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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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SUMMARY:Bill Adair
DESCRIPTION:Bill Adair is an award-winning journalist\, the author of two books and a global leader in political fact-checking. He is the creator of PolitiFact and the co-founder of the International Fact-Checking Network. He serves as the Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University. His awards include the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (with the PolitiFact staff)\, the Manship Prize for New Media in Democratic Discourse\, and the Everett Dirksen Award for Distinguished Coverage of Congress. He is the author\, most recently\, of Beyond the Big Lie.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/bill-adair/
LOCATION:Plymouth Court Stage\, On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth CT.
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SUMMARY:Barbara McQuade
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n4pm CT – Plymouth Court Stage \n \nBarbara McQuade is a professor at the University of Michigan Law School\, a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC\, and a co-host of the podcast #SistersInLaw. From 2010 to 2017\, McQuade served as U.S Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. Ms. McQuade was appointed by President Barack Obama\, and was the first woman to serve in her position. Earlier in her career\, she worked as a sports writer and copy editor\, a judicial law clerk\, an associate in private practice\, and an assistant U.S. attorney. She and her husband have four children and live in Ann Arbor.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/barbara-mcquade/
LOCATION:Plymouth Court Stage\, On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth CT.
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SUMMARY:Anne K. Ream
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n4pm CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n \nAnne K. Ream is a Chicago-based writer and the founder of Center for Story & Witness (formerly The Voices & Faces Project)\, a global testimonial writing program which seeks to share stories that bear witness to social injustices. The author of Lived Through This: Listening the Stories of Sexual Violence Survivors\, Anne’s writing has appeared in The Washington Post\, The New Republic\, the Los Angeles Times\, and other publications. The recipient of numerous awards\, Anne was named one of People Magazine’s “Heroes Among Us\,” and the Chicago Tribune’s “Top 40\,” in recognition for her work using story to create social and political change.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/anne-k-ream/
LOCATION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage
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SUMMARY:Alex Wells Shapiro
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n4pm CT – Center Stage \n \nAlex Wells Shapiro (he/him) is a poet and organizer from the Hudson Valley\, living in Chicago. He serves as Poetry Editor for Another Chicago Magazine\, and co-curates Exhibit B: A Literary Variety Show. He is the author of a full length collection of poems\, Insect Architecture (Unbound Edition 2022)\, and a chapbook\, Gridiron Fables (Bottlecap Features 2022).
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/alex-wells-shapiro/
LOCATION:Center Stage\, 632 S. Dearborn Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60605\, United States
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SUMMARY:Scott Carlson
DESCRIPTION:Scott Carlson is a senior writer for The Chronicle of Higher Education\, where he has written about the culture and business of college\, the relationship between campuses and communities\, and the journeys of students through the system since 1999. He is also the writer of The Edge\, The Chronicle’s column about innovation and ideas in the higher-education sector. He has written for many magazines and newspapers over the years\, including the Baltimore Sun\, the Star Tribune\, and Dwell. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/scott-carlson/
LOCATION:Grace Place\, 637 S. Dearborn St.\, Chicago\, 60605
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SUMMARY:SaShay Butler
DESCRIPTION:SaShay Butler\, M.Ed (she/they) is an interdisciplinary youth-development professional. They hold a Master’s in Youth Development from UIC. SaShay’s lived experiences as a First-Generation and/or Lower-Income (FGLI) undergraduate student from rural South Carolina sparked her commitment to servant leadership and helping folks reach their ideal version of success. As an Assistant Director of Student Enrichment Services at Northwestern University\, SaShay supports FGLI students\, international and LGBTQIA+ students. Before this\, she worked for various nonprofits as an AmeriCorps VISTA\, adult educator\, workshop facilitator and program manager working at the intersection of social justice\, mental health\, advocacy and creative arts. \nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sashay-butler-m-ed-6431775a/
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/sashay-butler/
LOCATION:Grace Place\, 637 S. Dearborn St.\, Chicago\, 60605
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SUMMARY:Tracy Brown
DESCRIPTION:Tracy Brown is Chief Partnership Officer at Chicago Public Media\, where she has strategic oversight in building key partnerships with local and national newsrooms\, corporate and community organizations\, as well as cultivating new relationships with supporters of independent journalism. \nTracy joined WBEZ in 2019 as managing editor to lead enterprise\, investigations\, daily news and special projects. In 2021\, she became Chief Content Officer\, overseeing the newsrooms at WBEZ and The Chicago Sun-Times\, along with broadcast programming\, WBEZ’s talk show Reset\, podcasts\, community engagement/events\, audience development and Chicago’s urban alternative music station Vocalo.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/tracy-brown/
LOCATION:Plymouth Court Stage\, On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth CT.
