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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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SUMMARY:Keisa Reynolds
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n11am CT – Plymouth Court Stage \n \nKeisa Reynolds​ is a queer Black feminist writer​ and community educator​ from Richmond\, CA. They are a contributor to the anthology ​We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition​ (Haymarket Books\, 2024). \nTheir writing can also be found in print and online at ​Contra Costa Pulse\, In These Times\, and Hooligan Mag.​ ​K​eisa has an MA in Women’s Studies and Gender Studies from Loyola University Chicago and a BA in Cultural Studies from Columbia College Chicago.​ \nThey live in Illinois with their husband and child.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/keisa-reynolds/
LOCATION:Plymouth Court Stage\, On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth CT.
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SUMMARY:Jaclyn Youhana Garver
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n11am CT – North Stage \n \nJaclyn Youhana Garver is an author and poet from Fort Wayne\, Indiana. Her first novel\, Then\, Again is contemporary fiction and came out in November from Lake Union Publishing. Garver co-edited Requiem for a Siren: Women Poets of the Pulps\, a collection of vintage horror and sci-fi poetry\, which was published by Chicago’s From Beyond Press. Her story “The Butterfly Catcher” also appeared in the press’ This World Belongs to Us: An Anthology of Horror Stories About Bugs. Her poetry chapbook\, The Men I Never: was published in 2023. She serves on the Midwest Writers Workshop’s board of directors.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/jaclyn-youhana-garver/
LOCATION:North Stage\, On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr
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SUMMARY:Crystal S. Rudds
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n11am CT – Grace Place Stage \n \nCrystal S. Rudds is an assistant professor of African American literature and culture at the University of Utah\, previously tenured at Malcolm X College. She served as assistant editor for the oral history High Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing (2013) and is currently writing a book that explores representations of public housing in film\, literature\, photography\, and qualitative interviews with Black men. An MFA from Indiana University\, she also publishes creative work that has appeared in Obsidian\, NightBallet Press\, After Hours Press\, Midnight & Indigo\, Big Shoulders Books\, and dancing girl press (forthcoming).
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/crystal-s-rudds/
LOCATION:Grace Place\, 637 S. Dearborn St.\, Chicago\, 60605
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SUMMARY:Bill Ayers
DESCRIPTION:William Ayers\, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (retired) has written extensively about social justice and democracy\, education and the cultural contexts of schooling\, and teaching as an essentially intellectual\, ethical\, and political enterprise. His books include A Kind and Just Parent; Fugitive Days: A Memoir; Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident; To Teach: The Journey\, in Comics; Demand the Impossible!; and When Freedom is the Question Abolition is the Answer.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/bill-ayers/
LOCATION:Plymouth Court Stage\, On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth CT.
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SUMMARY:Avani Chhaya
DESCRIPTION:Author Avani Chhaya\, a Midwest native with roots that span across oceans\, is an avid storyteller. She is beaming about publishing her first book\, Lakshmi at the Lake. She brings a background filled with teaching\, nonprofit work\, and educational policy. Avani aspires to tell stories that spotlight the beauty of the South Asian experience.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/avani-chhaya/
LOCATION:Center Stage\, 632 S. Dearborn Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60605\, United States
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SUMMARY:April Gibson
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n11am CT – Grace Place Stage \n \nApril Gibson is a poet\, writer\, and professor whose work has appeared in The Kenyon Review\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, Rhino\, Prairie Schooner and elsewhere. Her poetry collection The Span of a Small Forever (Amistad/HarperCollins\, 2024) was shortlisted for a Chicago Review of Books Award and first runner-up for Chicago Reader’s Best of Chicago. April is a recipient of The Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award\, and she has received grants\, fellowships\, or residencies from the Poetry Foundation\, Tin House\, Callaloo\, Vermont Studio Center\, the National Endowment for the Humanities and others. April is an Assistant Professor of English at Malcolm X College.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/april-gibson-2/
LOCATION:Grace Place\, 637 S. Dearborn St.\, Chicago\, 60605
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SUMMARY:Anya M. Tanyavutti
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n11am CT – Plymouth Court Stage \n \nAnya Tanyavutti earned her Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education and Masters degree in Socio-Cultural Studies and Educational Thought\, both from Western Michigan University. She has served as President of the Evanston/Skokie D65 Board of Education. Ms. Tanyavutti has served as the Executive Director for a birth justice organization\, an arts education integration organization. She is proud to now serve as executive director of a nationally recognized leader in bereavement support services.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/anya-m-tanyavutti/
LOCATION:Plymouth Court Stage\, On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth CT.
