Cauleen Smith. Tisa Bryant is Associate Professor in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa\, and lives in Iowa City.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/tisa-bryant/
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SUMMARY:Timothy J. Hillegonds
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSunday 9/13\, 1pm \n \nTimothy J. Hillegonds is the author of the memoirs And You Will Call It Fate (University of Nebraska Press\, 2026) and The Distance Between (University of Nebraska Press\, 2019)\, a finalist for the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year and the Eric Hoffer Book Award. His work—exploring masculinity\, addiction\, and personal reckoning—has appeared in The Guardian\, LitHub\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, Salon\, The Daily Beast\, Fourth Genre\, River Teeth\, Brevity\, and elsewhere. Hillegonds holds an MA in Writing and Publishing from DePaul University and serves as a contributing editor at Slag Glass City.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/timothy-j-hillegonds/
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SUMMARY:Tim Chapman
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSunday 9/13\, 1pm \n \nTim Chapman is a former forensic scientist for the Chicago Police Department and English teacher at Malcolm X college. His fiction has been published in The Southeast Review\, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine\, and the anthologies\, The Rich and the Dead and Tales of the Fantastic. He is the author of the Sean McKinney novels A Trace of Gold and The Blue Silence and two novels for middle-grade kids: The Outcasts and The Song of the Bees. When he’s not writing he’s editing the journal Litbop: Art and Literature in the Groove\, teaching martial arts\, or painting pretty pictures.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/tim-chapman/
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SUMMARY:The Rev. Amity Carrubba
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place\, 2nd Floor\n(637 S. Dearborn St.)\nSunday 9/13\, 11:30am \n \nThe Rev. Amity grew up in two countries and five states before her family settled in Chicagoland. Trained as a scientist\, she worked in research before taking a leap of faith to serve in the church. Amity went on to study theology at Episcopal Divinity School and was ordained in 2006. She has served three other Chicago-area churches before starting at Grace in August 2016. In her spare time\, she likes to read mysteries and work on her chess game.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/the-rev-amity-carrubba/
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SUMMARY:Teresa Dzieglewicz
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 4:30pm \n \nTeresa Dzieglewicz is a Pushcart-winning poet\, Black Earth Institute Fellow\, a Poet-in-Residence at the Chicago Poetry Center\, and part of the founding team of Mni Wichoni Nakicizin Wounspe (Defenders of the Water School). Her first book of poetry\, Something Small of How to See a River was selected by Tyehimba Jess for the Dorset Prize and is forthcoming from Tupelo Press. Her first children’s book\, co-written with Kimimila Locke\, is forthcoming from Chronicle Books.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/teresa-dzieglewicz/
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SUMMARY:Ted Van Alst
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 4pm \n \nTheodore C. Van Alst Jr. is the author of Chicago-set award-winning story collections Sacred Smokes\, Sacred City\, and Sacred Folks. He is the co-editor of the award-winning\, bestselling Never Whistle at Night from Vintage/Penguin Random House. His debut novel\, The El\, a Chicago Public Library Favorite Book of 2025\, was shortlisted for the Pattis Family Foundation Book Award as well as the Chicago Reader’s Best New Book of 2025\, and won the 2025 Chicago Review of Books Fiction of the Year. His work has appeared in Southwest Review\, Chicago Review\, The Journal of Working-Class Studies\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/ted-van-alst/
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SUMMARY:Taylor Cole Miller\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 1pm \n \nDr. Taylor Cole Miller is an associate professor of media studies at the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse. He is editor of The Golden Girls: Tales from the Lanai and content creator under the handle @tvdoc.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/taylor-cole-miller-phd/
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SUMMARY:Taylor Byas
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 12pm \n \nDr. Taylor Byas\, Ph.D. is a Black Chicago native\, where she edits for multiple publications. Her debut full-length\, I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times from Soft Skull Press\, won the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award\, the 2023 Chicago Review of Books Award in Poetry\, and the 2024 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry. Her second full-length\, Resting Bitch Face (2025)\, was a September 2025 pick for Roxane Gay’s Audacious Book Club\, and was named a Top 5 Poetry Collection of the Year by Electric Literature. She is represented by Noah Grey Rosenzweig at Triangle House Literary.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/taylor-byas/
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SUMMARY:Susanna C Calkins
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 2pm \n \nSusanna Cakins is the award-winning author of the Lucy Campion historical mysteries and the Speakeasy Mysteries (set in 1920s Chicago). She holds a PhD in history and currently works at Rosalind Franklin University in North Chicago.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/susanna-c-calkins/
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SUMMARY:Steve Musgrave
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSunday 9/13\, 11am \n \nSteve Musgrave is an illustrator living in Chicago with his wife Jane and their dog Lily. He has worked with Lurie Children’s Hospital\, The Chicago Public Library and the Lincoln Park Zoo. Steve likes relaxing in his garden and drawing with kids.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/steve-musgrave/
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SUMMARY:Skyler Schrempp