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SUMMARY:Lucie Frost
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n3pm CT – North Stage \n \nLucie is a no-longer-practicing lawyer and the author of How the Hell Did I Not Know That? My Midlife Year from Couch to Curiosity (Trinity University Press\, August 2025). \nShe has written humor and satire for NextTribe\, Slackjaw\, The Belladonna\, Points in Case\, Emrys Journal\, and others. She is active on social media\, with 100k+ engaged followers across various platforms. \nShe lives in Central Texas with her three needy\, delightful dogs.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/lucie-frost/
LOCATION:North Stage\, On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr
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SUMMARY:Dr. Sunita Sah
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n3pm CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n \nSunita is a bestselling author\, an award-winning Cornell professor\, and an expert in organizational psychology. She leads groundbreaking research on influence\, authority\, compliance\, and defiance. A trained physician\, she practiced medicine in the UK and worked as a management consultant for the pharmaceutical industry. She teaches executives\, leaders\, and students in healthcare and business. Dr. Sah is a sought-after international speaker and consultant\, advisor to government agencies\, and former Commissioner of the National Commission on Forensic Science. Her research is widely published in leading academic journals and media including The New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, Harvard Business Review\, and Scientific American.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/dr-sunita-sah/
LOCATION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage
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SUMMARY:Carlo Rotella
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n3pm CT – Grace Place Stage \n \nCarlo Rotella’s new book is What Can I Get Out of This? Teaching and Learning In a Classroom Full of Skeptics. A professor of English at Boston College and a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine\, he has previously written books about neighborhood\, music\, boxing\, cities\, and other subjects. His work has also appeared in The New Yorker\, Harper’s\, and The Best American Essays.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/carlo-rotella/
LOCATION:Grace Place\, 637 S. Dearborn St.\, Chicago\, 60605
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SUMMARY:Bill Kurtis
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n3pm CT – Center Stage \n \nBill Kurtis is currently the president of Kurtis Productions and the official judge and scorekeeper of NPR’s Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me! He lives in Chicago with his wife\, Donna.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/bill-kurtis/
LOCATION:Center Stage\, 632 S. Dearborn Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60605\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bill Healy
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n3pm CT – Plymouth Court Stage \n \nAn award-winning podcast producer\, Healy co-created You Didn’t See Nothin\, which won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting and a Peabody Award. Healy has worked on stories for NPR\, the BBC and This American Life\, and spent years editing StoryCorps for Chicago’s public radio station\, WBEZ.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/bill-healy-2/
LOCATION:Plymouth Court Stage\, On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth CT.
