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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250906T143000
DTSTAMP:20260709T101142
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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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SUMMARY:Lisa Barr
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Barr is The New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of The Goddess of Warsaw and Woman on Fire. Lisa served as an editor for The Jerusalem Post\, managing editor of Today’s Chicago Woman\, managing editor of Moment magazine\, and as an editor/reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times. Among the highlights of her career\, Lisa covered the famous “handshake” between the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin\, the late Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat\, and President Bill Clinton at the White House. Lisa has been featured on Good Morning America and TODAY for her work as an author and journalist.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/lisa-barr/
LOCATION:Grace Place\, 637 S. Dearborn St.\, Chicago\, 60605
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SUMMARY:Izidora Angel
DESCRIPTION:Izidora Angel is a Bulgarian-born memoirist and literary translator based in Chicago. Her writing has appeared in A Public Space\, Astra Magazine\, Best Literary Translations 2024\, Chicago Reader\, and elsewhere. She’s been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts\, ART OMI\, the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation and Bread Loaf\, among others. Izidora’s translation of She Who Remains by Rene Karabash\, forthcoming in early 2026\, received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant and won the Gulf Coast Prize in Translation. Izidora is at work on a memoir\, an excerpt from which is featured in the Autumn issue of The American Scholar.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/izidora-angel-2/
LOCATION:Grace Place\, 637 S. Dearborn St.\, Chicago\, 60605
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SUMMARY:Helen Benedict
DESCRIPTION:Helen Benedict\, a British-American professor at Columbia University\, is the author of eight novels\, six nonfiction books\, and a play. Her latest novel\, The Good Deed\, came out in April 2024 from Red Hen Press. Benedict received PEN’s Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History\, the Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism and the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism\, among other awards. Her coverage of sexual assault in the U.S. military inspired the Academy Award-nominated documentary The Invisible War and instigated a landmark lawsuit against the Pentagon on behalf of victims of military sexual assault.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/helen-benedict/
LOCATION:Grace Place\, 637 S. Dearborn St.\, Chicago\, 60605
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SUMMARY:Gazmend Kapllani
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n1pm CT – Grace Place Stage \n \nGazmend Kapllani is an Albanian-born polyglot author of two collections of poetry in Albanian and four published novels\, written in Greek and Albanian\, and translated into several languages. His literary work centers on borders\, totalitarianism\, migration\, and how European history has shaped private and public memories. His books have been the subject of theatrical adaptations and many scholarly essays. His fourth novel Wrongland (Laertes Books) was a 2025 Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal Finalist. Since 2012\, Kapllani lives in the US\, and he directs the Albanian Studies Program at DePaul University. Currently\, he is writing his new novel in English.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/gazmend-kapllani/
LOCATION:Grace Place\, 637 S. Dearborn St.\, Chicago\, 60605
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250906T130000
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SUMMARY:Evan F. Moore
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n1pm CT – Center Stage \n \nEvan F. Moore is a writer whose work over time consists of the topics of sports\, race\, entertainment\, and culture. Evan\, an adjunct journalism professor at DePaul University\, is the co-author of the book Game Misconduct: Hockey’s Toxic Culture and How to Fix It. His writing is featured in the Chicago Sun-Times\, The Defender\, South Side Weekly\, Rolling Stone\, Chicago Reader\, and others. His sports writing garnered an honorable mention in the 2019 edition of The Best American Sports Writing book series. Evan\, who has won several journalism awards\, is also a member of the Harold Washington Literary Award committee.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/evan-f-moore/
LOCATION:Center Stage\, 632 S. Dearborn Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60605\, United States
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SUMMARY:Don Zminda
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n1pm CT – Center Stage \n \nSports historian Don Zminda served as Director of Research at STATS LLC from 1992-2016. He is the author of The Legendary Harry Caray: Baseball’s Greatest Salesman (2019)\, a CASEY Award nominee; Double Plays and Double Crosses: The Black Sox and Baseball in 1920 (2021); and Justice Batted Last: Ernie Banks\, Minnie Miñoso\, and the Unheralded Players Who Integrated Chicago’s Major League Teams (2025). A longtime member of the Society for American Baseball Research\, he edited or co-edited the SABR publications Go-Go to Glory: The 1959 Chicago White Sox (2019) and The 2005 World Champion Chicago White Sox: Grinders & Gamers (2025).
