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 ... 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). ... Read more

North Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 5pm Gina Frangello is the author of six books, most recently Elena Ferrante: The Neapolitan Novels and Blow Your House Down: A Story of ... 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 ... 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 ... Read more

Grace Place Stage (2nd floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 12pm Dr. Amina Gautier is the author of four award-winning short story collections: At-Risk, Now We Will Be Happy, The Loss ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... Read more

North Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 2pm April Gibson is a poet, writer, and professor whose work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. April is a ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... Read more

Center Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 2pm Bill Healy has produced two award-winning podcasts with the Invisible Institute: You Didn’t See Nothin, which won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Audio ... 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 ... 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 ... Read more

North Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 11am Faylita Hicks is a queer Afro-Latinx multidisciplinary artist, writer, hoodoo practitioner, and cultural strategist advocating for people directly impacted by the carceral system. ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... Read more