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SUMMARY:Ben Tanzer
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n3pm CT – North Stage \n \nEmmy-award winner Ben Tanzer’s work includes the story collection Upstate\, the novel Orphans and the essay collections Lost in Space and Be Cool. His recent novel The Missing was released in March 2024 by 7.13 Books and was a Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year finalist in the category of Traditional Fiction and his new book After Hours: Scorsese\, Grief and the Grammar of Cinema\, which Kirkus Reviews calls “A heartfelt if overstuffed tribute to the author’s father and the ameliorative power of art\,” was released by Ig Publishing in May 2025. Ben lives in Chicago with his family.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/ben-tanzer-2/
LOCATION:North Stage\, On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr
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SUMMARY:Andy Jiaming Tang
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n3pm CT – Grace Place Stage \n \nAndy Jiaming Tang is the author of Cinema Love\, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Prize for First Fiction; the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction; and the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction. It was also a finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. He was a 2022-23 Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellow\, and his work appears in AGNI\, Jezebel\, Joyland\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/andy-jiaming-tang/
LOCATION:Grace Place\, 637 S. Dearborn St.\, Chicago\, 60605
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SUMMARY:Amina Gautier
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n3pm CT – Grace Place Stage \n \nAmina Gautier is the author of four short story collections: At-Risk\, Now We Will Be Happy\, The Loss of All Lost Things\, and The Best That You Can Do. More than one hundred of her stories have been published\, appearing in American Short Fiction\, Boston Review\, Callaloo\, Hypertext\, Kenyon Review\, Latino Book Review\, Los Angeles Review\, Southern Review\, and TriQuarterly among other places. She is the recipient of the Blackwell Prize\, the Chicago Public Library Foundation’s 21st Century Award\, the International Latino Book Award\, the Mellon-Flamboyan Foundation Letras Boricuas Fellowship\, and the Pen/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/amina-gautier-2/
LOCATION:Grace Place\, 637 S. Dearborn St.\, Chicago\, 60605
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CREATED:20250904T001507Z
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SUMMARY:Richard Babcock
DESCRIPTION:A native of Woodstock\, Illinois\, Richard Babcock has enjoyed a long career as a novelist and magazine editor\, including 20 years as the editor of Chicago Magazine. His 2012 novel\, Are You Happy Now? was a finalist in fiction with the Society of Midland Authors. His latest novel\, published in July\, is A Small Disturbance on the Far Horizon.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/richard-babcock/
LOCATION:Grace Place\, 637 S. Dearborn St.\, Chicago\, 60605
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CREATED:20250903T231716Z
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SUMMARY:Laurie Woolever
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n2pm CT – Center Stage \n \nLaurie Woolever is a writer and editor. She spent nearly a decade assisting Anthony Bourdain\, with whom she coauthored the cookbook Appetites and World Travel. She’s written about food and travel for The New York Times\, GQ\, Food & Wine\, Lucky Peach\, Saveur\, Dissent\, Roads & Kingdoms\, and others\, and has worked as an editor at Art Culinaire and Wine Spectator. She is also The New York Times bestselling author of Care and Feeding and Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/laurie-woolever/
LOCATION:Center Stage\, 632 S. Dearborn Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60605\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Eig
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n2pm CT – Plymouth Court Stage \n \nJonathan Eig is the author of six books. His most recent book\, King: A Life\, won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for biography.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/jonathan-eig/
LOCATION:Plymouth Court Stage\, On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth CT.
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SUMMARY:Jeff Copeland
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n2pm CT – North Stage \n \nFor nearly 30 years\, Jeff Copeland worked as a show biz hobo\, hopping from one gravy train to the next\, working with legendary entertainers such as Madonna\, Pee-wee Herman\, Garry Shandling\, and Carol Burnett. He was nominated for an Emmy (yay!) and lost (boo!)\, and has enjoyed creating fun\, interesting\, and exciting programs for a variety of networks and studios\, including Sony Pictures\, ABC\, FOX\, Discovery\, A&E\, and HGTV. But ironically\, his most treasured Hollywood experience didn’t involve a major star. It occurred before he had success\, when he was poor\, naive\, and struggling for a break. That’s when he befriended a washed-up\, down-and-out Andy Warhol superstar named Holly Woodlawn\, who was desperate to rekindle her limelight. They were two lost morons with big hopes and big dreams\, so of course\, they teamed up to make a movie\, which was nothing but a disaster. But ironically\, that debacle is what catapulted them into an absurd\, magical whirlwind of chaos and success\, which Jeff writes about in his hilarious new book\, Love You Madly\, Holly Woodlawn (Feral House).