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/don-zminda/
LOCATION:Center Stage\, 632 S. Dearborn Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60605\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250906T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250906T140000
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SUMMARY:David Axelrod
DESCRIPTION:David Axelrod is a preeminent American political strategist and commentator and the former chief strategist and senior advisor to President Barack Obama. Axelrod was the founding director of the University of Chicago’s non-partisan Institute of Politics. He currently serves as a Distinguished Fellow at the University of Chicago\, Chief Political Analyst for CNN\, and Professor of Practice at Arizona State University.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/david-axelrod/
LOCATION:Plymouth Court Stage\, On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth CT.
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SUMMARY:David Ambroz
DESCRIPTION:David Ambroz is a nationally recognized poverty and child welfare advocate\, bestselling author of A Place Called Home: A Memoir\, Emmy-nominated producer\, and currently\, an executive at Amazon. Named a “Champion of Change” by President Obama\, he draws from his lived experience growing up homeless and in foster care to champion youth and families. A graduate of Vassar College and UCLA Law\, David co-founded FosterMore and has shaped national policy through his decades of leadership. His work continues to inspire systemic change and uplift communities across the country.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/david-ambroz/
LOCATION:North Stage\, On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr
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SUMMARY:Brooke Randel
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n1pm CT – Grace Place Stage \n \nBrooke Randel is a writer\, editor and associate creative director in Chicago. She is the author of Also Here: Love\, Literacy\, and the Legacy of the Holocaust. Her writing has been published in Hippocampus\, Hypertext Magazine\, Jewish Fiction\, Split Lip Magazine\, and elsewhere. The granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor\, she writes on issues of memory\, trauma\, family and history. Find more of her work at brookerandel.com.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/brooke-randel/
LOCATION:Grace Place\, 637 S. Dearborn St.\, Chicago\, 60605
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SUMMARY:Anca L. Szilágyi
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n1pm CT – Grace Place Stage \n \nAnca L. Szilágyi is the author of Daughters of the Air\, which Shelf Awareness called “a striking debut from a writer to watch” and Dreams Under Glass\, which BuzzFeed Books called “a novel for our modern times.” Her short fiction has appeared in Lilith Magazine\, Fairy Tale Review\, and Washington City Paper\, among other venues. She is working on a collection of food essays\, some of which have appeared in Orion Magazine\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, and The Fiddlehead. Originally from Brooklyn\, she has lived in Montreal\, Seattle\, and now Chicago\, where she teaches creative writing.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/anca-l-szilagyi/
LOCATION:Grace Place\, 637 S. Dearborn St.\, Chicago\, 60605
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SUMMARY:Adrianne Kalfopoulou
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n1pm CT – Grace Place Stage \n \nAdrianne Kalfopoulou is the author of three poetry collections\, and three collections of prose including\, On the Gaze\, Dubai and its New Cosmopolitanisms (2023)\, and The Re in Refuge (2025). She is Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at RIT-Dubai.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/adrianne-kalfopoulou/
LOCATION:Grace Place\, 637 S. Dearborn St.\, Chicago\, 60605
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SUMMARY:Edward Hirsch
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n12:30pm CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n \nEdward Hirsch\, a Chicago native and MacArthur Fellow\, has published ten books of poems\, including The Living Fire and Gabriel: A Poem\, as well as eight prose books about poetry\, among them How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry and 100 Poems to Break Your Heart. His new memoir is called My Childhood in Pieces: A Stand-Up Comedy\, A Skokie Elegy. He is president of the Guggenheim Foundation and lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/edward-hirsch/
LOCATION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250906T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250906T170000
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CREATED:20250828T224410Z
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SUMMARY:Cedric de Leon
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n12pm CT – Plymouth Court Stage \n \nCedric de Leon is Professor of Sociology and Labor Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has published six books. His newest\, Freedom Train\, with University of California Press is about the role of Black labor activists in desegregating the U.S. labor movement. From 2018 to 2022\, Cedric directed the UMass Amherst Labor Center\, the country’s premier worker-side graduate program in Labor Studies. He was the first person of color to do so. Prior to becoming an academic\, he was an elected leader and staff organizer in the U.S. labor movement.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/cedric-de-leon/
LOCATION:Plymouth Court Stage\, On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth CT.
