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SUMMARY:LaTanya Lane
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n11am CT – North Stage \n \nLaTanya Lane (she/her) is a writer and performer. She is a company member with 2nd Story\, a two-time alum of the Voices of Our Nations Arts writers’ workshop\, and winner of the 2018 Diverse Worlds Grant from the Speculative Literature Foundation. You can learn more about LaTanya and her work at www.latanyalane.com.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/latanya-lane-2/
LOCATION:North Stage\, On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr
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SUMMARY:Juan Martinez
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n11am CT – Plymouth Court Stage \n \nJuan Martinez is the author of the novel Extended Stay (Camino del Sol/University of Arizona Press\, 2023) and the story collection Best Worst American (Small Beer Press\, 2017). He lives near Chicago and is an associate professor at Northwestern University. His work has appeared most recently in EPOCH\, Ploughshares\, The Believer\, the Chicago Quarterly Review\, The Sunday Morning Transport\, Huizache\, Ecotone\, NIGHTMARE\, McSweeney’s\, NPR’s Selected Shorts\, Small Odysseys\, Shenandoah\, TriQuarterly\, Sudden Fiction Latino\, Flash Fiction America\, and elsewhere\, and is forthcoming in the Latinx horror anthology Ghosts Of Where We Are From.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/juan-martinez-2/
LOCATION:Plymouth Court Stage\, On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth CT.
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SUMMARY:Jacob Grant
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n11pm CT – Center Stage \n \nJacob Grant is an author\, illustrator\, and Dad who makes picture books. He is a winner of the prestigious Bologna Children’s Book Fair Illustration Exhibition\, and he’s also an ok kids soccer coach. Jacob lives with his family in Oak Park\, Illinois\, where he can be found writing and illustrating books like Umami\, No Fair\, No Pants\, and Bear’s Scare\, among other stories for children.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/jacob-grant/
LOCATION:Center Stage\, 632 S. Dearborn Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60605\, United States
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SUMMARY:J.R. Dawson
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n11am CT – North Stage \n \nJ.R. Dawson (she/they) is the Golden Crown award-winning author of The First Bright Thing. They have had shorter works in places such as Fantasy & Science Fiction\, Lightspeed\, and Uncanny. Dawson currently lives on Dakota land in Minnesota with her loving wife. She teaches at Drexel University’s MFA program for creative writing\, and fills her free time with keeping her three chaotic dogs out of trouble. Her next book\, The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World\, releases from Tor in the summer of 2025.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/j-r-dawson/
LOCATION:North Stage\, On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr
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SUMMARY:Eiren Caffall
DESCRIPTION:Eiren Caffall is an author and musician. Her writing\, music\, and film on loss and nature has appeared in many places and received awards\, including a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant and a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship. Her books include her memoir The Mourner’s Bestiary and her novel All the Water in the World.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/eiren-caffall-2/
LOCATION:Plymouth Court Stage\, On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth CT.
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SUMMARY:Danielle Moore
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n11am CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n \nDanielle Moore is a Chicago-based bookseller\, curator\, and creative entrepreneur turning pages into power. She’s the founder of Semicolon Bookstore and a champion of Black stories\, beautiful spaces\, and bold ideas—from book cafés to whiskey brands. Wherever art and impact meet\, Danielle is probably building something brilliant (and bookish) there.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/danielle-moore/
LOCATION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage
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SUMMARY:Jen Cullerton Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n10:30am CT – Center Stage \n \nJen Cullerton Johnson is a Chicago-based children’s author\, educator\, and environmental advocate. She wrote Seeds of Change\, a Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award–winning biography of Wangari Maathai\, and co-authored The Green Literacy Handbook\, a K–5 resource that integrates environmental education with literacy and SEL. Jen holds an MFA in Creative Writing and an MEd in Curriculum Development. She teaches in Chicago Public Schools and is an adjunct writing professor at Wright College. As co-founder of Green Literacy\, she leads workshops and programs that empower young people to think critically\, read deeply\, and act for a more sustainable world.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/jen-cullerton-johnson/
LOCATION:Center Stage\, 632 S. Dearborn Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60605\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tim Chapman
DESCRIPTION:Tim Chapman is a former forensic scientist for the Chicago Police Department and writing instructor at Malcolm X College. He holds a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from Northwestern University. 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. His short stories have been collected under the title Kiddieland and other misfortunes. He is the author of the Sean McKinney novels A Trace of Gold and The Blue Silence. He also edits the journal Litbop: Art and Literature in the Groove.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/tim-chapman/
LOCATION:North Stage\, On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr
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SUMMARY:Melissa Bell
