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SUMMARY:Neal Allen
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 2pm \n \nNeal Allen cowrote the 2026 New York Times Bestseller Good Writing: 36 Ways to Improve Your Sentences with his wife\, Anne Lamott. A former journalist and corporate executive\, he wrote Better Days: Tame Your Inner Critic (2023) and Shapes of Truth: Discover God Inside You (2021). A coach and amateur gardener\, he lives in Northern California.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/neal-allen/
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SUMMARY:Nathaniel Rich
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place\, 2nd Floor\n(637 S. Dearborn St.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 1pm \n \nNathaniel Rich is the author of Cloudthief; three previous novels\, all New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice selections; and two works of nonfiction: Second Nature and Losing Earth\, a finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. He won the Emily Clark Balch Prize for short fiction and was a two-time finalist for the National Magazine Award for Fiction. Rich is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and frequent contributor to The Atlantic\, Harper’s\, and The New York Review of Books. A 2025 Guggenheim Fellow\, he teaches at Tulane University and lives in New Orleans.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/nathaniel-rich/
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SUMMARY:Natalie Y. Moore
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 10am \n \nNatalie Y. Moore is a Chicago-based journalist and senior lecturer at Northwestern University.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/natalie-y-moore/
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SUMMARY:Nancy Burke
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place\, 1st Floor\n(637 S. Dearborn St.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 10am \n \nNancy Burke is a poet\, fiction writer\, psychoanalyst and psychotherapy activist from Evanston IL. Her work has appeared in After Hours\, Narrative\, Story International\, Sky Island\, Bicoastal Review\, Whitefish Review\, and Alaska Quarterly Review among other literary journals. Her first novel\, Undergrowth\, was published by Gibson House Press in 2017. A second novel\, The Box\, is forthcoming (2027\, Lavender Ink)\, and she has released two CDs of original music through Kernel Sound Emporium/Hey Man Records (Chicago IL).
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/nancy-burke/
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SUMMARY:Naeem Murr
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSunday 9/13\, 5pm \n \nNaeem Murr is the author of four novels: The Boy\, a New York Times Notable Book; The Genius of the Sea; The Perfect Man\, which was awarded The Commonwealth Writersʼ Prize for the Best Book of Europe and South Asia\, and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; and Every Exit Brings You Home\, which was just published by W.W. Norton. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford\, among his awards are a Pushcart Prize\, a Lannan Residency Fellowship\, a PEN Beyond Margins Award\, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Chicago and teaches at Northwestern University.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/naeem-murr/
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SUMMARY:Morgan Campbell
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSunday 9/13\, 3pm \nScreenshot\nMorgan Campbell is an award-winning sportswriter\, and the author of the acclaimed memoir\, My Fighting Family: Borders and Bloodlines and The Battles That Made Us. The book details his experience growing up Black and American\, in Canada\, in a family whose two halves are locked in a bitter\, generations-long conflict. My Fighting Family was named a National Association of Black Journalists Outstanding Book of 2025\, and shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award. It also earned Campbell a nomination for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. \nCampbell is the son of two South-Siders\, and a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/morgan-campbell/
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SUMMARY:Molly Sturdevant
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 10am \n \nMolly Sturdevant’s prose and poetry has appeared in Orion Magazine\, The Dark Mountain Project\, Crab Creek Review\, Another Chicago Magazine\, Poetry Northwest and other places. Her writing has been nominated for Best of the Nets\, Pushcarts\, the Montana Prize in Fiction and Chicago’s Mary Blinn Prize in Poetry. Her debut novel The Sleepers\, (Regal House Publishing) tells the story of a 19th century labor strike in Leadville\, Colorado\, and was researched in the Western Federation of Miners union archives. She moved to Chicago from Colorado in 2001\, and at the moment\, lives in Oak Park.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/molly-sturdevant/
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SUMMARY:MJ Dean
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 4:30pm \n \nMJ Dean is a Chicago-based writer. Her work has appeared in The Poetry Project News Letter\, RHINO Poetry\, Sobotka Literary Magazine\, and elsewhere. She is an associate editor for RHINO Poetry and earned her MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing from DePaul University.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/mj-dean/
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SUMMARY:Mikki Kendall
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 12pm \n \nMikki Kendall is the author of The New York Times Bestselling Hood Feminism and Amazons\, Abolitionists\, and Activists\, a graphic novel illustrated by A. D’Amico. Her essays can be found at TIME\, The New York Times\, The Guardian\, The Washington Post\, Essence\, Vogue\, The Boston Globe\, NBC\, and a host of other sites.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/mikki-kendall/
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SUMMARY:Mike Puican
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSunday 9/13\, 12pm \n \nMike Puican’s debut book of poetry\, Central Air (Northwestern Press)\, was published in 2020. He’s had poems in Poetry\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, and New England Review among many others and he won the 2004 Tia Chucha Press Chapbook Contest for 30 Seconds. He was a member of the Chicago Slam Team and is president emeritus of the Guild Literary Complex. He teaches creative writing to incarcerated individuals at the Federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago and is a mentor in the PEN Prison Writing Mentorship Program.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/mike-puican/
