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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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SUMMARY:Mario Elías
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSunday 9/13\, 5pm \n \nMario Elías (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist of Cuban and Syrian descent based in Chicago whose work spans fiction\, nonfiction\, photography\, painting\, and printmaking\, often exploring themes of identity\, memory\, and cultural inheritance. His book Queering the Male Gaze reimagined masterpieces of the classical and modern canon through essays and self-portraiture\, giving voice to the often-overlooked queer and female figures who shaped them. He is the founder of The KindaSuper Project\, a philanthropic initiative providing photography and video services to underserved communities. His debut novel Beloved Disciples was published May 12th\, 2026 by Amble Press.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/mario-elias/
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SUMMARY:Marianna Kontos
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSunday 9/13\, 10am \n \nMarianna Kontos is a proud founding member of Broadway Dropouts! Marianna is a Technical Theatre Artist/Choreographer based in the Chicago suburbs who is passionate about building essential life skills through the arts. When not behind the scenes or onstage\, Marianna enjoys crafting\, attending shows\, and spending time with their “village of amazing humans”. They are excited to share the laughter and love of improv with the community!
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/marianna-kontos/
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SUMMARY:Maria The Pappas
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 1pm \n \nAs Cook County Treasurer\, Maria Pappas took an office that was a backwater in 1998 and made it the gold standard for local government offices. Foreign nations have visited to see what Maria does and how she does it. Local officials have told her that her office’s excellence makes other Cook County offices up their game. She has taken pains to ensure that minority communities\, heavily affected by rising property taxes\, get refunds and exemptions that lower bills. Her ground-breaking Pappas Studies explain to the people just what it is that their government does.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/maria-the-pappas/
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SUMMARY:Marcy Rae Henry
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 4:30pm \n \nMarcy Rae Henry is a multidisciplinary Xicana artist from the Borderlands and author of death is a mariachi\, winner of the May Sarton Poetry Prize; when to go to the Taj Mahal; the body is where it all begins; We Are Primary Colors; and dream life of night owls\, Open Country chapbook prize winner. She’s received a Chicago Community Arts Assistance Grant\, an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship\, numerous Pushcart nominations\, and Kaveh Akbar named her work a George Garrett Fiction Prize Finalist. Henry is a digital minimalist with no social media and Professor of English at a Hispanic Serving Institution.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/marcy-rae-henry/
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SUMMARY:Marcus Darling
DESCRIPTION:  \nScreenshot\nDarling is a musician and multi-hyphenated\, deeply melanated artist inspired by collaborations and the experiences of self interdependent those before and around them. Born and raised in the Chicago Baptist church\, their artistic journey is rooted in the freedom\, channeling the essence of performance art through the senses with a distinct interest in femininity as it interacts with masculinity which ignited a passion that transcended the challenges of their home life. Through incorporating the joy and pain of their experiences and underlining themes that carry a message of alienation Darling’s artistic expression is a visceral exploration of the human condition
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/marcus-darling/
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SUMMARY:Manasseh
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 1pm \n \nManasseh is a Chicago South Side–born vocalist\, songwriter\, and arranger whose psychedelic soul sound pulls from R&B\, jazz\, and gospel into something entirely his own. His new album R&B[eyond] is to be released on his birthday on 8/25\, following his new single\, JUNIE featuring Galaxy Francis and produced by Eddie Burns was just featured by VIBE Magazine. He has toured with Grammy-nominated jazz trumpeter Marquis Hill and joined pop star JoJo on her Too Much To Say Tour\, and is widely regarded as one of Chicago’s most sought-after collaborators.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/manasseh/
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SUMMARY:Malissa Rodenburg
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 \nMalissa is a Seattle-based journalist and poet. Her poetry has appeared in Hog River Press\, Aphor\, Steam Ticket\, among others. She is the host of “Writers Who Run\,” a column and video series in affiliation with Read & Run Tours. Read the columns at readandruntours.com. To see more of her work visit malissaonthemove.com.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/malissa-rodenburg/
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SUMMARY:Maggie Su
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 \nMaggie Su is the author of the novel Blob: A Love Story (Harper\, 2025) which was reviewed in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Publishers Weekly\, and Associated Press. Blob was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award and named one of the best books of 2025 by The New Yorker. Maggie is a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree and holds a PhD in fiction from University of Cincinnati. She serves as a fiction editor at New England Review and lives in South Bend\, Indiana\, with her partner\, daughter\, cat\, and turtle.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/maggie-su/
