Grace Place Stage (1st floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 3pm New York Times bestselling author Shawntelle Madison has written over 15 science fiction, fantasy, and romance titles, most notably the ... Read more

Grace Place Stage (2nd floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 11am Thomas Maier is an award-winning author, investigative reporter, and television producer. He is the author and a producer of Paramount's ... Read more

Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 5pm Rebecca Makkai is the author of New York Times bestseller I Have Some Questions for You, as well as ... Read more

Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 11am Dr. Gordon Mantler teaches writing and history at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He specializes in 20th-century ... Read more

Grace Place Stage (2nd floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 12pm Juan Martinez is the author of the novel Extended Stay (Camino del Sol/University of Arizona Press, 2023) and the story ... Read more

Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 10am David Masciotra is the author of six books, including Exurbia Now: The Battleground of American Democracy, and I Am ... Read more

Center Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 4pm Adrian Matejka is the author of seven books, most recently a mixed media collection inspired by Funkadelic, Standing on the Verge & Maggot ... Read more

North Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 3pm Christine Maul Rice’s novel, Swarm Theory, was called "a gripping work of Midwest Gothic" by NPR and won numerous awards. Most recently, her ... Read more

Grace Place Stage (1st floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 2pm Jared Mayer is a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Prior to ... Read more

North Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 1pm Marty McConnell is a poet, educator, and healer based in Chicago. She is the author of the poetry collections when they say you ... Read more

North Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 4pm Ann McGlinn is the author of two novels, El Penco (2014) and Ride On, See You (2023), both published by Cuidono Press.

Grace Place Stage (2nd floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 2pm Elizabeth McKenzie’s novel The Dog of the North was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a Los Angeles Times ... Read more

Plymouth Court Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 5pm Ethan Michaeli is an award-winning author of two non-fiction books, Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel, (Custom House, 2021), ... Read more

Jazz Showcase Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 4:30pm Jose-Luis Moctezuma is a Xicano poet, essayist, and researcher. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Chicago. His chapbook, ... Read more

North Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 11am Faisal Mohyuddin is the author of Elsewhere: An Elegy (Next Page, 2024), The Displaced Children of Displaced Children (Eyewear, 2018), and The Riddle ... Read more

Grace Place Stage (2nd floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 3pm Natalie Y. Moore is a senior lecturer at Northwestern University.

North Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 5pm Zak Mucha, LCSW, is a psychoanalyst in private practice and president of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. He is the author of Swimming ... Read more

Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 10am Simone Muench is the recipient of an NEA Poetry Fellowship; the 2023 Lewis University Career Scholarship Award; a 2023 ... Read more

North Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 4pm Dipika Mukherjee’s collection of travel essays, Writer's Postcards (Penguin Random House SEA), was published in November 2023. Her work has been translated into ... Read more

Plymouth Court Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 11am Samhita Mukhopadhyay is the former executive editor of Teen Vogue and former executive editor at Feministing. As a writer, her work has ... Read more

North Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 12pm Jarrett Neal is the Writing Center Coordinator. His first book, What Color Is Your Hoodie?: Essays on Black Gay Identity, was a finalist ... Read more

Center Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 4pm Jamie Nesbitt Golden is a reporter for Block Club Chicago where she covers Bronzeville and the Near South Side. The Bronzeville native's work ... Read more

Plymouth Court Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 2pm Arionne Nettles is a professor, culture reporter, and audio aficionado who serves as the Garth C. Reeves Eminent Scholar chair and instructor ... Read more

Grace Place Stage (1st floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 2pm Martha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, appointed in the Philosophy Department and ... Read more

Grace Place Stage (1st floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 10am Ugochi Nwaogwugwu is a multidisciplinary creative. Her poems have been published in Storm Between Two Fingers and Too Young, Too ... Read more