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SUMMARY:Virginia Bell
DESCRIPTION:Author of Lifting Child from the Ground\, Turning Around (Glass Lyre Press 2025) and From the Belly (Sibling Rivalry Press 2012)\, Virginia Bell won NELLE magazine’s Nonfiction Prize in 2020 for the personal essay\, “Chicken\,” and her poetry won Honorable Mention in the 2019 riverSedge Poetry Prize\, judged by José Antonio Rodríguez. Her work has appeared in Newcity\, Five Points\, Denver Quarterly\, SWWIM\, Hypertext\, EAP: The Magazine\, Fifth Wednesday Journal\, Rogue Agent\, Gargoyle\, Cider Press Review\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, Poet Lore\, and elsewhere. Bell is Co-Editor of RHINO Poetry and teaches at Loyola University Chicago.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/virginia-bell/
LOCATION:North Stage\, On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr
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CREATED:20250829T230059Z
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SUMMARY:James Stewart III
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n12pm CT – Center Stage \n \nJames Stewart III is a Black writer from Chicago and the author of Defiant Acts (Acre Books\, 2025)\, a debut novel praised as “a new classic in the storied tradition of Chicago novels” (Lindsay Hunter) and “an unflinching look into multi-racial America” (David Wright Faladé). Told in vivid\, vignette-style chapters\, the book follows a multiracial\, working-class family navigating race\, labor\, and belonging in a 1990s Chicago suburb. Stewart’s writing appears in Lampblack\, Zone 3\, Midwest Review\, and more. He holds an MFA from SAIC\, an MA from North Central College\, and co-founded the reading series Exhibit B. www.jamesstewart3.com
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/james-stewart-iii-2/
LOCATION:Center Stage\, 632 S. Dearborn Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60605\, United States
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CREATED:20250829T224337Z
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SUMMARY:Helene Achanzar
DESCRIPTION:Helene Achanzar is a poet and editor whose writing has appeared in The Georgia Review\, Sixth Finch\, Best New Poets\, and elsewhere. Winner of the 2022 New England Review Award for Emerging Writers\, her work has been supported by Bread Loaf\, the T.S. Eliot Foundation\, and the Chicago Architecture Biennial. She is a senior editor for Poetry Northwest\, Midwest Regional Chair for Kundiman\, and Director of Programs at the Chicago Poetry Center.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/helene-achanzar/
LOCATION:North Stage\, On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr
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CREATED:20250829T223228Z
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SUMMARY:Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
DESCRIPTION:Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is an Emmy award-winning writer\, social justice attorney\, and playwright. She is a tenured full professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College (CUNY) where she created the course Literature\, Race\, and Law. She was a Resident Fellow at the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School as well as a Visiting Professor there. Gloria received the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award. She attended the MFA Program at Sarah Lawrence College and the Lighthouse Book Project\, in Denver. Browne-Marshall is a writer of nonfiction books\, short stories\, essays\, and a new stage-play that explores the American Dream. Her books include She Took Justice\, The Voting Rights War\, SHOT: Caught A Soul as well as Race\, Law\, and American Society and A Protest History of the United States.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/gloria-j-browne-marshall/
LOCATION:Plymouth Court Stage\, On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth CT.
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Todd-Breland
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n12pm CT – Plymouth Court Stage \n \nElizabeth Todd-Breland is co-author of I Didn’t Come Here to Lie: My Life and Education\, author of A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago Since the 1960s\, and Associate Professor of History and Affiliated Faculty in Black Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research and teaching focus on 20th-century U.S. urban history\, African American history\, the history of education\, and public policy. She also organizes professional development workshops and develops curricula on African American history\, urban education\, and racial justice. From 2019 to 2024\, Todd-Breland served as a member of the Chicago Board of Education.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/elizabeth-todd-breland-2/
LOCATION:Plymouth Court Stage\, On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth CT.