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SUMMARY:Maggie Andersen
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSunday 9/13\, 1pm \n \nMaggie Andersen is a Chicago-based writer who has published fiction and nonfiction in Electric Literature\, DIAGRAM\, and The Los Angeles Review\, among others. Her debut memoir\, No Stars in Jefferson Park\, was published by Northwestern University Press in Fall 2025. She is Associate Professor of English at Dominican University and a founding company member at the Gift Theatre.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/maggie-andersen/
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SUMMARY:Lori Rader-Day
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 \nLori Rader-Day is the USA Today bestselling author of eight novels including Wreck Your Heart\, The Death of Us\, Death at Greenway\, The Lucky One\, and Under a Dark Sky. She has been nominated for crime fiction’s highest award\, the Edgar Award\, and has won the Mary Higgins Clark Award\, the Agatha Award\, three Anthony Awards\, and an Indiana Author Award. Lori lives in Chicago\, where she co-chairs the crime fiction readers’ event Midwest Mystery Conference and teaches creative writing at Northwestern University.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/lori-rader-day/
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SUMMARY:Lisa Weinert\, LMSW\, RYT\, author of Narrative Healing
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 12:30pm \n \nLisa Weinert\, LMSW\, RYT\, is a therapist\, book coach\, and founder of Narrative Healing™. She is the author of Narrative Healing: Awaken the Power of Your Story. Drawing on more than two decades in publishing and her training in clinical social work\, mindfulness\, and trauma-informed practice\, Lisa incorporates writing into her therapeutic and creative work. Through psychotherapy\, book coaching\, workshops\, and writing communities\, she explores how writing can foster healing\, connection\, and social change—for individuals and for society as a whole.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/lisa-weinert-lmsw-ryt-author-of-narrative-healing/
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SUMMARY:Lisa Lucas
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 11:30am \n \nLisa Lucas was most recently a senior vice president at Knopf Doubleday\, serving as publisher of both Pantheon Books and Schocken Books. Previously\, she worked as the National Book Foundation’s executive director\, and Guernica’s publisher.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/lisa-lucas/
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SUMMARY:Lisa Low
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 12pm \n \nLisa Low is the author of Replica (University of Wisconsin Press\, 2026) and the chapbook Crown for the Girl Inside (YesYes Books\, 2023). She is the recipient of a 2023 Pushcart Prize and the 2020 Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize\, and her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review\, Ecotone\, The Massachusetts Review\, Poetry\, The Southern Review\, and elsewhere. Originally from Maryland\, she lives in Chicago.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/lisa-low/
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SUMMARY:Lina Chern
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 \nLina Chern’s debut novel Play the Fool won the 2024 Mary Higgins Clark Award and was nominated for the Anthony and Lefty Awards. Its follow-up\, Tricks of Fortune\, has also been nominated for an Anthony Award. Lina’s shorter work has appeared in Mystery Weekly\, The Marlboro Review\, The Bellingham Review\, RHINO\, Black Fox Literary Magazine\, and has been shortlisted for the TriQuarterly Fiction Prize. She lives in the Chicago area with her family.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/lina-chern/
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SUMMARY:Leslé Honoré
DESCRIPTION:Center 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 \nLeslé is a Blaxican poet\, activist\, and author. In her poetry and personal life\, she helps people find their voices through the arts and helps marginalized communities stand in the gaps that social\, economic and racial inequalities create. Her first Children’s book\, Brown Girl\, Brown Girl based on her viral poem about Vice President Kamala Harris\, was released in November of 2024\, followed by My Brown Boy in January 2026. Her forthcoming book\, If You Raise Free Daughters\, based on her poem that was read by Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson\, is set for release in 2027.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/lesle-honore/
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SUMMARY:Lee Bey
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSunday 9/13\, 4pm \n \nLee Bey is architecture critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. He is also author of the much-praised book Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side (Northwestern University Press\, 2019)\, which showcases his architectural photography and social commentary. Bey’s photography is also featured in the book\, Who is the City For? Architecture\, Equity\, and the Public Realm in Chicago (University of Chicago Press\, 2022) by former Chicago Tribune Architecture Critic Blair Kamin. He is currently working on a book that documents the architecture of Chicago’s West Side.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/lee-bey/
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SUMMARY:Leah Eskin
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSunday 9/13\, 2pm \n \nLeah Eskin writes about food and other pressing matters. Her novel\, Like Wafers in Honey\, tells the story of Stella\, a Jewish girl from Tuscany fleeing Fascist brutality. And it follows Edda\, a Westchester housewife trying to save a lost treasure—Italian Jewish cuisine. Yotam Ottolenghi calls the book “beautiful … a survival story and a cultural archive … showing how memory\, food\, and storytelling can resist erasure.” Eskin is also the author of the memoir Slices of Life: A Food Writer Cooks Through Many a Conundrum. She lives in Chicago with her husband.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/leah-eskin/