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/jeff-copeland/
LOCATION:North Stage\, On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr
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SUMMARY:Jarrett Neal
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n2pm CT – Grace Place Stage \n \nJarrett Neal is the Writing Center Coordinator at Governors State University. His first book\, What Color Is Your Hoodie?: Essays on Black Gay Identity\, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. He holds a BA in English from Northwestern University\, and MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, and an EdD in Adult and Higher Education from Aurora University. His fiction\, poetry\, essays\, and reviews have appeared in The Chicago Review of Books\, The Gay and Lesbian Review\, Lambda Literary\, The Write Launch\, Lit Break\, Newcity and many other periodicals.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/jarrett-neal-2/
LOCATION:Grace Place\, 637 S. Dearborn St.\, Chicago\, 60605
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250906T150000
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CREATED:20250829T215543Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250904T041427Z
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SUMMARY:Eileen Favorite
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n2pm CT – Grace Place Stage \n \nEileen Favorite’s first novel\, The Heroines (Scribner)\, has been translated into five languages. Her essays\, poems\, and stories have appeared in The Chicago Tribune\, The Rumpus\, Triquarterly\, The Toast\, The Chicago Reader\, Diagram\, and others. She’s received fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council for poetry\, fiction\, and nonfiction. Her lectures and opinions on the subject “Love the Art\, Hate the Artist” have been featured in the Chicago Tribune\, TEDx Wrigleyville\, The Wall Street Journal\, WGN Chicago\, WBEZ\, and The New Yorker. She teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/eileen-favorite-2/
LOCATION:Grace Place\, 637 S. Dearborn St.\, Chicago\, 60605
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SUMMARY:Dr. Edda Fields-Black
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n2pm CT – Plymouth Court Stage \n \nDr. Edda L. Fields-Black is author of COMBEE: Harriet Tubman\, the Combahee River Raid\, and Black Freedom during the Civil War\, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History and 2025 Lincoln Prize. COMBEE details Harriet Tubman’s daring Civil War service as a spy for the US Army and her leadership in a raid that liberated 756 enslaved people\, the largest slave rebellion in US history. COMBEE brings to life the untold stories of the COMBEE freedom seekers and lasting impact of Tubman’s heroism. Fields-Black is a Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University and Director of the Humanities Center.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/dr-edda-fields-black/
LOCATION:Plymouth Court Stage\, On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth CT.
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SUMMARY:Chef Curtis Duffy
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n2pm CT – Center Stage \n \nCurtis Duffy is a Michelin-starred chef and co-owner of Ever and After in Chicago. He built his career at top restaurants like Charlie Trotter’s\, Alinea\, and Avenues before opening Grace in 2012\, which consistently earned three Michelin stars before closing in 2017. His story was featured in the 2015 documentary For Grace. In 2020\, Duffy opened Ever\, earning two Michelin stars each year since it’s opening\, followed by After\, named one of Esquire’s Best Bars of 2023. A James Beard Award-winner\, he has appeared on Top Chef\, Iron Chef\, The Bear\, and released his first book Fireproof in 2025.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/chef-curtis-duffy/
LOCATION:Center Stage\, 632 S. Dearborn Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60605\, United States
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SUMMARY:Emily Hooper Lansana
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n1:30pm CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n \nEmily is a storyteller who creatively curates spaces for stories to be experienced in community. For over thirty years\, she has performed and led projects in diverse venues locally and nationally including the Mississippi Museum of Art\, the Art Institute of Chicago\, National Storytelling Festival\, and the National Association of Black Storytellers Festival. She has received numerous honors including from: 3Arts\, and the Illinois Arts Council. An award-winning educator\, she has taught in numerous community organizations and universities. She serves as the Senior Director of Programming and Engagement at the Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/emily-hooper-lansana/
LOCATION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage
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SUMMARY:billy lombardo
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n1:30pm CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n \nbilly lombardo is the author of The Logic of a Rose: Chicago Stories\, The Man with Two Arms\, Morning Will Come\, and Meanwhile\, Roxy Mourns. A Nelson Algren award winner\, billy is the founder of Polyphony Lit\, a student-run literary magazine for high school writers and editors. He teaches high school in River Forest and a fiction writing workshop for Northwestern University’s MFA in Prose and Poetry and MA in Writing programs. There’s no real gauge for this measurement\, but he may be the best college essay coach in the world. His most recent book is The C.A.P.E. Crusade: Your Guide to a Great College Application Personal Essay.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/billy-lombardo/
LOCATION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage
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