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSunday 9/13\, 4pm \n \nSkyler Schrempp writes historical fiction for young people. Her first novel Three Strike Summer received four starred reviews and was listed on several “best of” lists including Bank Street College of Education’s Best Children’s Books of the Year\, Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best\, and Horn Book Fanfare 2022 Booklist. It was an official Illinois Reads selection\, winner of the Chicago Public Library’s mock Newberry\, a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Awards\, and the recipient of a Judy Lopez Memorial Honor. Skyler received her MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Art.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/skyler-schrempp/
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SUMMARY:Shifa Saltagi Safadi
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSunday 9/13\, 4pm \n \nShifa Saltagi Safadi is the author of Kareem Between and several picture books\, including The Gift of Eid. She has a bachelor’s degree in English literature\, teaches ELA at a local middle school\, and reviews Muslim books on her blog\, Muslim Mommy Blog. Shifa was born in Syria and immigrated to the US with her parents as a young girl. She lives near Chicago with her husband and four children.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/shifa-saltagi-safadi/
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SUMMARY:Shannon Baker
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 3pm \n \nShannon Baker writes about strong women in the West who face down danger\, heartbreak\, and the kind of secrets that don’t stay buried. A Nebraska native with a love for big skies and bigger stories\, she’s been named Writer of the Year twice by Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers and has won the New Mexico/Arizona Book Award. Now a resident of Tucson\, Baker’s Kate Fox series is set in the Nebraska Sandhills where she lived for twenty years. Despite Arizona sunsets\, Baker will always be a Husker. Go Big Red.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/shannon-baker/
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SUMMARY:Scott Turow
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSunday 9/13\, 1pm \n \nScott Turow\, a writer and former practicing lawyer\, is the author of thirteen bestselling works of fiction\, including Presumed Innocent and most recently\, Suspect. Mr. Turow has also published two nonfiction books\, including One L\, about his experience as a law student. His books have been translated into more than forty languages\, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide\, and have been adapted into movies and television projects. He has frequently contributed essays and op-ed pieces to publications such as The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Vanity Fair\, The New Yorker\, and The Atlantic.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/scott-turow/
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SUMMARY:Scott Simon
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSunday 9/13\, 10am \nScreenshot\nScott Simon hosts NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday and Up First\, and is special contributor to CBS News Sunday Morning. A winner of Emmy and Peabody Awards\, he is in the Radio Hall of Fame and the Illinois Lincoln Academy. He lives in Washington\, DC\, with his wife and two daughters.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/scott-simon/
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SUMMARY:Scoop Jackson
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSunday 9/13\, 2pm \n \nRobert SCOOP JACKSON is an author\, journalist\, and columnist with the Chicago Sun-Times. He has also written for ESPN\, SLAM\, XXL\, Nike. He co-authored The Poohprintwith Derrick Rose and Birth of A Culture with Grandmaster Flash.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/scoop-jackson/
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SUMMARY:Sarah Taylor\, World Relief Chicagoland Adult Education
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 2:30pm \n \nSarah Taylor is a leader in adult literacy innovation: advancing trauma-informed approaches that promote healing\, belonging\, and learner success. As Regional Director of Adult Education for World Relief Chicagoland\, she develops and leads English language and workforce education programs that expand access to literacy for adult immigrants and refugees. Drawing on research in neurolinguistics\, learning sciences\, and the cognitive impacts of trauma\, she designs literacy-rich learning environments where adults can build language\, confidence\, and opportunity. Her work is grounded in the belief that adult literacy is a powerful catalyst to promote dignity\, strengthen communities\, and bolster the economy.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/sarah-taylor-world-relief-chicagoland-adult-education/
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SUMMARY:Sarah Karp
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 2:30pm \n \nSarah Karp is a reporter at WBEZ. A former reporter for Catalyst-Chicago\, the Chicago Reporter and the Daily Southtown\, Karp has covered education\, and children and family issues for more than twenty years. She is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She has won numerous national and local awards for her work. She is a native of Chicago.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/sarah-karp/
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SUMMARY:Sarah Edmondson
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 5pm \n \nSarah Edmondson is a Canadian actress and voice-over artist who has starred in multiple TV series and more than a dozen films. Her whistleblower story following her departure from personal and professional development company NXIVM is told in her memoir\, Scarred\, and critically acclaimed HBO documentary series\, The Vow. \nNow based in Atlanta\, Sarah and her co-host/husband Anthony “Nippy” Ames continue the conversation with their podcast A Little Bit Culty and now book of the same name—exploring the healing process with the help of experts\, advocates\, and fellow survivors.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/sarah-edmondson/
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SUMMARY:Sara Levine