DESCRIPTION:Melissa Bell joined Chicago Public Media as CEO in September 2024. Melissa is the former co-founder of Vox.com\, the leader in explainer journalism. She also served as the publisher of Vox Media\, which includes such publications as Eater\, The Verge\, SB Nation. Melissa played a critical role in shepherding Vox Media’s merger with New York Magazine and its premium brands\, including Vulture\, The Cut\, and The Strategist. Most recently\, Melissa was a visiting fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/melissa-bell/
LOCATION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage
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SUMMARY:Juan Carlos Reyes
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n10am CT – Plymouth Court Stage \n \nJuan Carlos Reyes’s debut fiction collection Three Alarm Fire (Hinton Publishing\, 2024) was selected for the KUOW/NPR January Book Club and was featured in PEN America’s PEN Ten series. Reyes has been the recipient of the WA State Artist Trust Award\, a PEN USA Emerging Voices Fellowship\, and a Jack Straw Writers Fellowship\, among others. His short stories\, poems\, and essays have appeared in Florida Review\, Waccamaw Journal\, and Hawai’i Review\, among others. He is a former board president for UNESCO Seattle City of Literature\, and now teaches as an Associate Professor of creative writing at Seattle University.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/juan-carlos-reyes/
LOCATION:Plymouth Court Stage\, On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth CT.
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SUMMARY:Joseph Worthen
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n10am CT – North Stage \n \nJoseph Worthen is a writer from South Carolina. His debut novel\, All Trap No Bait\, came out with Chicago’s Tortoise Books this summer. All Trap No Bait\, follows Beverly Ornett as she is blackmailed during Coronavirus summer by a member of her degenerate online poetry group.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/joseph-worthen/
LOCATION:North Stage\, On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr
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SUMMARY:Annell López
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n10am CT – Plymouth Court Stage \n \nAnnell López is the winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize and the author of I’ll Give You a Reason\, a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for best debut short story collection. Named a best collection of 2024 by Electric Literature\, I’ll Give You a Reason has been longlisted for the Maya Angelou Book Award and the Clark Fiction Prize. López’s work has appeared in Guernica\, American Short Fiction\, The Common\, and TIME. López received her MFA from the University of New Orleans\, where she was awarded the Joanna Leake Prize. She is working on a novel.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/annell-lopez/
LOCATION:Plymouth Court Stage\, On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth CT.
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SUMMARY:Allison Epstein
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n10am CT – North Stage \n \nAllison Epstein earned her MFA in fiction from Northwestern University and a BA in creative writing from the University of Michigan. A Michigan native\, she now lives in Chicago\, where she enjoys good theater\, bad puns\, and fancy jackets. She is the author of historical novels including A Tip for the Hangman\, Let the Dead Bury the Dead\, and Fagin the Thief.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/allison-epstein/
LOCATION:North Stage\, On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr
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SUMMARY:Alex Willan
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n10am CT – Center Stage \n \nAlex Willan grew up in Louisville\, Kentucky\, where he was seldom seen without his sketchbook in hand. His love of drawing led him to earn a BFA in illustration from Savannah College of Art and Design. Alex has exhibited in art galleries and has painted murals\, theater sets\, and squirmy kids’ faces\, but his true love has always been children’s books. \nAlex is represented by LK Literary Agency\, Chicago. \nHe lives in Chicago with his dog\, Harley.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/alex-willan/
LOCATION:Center Stage\, 632 S. Dearborn Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60605\, United States
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SUMMARY:Write Club Chicago
DESCRIPTION:For over a decade and a half\, Write Club has followed its mission to entertain the thundering masses with our unique brand of unrelenting bloodsport for the brain. We’ve summoned all kinds of contenders to our arena\, including nationally acclaimed authors\, rising-star comedians\, and an ever-growing cavalcade of wild-card performance artists\, playwrights\, poets\, journalists\, activists\, and raconteurs. Every bout is a unique and original experience\, every artist walks away with cash in the bank\, and every champion drinks deeply from the Loving Cup of Deathless Fucking Glory.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/write-club-chicago/
LOCATION:Center Stage\, 632 S. Dearborn Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60605\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sydney Charles
DESCRIPTION:Sydney Charles is a South Side–born multidisciplinary artist\, director\, and performer\, and a 2025 Newcity Hall of Fame inductee. She has performed with Steppenwolf\, Goodman\, Drury Lane\, Victory Gardens\, Northlight\, Lookingglass\, and Court Theatre. Her directing work spans Jackalope\, Steppenwolf\, WildClaw\, and OTV/Honey Pot. She associate directed Hamlet (Make-Believe Association) and starred in Lake Song (Tribeca Audio Premieres). On screen: The Chi\, South Side\, Shameless. She is a 3x Write Club champion\, blending storytelling with fire and precision. Sydney is a proud member of AEA\, SAG-AFTRA\, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority\, Inc.\nsydneycharlesexp.com
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/sydney-charles/
LOCATION:Center Stage\, 632 S. Dearborn Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60605\, United States