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CREATED:20250828T230417Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250904T231057Z
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SUMMARY:Daniel Lassell
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n12pm CT – North Stage \n \nDaniel Lassell is the author of two poetry books: Frame Inside a Frame (Texas Review Press\, 2025) and Spit (Wheelbarrow Books\, 2021)\, winner of the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize. He grew up in Kentucky and lives in Indiana. Visit his website: www.daniel-lassell.com.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/daniel-lassell/
LOCATION:North Stage\, On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr
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SUMMARY:Carlos Cumpián
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n12pm CT – North Stage \n \nCarlos Cumpián is a poet\, editor and teacher. His latest book Human Cicada (Prickly Pear Publishing) marks his fifth poetry collection. He has been recognized for his contributions to literacy and literature most recently in April 2025\, by the Spanish-language literary consortium Poesia en Abril\, the Illinois Library Association and Read Illinois\, as well as with a Gwendolyn Brooks Significant Illinois Poet Award. He is a member of Macondo literary organization\, and a new board member of the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. Cumpián is the co-founder of March/Abrazo Press\, the first Chicana\, Indigenous and Latino/a/x small press in Illinois.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/carlos-cumpian-2/
LOCATION:North Stage\, On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr
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SUMMARY:Abbott Kahler
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n12pm CT – Grace Place Stage \n \nAbbott Kahler\, formerly writing as Karen Abbott\, is the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City; American Rose; Liar\, Temptress\, Soldier\, Spy; and The Ghosts of Eden Park. She is also the host of Remus: The Mad Bootleg King\, a podcast about legendary Jazz Age bootlegger George Remus. A native of Philadelphia\, she lives in New York City and in Greenport\, New York.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/abbott-kahler/
LOCATION:Grace Place\, 637 S. Dearborn St.\, Chicago\, 60605
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SUMMARY:Tracy Baim
DESCRIPTION:Tracy Baim is executive director of Press Forward Chicago\, a pooled fund for community journalism based at The Chicago Community Trust. Baim is co-founder and owner of Windy City Times. She is former publisher of the Chicago Reader. Baim has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Chicago Headline Club and the Chicago Journalists Association. She has won numerous LGBTQ community and journalism honors\, including the Community Media Workshop’s Studs Terkel Award in 2005 and the Lambda Legal Bon Foster Award in 2023. Baim has written and/or edited 14 books\, her newest is a biography of Howard Brown Health.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/tracy-baim/
LOCATION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage
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SUMMARY:Dr. Travis Gayles
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n11:30am CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n \nDr. Travis Gayles is an accomplished healthcare leader with extensive experience driving organizational growth and health equity across public health\, private sector\, and academia. He currently serves as the CEO of Howard Brown Health. \nMost recently\, he served as Chief Health Officer at Hazel Health\, the nation’s largest school-based telehealth provider\, where he expanded telehealth services in schools across multiple states\, integrating physical and mental healthcare to improve access for students. Prior to that\, Dr. Gayles served as Health Officer for Montgomery County\, Maryland.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/dr-travis-gayles/
LOCATION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage
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SUMMARY:Karen Su
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n11:30am CT – Center Stage \n \nKaren Su is the author of Asian American Leaders Like Us biographies on Grace Lee Boggs\, Philp Vera Cruz\, Yuri Kochiyama\, and Dalip Singh Saund. She was awarded the Many Voices Prize by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators-IL in 2022 and was a We Need Diverse Books non-fiction mentee in 2018. She teaches in the Global Asian Studies Program at the University of Illinois Chicago.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/karen-su/
LOCATION:Center Stage\, 632 S. Dearborn Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60605\, United States
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SUMMARY:Maggie Andersen
DESCRIPTION:Maggie Andersen is an associate professor of English at Dominican University and a founding ensemble member of the Gift Theatre. Her work has appeared in DIAGRAM\, The Los Angeles Review\, Electric Literature\, and Salt Hill\, among others. She lives in Chicago with her husband and her son\, and her debut memoir\, No Stars in Jefferson Park\, comes out in October.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/maggie-andersen/
LOCATION:North Stage\, On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr
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