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place\, 1st Floor\n(637 S. Dearborn St.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 11am \n \nSara Levine is the author of novels The Hitch and Treasure Island!!! and the short story collection Short Dark Oracles. She earned a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from Brown University and teaches writing at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and on Substack at Delusions of Grammar.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/sara-levine/
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SUMMARY:Sara Connell
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 10am \n \nSara Connell is a 5X bestselling author and the founder of Thought Leader Media where she helps experts write and publish transformational books and become TEDx/Keynote speakers. She has been featured on/in Oprah\, The New York Times\, Forbes\, and TEDx. Her new book The Download; Train Your Brain. Unlock Genius. Create Miracles is out October 6th with Hachette publishing.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/sara-connell/
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SUMMARY:Sandra Santiago
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 4:30pm \n \nSandra Santiago is a second-generation Puerto Rican poet\, educator\, and activist from Chicago. She earned a B.A. in Education from Roosevelt University and an M.Ed. in Bilingual Education and Linguistics from DePaul University. In 2013\, she founded The Butterfly Poetry Project to create a safe\, affirming space for women poets. She is the author of The Rhythm of Everyday Things (2014)\, published by Pandora Lobo Estepario Productions. Her work also appears in Shades of Faith (2012)\, Shades of Ritual (2014)\, North American Folk Magic (2023)\, and Aquarius Witch (2024). She was a guest columnist for The Wild Hunt in 2020.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/sandra-santiago/
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SUMMARY:Sandra Jackson-Opoku
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSunday 9/13\, 1pm \n \nSandra Jackson-Opoku is the author of four award winning and critically-acclaimed novels: The River Where Blood is Born\, Hot Johnny and the Women Who Loved Him\, and mystery novels\, Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes\, and Savvy Summers and the Po’boy Perils. Her fiction\, nonfiction\, and dramatic works are widely published and produced. Professional recognition includes a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, the American Library Association Black Caucus Award\, a Chicago Esteemed Artist Award\, an Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award\, a James Baldwin Fellowship at Macdowell Arts\, the Malice Minotaur Award for First Traditional Mystery Novel\, and others.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/sandra-jackson-opoku/
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SUMMARY:Samantha Hoffman
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSunday 9/13\, 2pm \n \nSamantha Hoffman is a writer\, a reader\, an artist\, film and theatre buff\, world traveler\, and 8-time marathoner. She is the author of What More Could You Wish For (St. Martin’s Press) and the upcoming All She Wanted (Ten/16 Press\, October 2026). \nHer stories have appeared in Chicken Soup for the Dieter’s Soul\, Hypertext Magazine\, TheCorner Magazine in London and other print and online publications. She was named to Newcity’s Lit 50 2025: Who Really Books In Chicago\, and is VP of Chicago Writers Association and Executive Director of Let’s Just Write! Chicago Writers Association Conference.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/samantha-hoffman/
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SUMMARY:Sahar Mustafah
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSunday 9/13\, 5pm \n \nSahar Mustafah is an award-winning Palestinian American author of The Slightest Green\, The Beauty of Your Face\, and Code of the West. Her recent fiction is featured in Stories from the Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction; The View from Gaza published in The Massachusetts Review; and Redline: Chicago Horror Stories. Mustafah writes and teaches outside of Chicago.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/sahar-mustafah/
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SUMMARY:Ruthvika Rao
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place\, 1st Floor\n(637 S. Dearborn St.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 1pm \n \nRuthvika Rao is from Hyderabad\, India. Her debut novel\, The Fertile Earth\, was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize\, the Chautauqua Prize\, the Crossword Book Award\, and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. She has taught creative writing at the University of Iowa and the University of Toronto. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and lives in Michigan.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/ruthvika-rao/
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SUMMARY:Rowan Beaird
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSunday 9/13\, 12pm \n \nRowan Beaird’s first novel\, The Divorcées\, was named a best book by Harper’s Bazaar\, Elle\, People\, The Independent\, and the Chicago Review of Books. Her short fiction has appeared in The Kenyon Review\, The Southern Review\, and The Common\, among others. She is the recipient of the Ploughshares Emerging Writer Award\, and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart. She has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and StoryStudio\, and she currently works at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her second novel\, Tenderness\, will be published in July 2026.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/rowan-beaird/
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SUMMARY:Rocio Franco
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSunday 9/13\, 12pm \n \nRocío Franco is a Chicana poet from Chicago. The Frost Place\, The Watering Hole\, Periplus Collective\, VONA\, Tin House\, StoryStudio\, and the Ragdale Residency have supported her work. She was selected for the 2026 Guild Literary Complex’s 35 Writers to Watch\, a list that honors local writers whose careers represent the future of the literary arts in Chicago. Her poems have appeared in The Acentos Review\, Exposition Review\, Chicago Reader\, Lunch Ticket\, L@tino Literatures Journal\, AGNI\, Mom Egg Review\, The Rumpus\, and others. Her debut chapbook\, Where the Monarchs Never Die\, won the 2025 Arcana Poetry Press Chapbook Contest.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/rocio-franco/
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