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SUMMARY:Giano Cromley
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n5pm CT – North Stage \n \nBorn and raised in Montana\, Giano Cromley is the author of the novel American Mythology. He has also written two young adult novels\, The Last Good Halloween and The Prince of Infinite Space\, and a collection of short stories\, What We Build Upon the Ruins. He is a recipient of an Artist Fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council and was a BookEnds Fellow with Stony Brook University. He is an amateur woodworker\, a certified wildlife tracker\, and an English professor at Kennedy-King College\, where he is chair of the Communications Department. He lives on the Southside of Chicago with his wife and two dogs.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/giano-cromley-2/
LOCATION:North Stage\, On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr
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SUMMARY:Gerald Butters Jr.
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n5pm CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n \nGerald Butters is Professor of History at Aurora University and he teaches in the Masters of Liberal Studies program at Northwestern University. The author of four books\, in 2026 he will publish Censoring the City: Chicago\, Morality and the Politics of Cinema.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/gerald-butters-jr/
LOCATION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage
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SUMMARY:Em Modaff
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n5pm CT – Center Stage \n \nEm Modaff is an actor\, musician\, and tarot reader based in Chicago. You can see them on both screen and stage as well as listen to their band Mozey’s angsty music wherever you stream your tunes. Em is a 2-time Write Club champion and is terrified to compete against Bear Bellinger.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/em-modaff/
LOCATION:Center Stage\, 632 S. Dearborn Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60605\, United States
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SUMMARY:Colin McMahon
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n5pm CT – Plymouth Court Stage \n \nColin McMahon is a seasoned journalist and visionary news media executive. A former editor-in-chief of Chicago Tribune and longtime foreign correspondent\, Colin now serves as a coach and consultant for media startups and publishers across the world. He specializes in helping nonprofit news organizations expand their audiences and reach financial sustainability.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/colin-mcmahon/
LOCATION:Plymouth Court Stage\, On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth CT.
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SUMMARY:Bear Bellinger
DESCRIPTION:Bear is an actor\, writer\, performer\, and socio-political loudmouth. He has performed with Teatro Vista\, The Goodman\, Court\, The Fly Honeys\, and Timeline\, among others. His writing has been featured in Windy City Times\, Vox\, Stage & Candor\, and Rescripted. A proud union member of AEA and WBNG\, find him working toward a more inclusive\, equitable\, and anti-racist society. Free Palestine. And\, as always #BLM
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/bear-bellinger/
LOCATION:Center Stage\, 632 S. Dearborn Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60605\, United States
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SUMMARY:Azziza Robinson
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n5pm CT – Center Stage \n \nAzziza Robinson is a Chicago based writer\, storyteller\, and avid exaggerator. She is most known for mining her youth within an inch of its life and attempting to balance her passion for radical social change with her goal of becoming one of the nation’s topmost knuckleheads. Azziza has performed in storytelling shows across Chicago including Lady Like\, Miss Spoken\, and Write Club.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/azziza-robinson/
LOCATION:Center Stage\, 632 S. Dearborn Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60605\, United States
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SUMMARY:Aymar Jean Escoffery
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n5pm CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n \nAymar Jean Escoffery is the Margaret Walker Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University and 2024-25 Visiting Scholar at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center. He is the author of Open TV: Innovation Beyond Hollywood and the Rise of Web Television (NYU Press\, 2018) and Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal our Culture (MIT Press\, 2025). He co-founded OTV | Open Television\, a platform for intersectional television that has received recognition from the Television Academy (Emmy Awards)\, Webby Awards\, Streamy Awards\, among others. His research has been supported by the NSF\, NIH\, MacArthur Foundation\, and Wallace Foundation\, among others.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/aymar-jean-escoffery/
LOCATION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage
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SUMMARY:Andrea Freeman
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n5pm CT – Plymouth Court Stage \n \nAndrea Freeman is the author of Ruin Their Crops on the Ground\, winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize and James Beard Media Award\, and Skimmed: Breastfeeding\, Race\, and Injustice. She is a Fulbright scholar and Second Century Chair Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School\, where she teaches constitutional law. She has published and appeared in the Washington Post\, Salon\, Guardian\, L.A. Times\, NPR Weekend Edition\, The Takeaway\, Here & Now\, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution\, Black Agenda Report\, and more. She lives in Los Angeles.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/andrea-freeman/
LOCATION:Plymouth Court Stage\, On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth CT.