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SUMMARY:Mike Phillips\, Agita Publishing
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 4pm \n \nMike Phillips is the editor and publisher of Agita Publishing.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/mike-phillips-agita-publishing/
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SUMMARY:Michele Morano
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSunday 9/13\, 1pm \n \nMichele Morano is the author of the essay collections Grammar Lessons: Translating a Life in Spain and Like Love. Her work has appeared in publications such as Best American Essays\, The Sun\, Fourth Genre\, Brevity\, Ninth Letter\, and many others. She directs the graduate program in creative writing at DePaul University. \n 
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/michele-morano/
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SUMMARY:Michael O'Donnell
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place\, 1st Floor\n(637 S. Dearborn St.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 10am \n \nMichael O’Donnell is the bestselling author of the novels Concert Black and Above the Fire. In 2023\, Apple Books named him a debut writer to watch. His work also appears in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, The Wall Street Journal\, and The Economist\, among other publications. A longtime member of the National Book Critics Circle\, he practiced law in government and the private sector for over twenty years after clerking for a federal judge. He lives with his family in Park Ridge.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/michael-odonnell/
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SUMMARY:Michael Gebert
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place\, 2nd Floor\n(637 S. Dearborn St.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 3pm \n \nJames Beard Award-winning food writer and video producer Michael Gebert is the author of The Chicago Way: An Oral History of Chicago Dining and has written for Chicago magazine\, the Chicago Reader\, Grub Street and many other publications. His site is Fooditor.com.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/michael-gebert/
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SUMMARY:Michael Copperman
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place\, 1st Floor\n(637 S. Dearborn St.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 3pm \n \nMichael Copperman is an assistant professor in the Department of Writing\, Rhetoric and Cultures at Michigan State University. His memoir Teacher: Two Years in the Mississippi Delta (University Press of Mississippi 2017) was a finalist for the 2018 Oregon Book Award in CNF. He is the Creative Nonfiction editor for the Northwest Review. \nHis new book Seeking Kenny is about the extremes of the American subculture of wrestling as seen through the story of five-time national champion Kenny Cox’s pilgrimage deep into the wilderness of Kauai’s Na Pali Coast (University of Iowa Press 2026).
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/michael-copperman/
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SUMMARY:Mia P. Manansala
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSunday 9/13\, 1pm \n \nMia P. Manansala (she/her) is a writer from Chicago who loves books\, baking\, and bad-ass women. She is the multi-award-winning author of the Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery series and the YA mystery\, Death in the Cards. She uses humor (and murder) to explore aspects of the Filipino diaspora\, queerness\, and her love for Millennial pop culture. \nA lover of all things geeky and cozy\, Mia spends her days procrasti-baking\, gaming\, reading\, eating\, and staring adoringly at her dog\, Gumiho. Her husband is pretty cool too.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/mia-p-manansala/
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SUMMARY:Melissa Bell
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSunday 9/13\, 11am \n \nMelissa Bell joined Chicago Public Media as CEO in September 2024. Melissa is the former co-founder of Vox.com\, which is the leader in explainer journalism\, and the former publisher of Vox Media. Under her leadership\, Vox Media’s platforms reached millions of people each month\, including 350 million social media followers\, dozens of television shows\, 6 billion monthly video views\, and 36 million monthly podcast downloads. \nBefore starting Vox.com\, Melissa wrote a weekly consumer technology column for The Washington Post. 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/
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SUMMARY:Meghan Malachi
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 12pm \n \nMeghan Malachi is a poet and writer from The Bronx\, New York. She is the first-place winner of the Spoon River Poetry Review 2022 Editor’s Prize Contest and runner-up of the 2024 Princemere Poetry Prize. Her poetry collection\, No Lace Fronts in Iowa City\, was selected by Allison Joseph as runner-up of Madville Publishing’s 2024 Arthur Smith Poetry Prize. She is a 2026 SAFTA Summer Fellow and a 2026 Chicago Women’s History Center Writing Fellow. She is an Associate Editor at RHINO. She lives in Chicago\, Illinois.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/meghan-malachi/
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SUMMARY:Mayda Del Valle
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 1:30pm \n \nMayda del Valle is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised on Chicago’s South Side. She is the author of The University of Hip Hop and A South Side Girl’s Guide to Love and Sex. She was the 2001 National Poetry Slam Champion and appeared on six episodes of HBO’s Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry. An original cast member and contributing writer of the Tony Award-winning Def Poetry Jam on Broadway\, she has performed internationally\, including at the White House by invitation of President Obama and the First Lady. She is the 2026–2027 Poet Laureate of the City of Chicago.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/mayda-del-valle/
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SUMMARY:Maurice Broaddus
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 12pm \n \nAn award-winning Afrofuturist\, editor\, and librarian\, Maurice Broaddus has had over a hundred short stories published in such places as Lightspeed Magazine\, Black Panther: Tales from Wakanda\, Out There Screaming (edited by Jordan Peele)\, The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand\, Asimov’s\, Weird Tales\, Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction\, and Apex Magazine. With over a dozen novels in print\, his latest include Black Panther: T’Challa Declassified\, Unfadeable\, Sweep of Stars\, Breath of Oblivion\, and A City Dreaming. Learn more at MauriceBroaddus.com