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SUMMARY:Layne Fargo
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSunday 9/13\, 5pm \n \nLayne Fargo has a background in theater\, women’s studies\, and library science\, so it’s only fitting that she now writes deliciously dramatic\, unapologetically feminist stories for a living. She’s the bestselling author of the novels The Favorites\, They Never Learn\, and Temper\, as well as co-author on the Young Rich Widows series\, and her work has been translated into more than twenty languages. Layne lives in Chicago with her partner\, their pets\, and an ever-expanding collection of books she’s definitely going to read before she dies.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/layne-fargo/
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SUMMARY:Lauren Hough
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 11am \n \nLauren Hough was born in Germany and raised in seven countries\, and West Texas. She’s been an Air Force airman\, a bartender\, a bouncer\, a construction laborer\, a driver\, a green-aproned barista\, and a cable guy. She’s the author most recently of Monster of a Land: On the Road in Search of Modern America and of the New York Times bestselling essay collection\, Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing. She lives in Austin with a dog named Woody Guthrie.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/lauren-hough/
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SUMMARY:Laura Sims
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place\, 2nd Floor\n(637 S. Dearborn St.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 2pm \nEvoto\nLaura Sims’s previous novels How Can I Help You and Looker have been featured on Best Books lists in The New York Times Book Review\, Vogue\, People Magazine\, Entertainment Weekly\, Real Simple\, Publishers Weekly\, and more. An award-winning poet\, Sims has published four poetry collections; her essays and poems have appeared in The New Republic\, Boston Review\, Lit Hub\, and Electric Lit. She lives in New Jersey\, where she works part-time as a children’s librarian.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/laura-sims/
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SUMMARY:Laura Rodriguez Presa
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 11am \n \nLaura Rodríguez Presa is a senior journalist at the Chicago Tribune. She covers immigration\, community\, and culture\, focusing on how immigration policy intersects with the human experience. Her reporting highlights the impact of laws and political decisions on immigrant communities\, particularly Latino families in Chicago and beyond.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/laura-rodriguez-presa/
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SUMMARY:LaShawn Harris\, Michigan State University\, Beacon Press
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSaturday 9/12\,  11:30am \n \nLaShawn Harris is an award-winning Professor of History at Michigan State University. Her first monograph Sex Workers\, Psychics\, and Number Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2016. Harris is also the author of Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & The Police Killing that Galvanized New York City. Published by Beacon Press in 2025\, Tell Her Story was named a 2026 finalist for the Association of American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Awards).
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/lashawn-harris-michigan-state-university-beacon-press/
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SUMMARY:Kimberly Gomes
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place\, 1st Floor\n(637 S. Dearborn St.)\nSaturday 9/12\, 1pm \n \nKimberly Gomes is a writer\, songslinger\, and creativity coach. She’s the author of A Road of Her Own\, (Red Light Lit Press\, 2026) and a poetry collection\, Love Notes to the Body (Dancing Girl Press\, 2019). Her novel was named a semi-finalist for the 2022 Black Lawrence Press Prose Book Award. Her work has been named a top personal essay of 2021 by Entropy Magazine\, and has been featured in The San Francisco Chronicle and Sunset Magazine. When she’s not creating\, you can find Kimberly hiking mountains\, plotting travels\, and swing dancing with people she loves. Learn more at kimberly-gomes.com.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/kimberly-gomes/
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SUMMARY:Kim Fu
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSunday 9/13\, 3pm \n \nKim Fu is the author of the novels For Today I Am a Boy (2014)\, The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore (2018)\, and most recently\, The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts (2026)\, a Belletrist Book Club pick\, New York Times notable book\, and Indigo bestseller. Fu’s story collection Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century (2022) won the Washington State Book Award\, the Pacific Northwest Book Award\, and the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. It was also a finalist for the Giller Prize\, the Ignyte Awards\, the Shirley Jackson Awards\, and the Saroyan International Prize. Fu lives in Seattle\, Washington.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/kim-fu/
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SUMMARY:Kerry Daimid
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSunday 9/13\, 10am \n \nKerry is thrilled to be returning to Printers Row Lit Fest with her improv troupe Broadway Dropouts. The setting is great and the kids were so fun to entertain.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/kerry-daimid/
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