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SUMMARY:Alfred L. Martin\, Jr.
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n5pm CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n \nAlfred L. Martin\, Jr.\, PhD\, is Associate Professor of Media Studies and Chair of the Department of Cinematic Arts at the University of Miami. He is author of Fandom for Us\, by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences and The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom. He is also editor of Rolling: Blackness and Mediated Comedy and co-editor of The Golden Girls: Tales from the Lanai.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/alfred-l-martin-jr/
LOCATION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage
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SUMMARY:Rob Macaisa Colgate
DESCRIPTION:Rob Macaisa Colgate (he/she/they) is a disabled bakla poet and playwright. A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts and 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow\, he is the author of the poetry collection Hardly Creatures (Tin House\, 2025) and the verse drama My Love is Water (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2025). The managing poetry editor at Foglifter\, he lives on the traditional homelands of the Council of the Three Fires in what is commonly known as Chicago.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/rob-macaisa-colgate/
LOCATION:Center Stage\, 632 S. Dearborn Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60605\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kimberly Ann Priest
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n4pm CT – Center Stage \n \nKimberly Ann Priest is the winner of the 2024 Backwaters Prize in Poetry from the University of Nebraska Press for her book Wolves in Shells\, as well as the author of tether & lung (Texas Review Press) and Slaughter the One Bird (Sundress Publications). An assistant professor in the Department of Writing\, Rhetoric\, and Cultures at Michigan State University\, her work has appeared in Copper Nickel\, Salamander\, and Beloit Poetry Journal.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/kimberly-ann-priest/
LOCATION:Center Stage\, 632 S. Dearborn Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60605\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jake Sheridan
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n4pm CT – Plymouth Court Stage \n \nJake Sheridan is a City Hall reporter for the Chicago Tribune. His work focuses on local policy\, the City Council and Mayor Brandon Johnson. He is a graduate of Duke University and his previous work includes fighting social media misinformation on the Poynter Institute’s MediaWise team and supporting PolitiFact fact-checking in North Carolina politics.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/jake-sheridan/
LOCATION:Plymouth Court Stage\, On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth CT.
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SUMMARY:Grayson Thompson
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n4pm CT – Center Stage \n \nGrayson [he/him] is a Black\, Jamaican-American\, queer transgender cowboy poet and therapist. He won Foglifter Press’ 2024 Start A Riot! Chapbook Prize for Sand Bodied Florida Boy and Write Bloody Publishing’s 2024 Jack McCarthy Book Prize for his debut full-length collection\, A Congregation of Alligators. His work appears in Cathexis Northwest Press\, Foglifter\, Cleaver (nominated for Best of the Net)\, Poetry Online\, and more. He lives in Northern California\, hiking and curating salad recipes by the ocean.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/grayson-thompson/
LOCATION:Center Stage\, 632 S. Dearborn Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60605\, United States
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SUMMARY:CD Eskilson
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n4pm CT – Center Stage \n \nCD Eskilson is a trans nonbinary poet and translator. Their work appears in the Kenyon Review\, The Offing\, Cincinnati Review\, Passages North\, among others\, and they are the poetry co-editor at Split Lip Magazine. They are a recipient of the C.D. Wright / Academy of American Poets Prize and have been nominated for Best of the Net\, Best New Poets\, and the Pushcart Prize. CD’s debut poetry collection\, Scream / Queen\, is now available from Acre Books. Once\, they were in a punk band.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/cd-eskilson/
LOCATION:Center Stage\, 632 S. Dearborn Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60605\, United States
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