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/maurice-broaddus/
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SUMMARY:Maureen McKane
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place\, 2nd Floor\n(637 S. Dearborn St.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 10am \nEvoto\nMaureen McKane leans into her past as a psychotherapist while pursuing the truth about being human. Her first book emerges from a lifelong desire to understand Black life in America. She honed her writing skills as a columnist for the Aurora (Illinois) Beacon News and a mental health blogger. Now a full time freelancer\, she has launched Walters Way: A Coach\, His Runners\, and His Race\, the biography of a hero who changed the lives of children\, a Black man unseen in a predominantly white city. Unseen until now.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/maureen-mckane/
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SUMMARY:Maud Lavin
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 12pm \n \nMaud Lavin’s most recent book is her poetry collection Swim Lessons\, published by Tulipwood Books in Seattle. One of her nonfiction works\, Cut with the Kitchen Knife\, was named a New York Times Notable Book. She is a Guggenheim Fellow.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/maud-lavin/
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SUMMARY:Matt Specht
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place\, 2nd Floor\n(637 S. Dearborn St.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 12pm \n \nMatt is an actor\, writer\, musician\, artist\, and poet working in the Milwaukee/Chicago area. He has worked with many local and regional theaters\, is writing his second play\, was once in a touring rock band\, built a sailboat by hand\, and believes in Bigfoot.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/matt-specht/
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SUMMARY:Mary Schmich
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSunday 9/13\, 5pm \n \nMary Schmich is a former Chicago Tribune columnist\, winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. One of her columns\, known as Wear Sunscreen\, was turned into a hit song by moviemaker Baz Luhrmann. That column and others are collected in her book Even the Terrible Things Seem Beautiful to Me Now. For 25 years\, she wrote the comic strip Brenda Starr. She is also the host and writer of the 2025 podcast\, Division Street Revisited\, inspired by Melissa Harris and Studs Terkel.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/mary-schmich/
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SUMMARY:Mary Hawley
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSunday 9/13\, 12pm \n \nMary Hawley is a poet\, fiction writer\, and literary translator (Spanish to English). Her poems\, short stories\, and translations of poetry and prose have appeared most recently in Hypertext\, Pine Row\, Atlanta Review\, The Common\, and Latin American Literature Today\, and she received an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award in fiction. She is the author of two poetry collections\, Double Tongues and Invisible Tides (forthcoming).
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/mary-hawley/
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SUMMARY:Marvin Tate
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 3pm \n \nMarvin Tate is an interdisciplinary artist\, poet\, musician\, performer\, and cultural worker whose practice explores memory\, identity\, Black imagination\, and the transformative power of storytelling. Blending spoken word\, experimental music\, visual art\, theater\, and community engagement\, Tate creates immersive works that challenge convention while fostering dialogue and connection. His performances move fluidly between improvisation and ritual\, inviting audiences into spaces of reflection\, resistance\, and joy. Rooted in collaboration and artistic experimentation\, his work bridges disciplines and generations\, expanding the possibilities of creative expression. Through every medium\, Tate celebrates the resilience\, complexity\, and boundless creativity of the human spirit.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/marvin-tate/
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SUMMARY:Marty McConnell
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 12pm \n \nMarty McConnell is the author of Gathering Voices: Creating a Community-Based Poetry Workshop\, (YesYes Books\, 2018) and when they say you can’t go home again\, what they mean is you were never there\, which won the Michael Waters Poetry Prize. Her first poetry collection\, wine for a shotgun\, was published by EM Press in 2013. She is co-founder and co-editor of underbelly\, an online magazine focused on the art and magic of poetry revision\, and the host of the Chicago Poetry Center’s monthly Blue Hour reading series.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/marty-mcconnell/
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SUMMARY:Mark Turcotte
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 1:30pm \n \nWriter Mark Turcotte (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe) is the current Illinois Poet Laureate and Distinguished- Writer-In-Residence in the English Department at DePaul University.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/mark-turcotte/
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SUMMARY:Mark Larson
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSunday 9/13\, 3pm \n \nAuthor of Ensemble: An Oral History of Chicago Theater\, which drew from his more than 300 interviews with Chicago theater artists both past and present\, and Working in the 21st Century: An Oral History of American Work (2024). The latter was named a best nonfiction book by Esquire and published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Studs Terkel’s Working. Currently completing Something That Is True\, based on 35 interviews with iconic Broadway composer John Kander (Cabaret\, Chicago\, and others) and conversations with collaborators including Alan Cumming\, Lin-Manuel Miranda\, Colman Domingo\, Bebe Neuwirth\, Susan Stroman\, and David Hyde Pierce.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/mark-larson/
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SUMMARY:Mark Eleveld
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 1pm \n \nMark Eleveld is the editor of the Spoken Word Revolution series and a host of the Thru the Mill podcast.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/mark-eleveld/
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