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SUMMARY:Amanda Uhle
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n11am CT – Grace Place Stage \n \nAmanda Uhle writes about culture\, politics\, and civil rights for The Washington Post\, Politico Magazine\, The Boston Globe\, and Newsweek. Uhle is coeditor of the I\, Witness series of first-person stories by youth activists\, former director of the 826michigan youth writing and tutoring program\, and cofounder\, with Dave Eggers\, of the International Congress of Youth Voices. Their work with youth writing organizations worldwide is documented in Unnecessarily Beautiful Spaces for Young Minds on Fire. Uhle is the publisher and executive director of McSweeney’s\, an independent nonprofit publisher of distinctive books and magazines.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/amanda-uhle/
LOCATION:Grace Place\, 637 S. Dearborn St.\, Chicago\, 60605
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SUMMARY:Liz Rose Shulman
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n10am CT – Grace Place Stage \n \nLiz Rose Shulman is a writer and a teacher. She is the author of Good Jewish Girl: A Jerusalem Love Story Gone Bad\, published by Querencia Press. Her writing has also appeared in HuffPost\, Slate\, The Boston Globe\, the Chicago Tribune\, Los Angeles Review\, and Tablet Magazine\, among others. She teaches English at Evanston Township High School and in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. She lives in Chicago.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/liz-rose-shulman/
LOCATION:Grace Place\, 637 S. Dearborn St.\, Chicago\, 60605
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SUMMARY:Leslé Honoré
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n10am CT – Center Stage \n \nLeslé Honoré is a Blaxican poet and activist\, and the author of Brown Girl\, Brown Girl. Born and raised in Gardena\, California\, she remains deeply rooted in the heritage and culture of her father\, a native of New Orleans\, Louisiana\, and her mother\, who was born in Culiacán\, Sinaloa\, Mexico. Leslé lives in Chicago with her three phenomenal children.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/lesle-honore/
LOCATION:Center Stage\, 632 S. Dearborn Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60605\, United States
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SUMMARY:Laura Washington
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n10am CT – Plymouth Court Stage \n \nLaura S. Washington is a Chicago Tribune contributing columnist and political analyst for ABC 7-Chicago. She has served as a Fellow at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics and the Ida B. Wells-Barnett University Professor at DePaul University\, editor and publisher of The Chicago Reporter\, and deputy press secretary to Chicago Mayor Harold Washington. Her award-winning work has been widely featured in the national media\, including Time magazine\, the Associated Press\, New York Times\, NBC Nightly News\, MNSBC\, PBS News Hour and the BBC. Washington is a frequent lecturer and moderator for local and national audiences.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/laura-washington-2/
LOCATION:Plymouth Court Stage\, On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth CT.
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SUMMARY:Jorge Valdivia
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n10am CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n \nJorge Valdivia is the Executive Director of the Chicago Latino Theater Alliance (CLATA)\, where he produces Destinos: Chicago International Latino Theater Festival\, celebrating Latine stories on Chicago stages. With over 25 years in arts and media\, he champions equity through cultural advocacy and public engagement. He is also co-founder of the Latino Writers Initiative\, a national community supporting emerging Latine writers. Previously\, Valdivia served as Director of Performing Arts at the National Museum of Mexican Art\, curating year-round programming in theater\, literature\, and film that amplified Mexican and Latin American artistic voices.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/jorge-valdivia/
LOCATION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage
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SUMMARY:Heather Augustyn
DESCRIPTION:Heather Augustyn is author of eight books on the history of ska and Jamaican music. She is assistant professor of practice in writing at Purdue University Northwest and is a regular contributor to SPIN\, Downbeat\, and Wax Poetics.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/heather-augustyn-2/
LOCATION:North Stage\, On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr
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SUMMARY:Gioia Diliberto
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n10am CT – Plymouth Court Stage \n \nGioia Diliberto is the author of eight books – five nonfiction and three novels – and a play. Her books have been praised for combining rich storytelling with thorough research to bring alive worlds as varied as Belle Epoque France\, Civil War Louisiana\, Nazi-occupied Paris\, nineteenth century Chicago\, and Prohibition New York. As a journalist and book reviewer\, Gioia has contributed to many publications\, including The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, the Los Angeles Times\, the Chicago Tribune\, Smithsonian\, and Vanity Fair. She also teaches writing at Northwestern University’s School of Professional Studies.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/gioia-diliberto/
LOCATION:Plymouth Court Stage\, On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth CT.
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SUMMARY:Dawn Tripp
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n10am CT – Plymouth Court Stage \n \nDawn Tripp is the nationally bestselling author of the novel Jackie\, and the novel Georgia\, which was the finalist for the New England Book Award and winner of the Mary Lynn Kotz Award for Art in Literature. Tripp is also the author of Game of Secrets\, Moon Tide\, and The Season of Open Water\, which won the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction. Her poems and essays have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review\, Harvard Review\, Conjunctions\, on NPR\, and others. Her books have been published into a dozen languages. She graduated from Harvard and lives in Massachusetts with her sons.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/dawn-tripp/
LOCATION:Plymouth Court Stage\, On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth CT.
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SUMMARY:Betsy Bird
DESCRIPTION:Betsy Bird is the author of the picture book POP! Goes the Nursery Rhyme\, ill. by Andrea Tsurumi\, as well as numerous other picture books and novels for kids. In addition to writing\, she blogs for School Library Journal\, has a podcast with her sister about picture books (Fuse 8 n’ Kate)\, and reviews for Kirkus. Betsy is the former Youth Material Specialist of New York Public Library and now works as the Collection Development Manager of Evanston\, IL.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/betsy-bird/
LOCATION:Center Stage\, 632 S. Dearborn Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60605\, United States
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SUMMARY:Alex Poppe
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n10am CT – Grace Place Stage \n \nHaving worked in conflict zones such as Iraq\, the West Bank\, and Ukraine\, Alex Poppe writes about fierce and funny women rebuilding their lives in the wake of violence. She is the award-winning author of four works of literary fiction. Breakfast Wine\, her memoir-in-essay of her near decade in northern Iraq\, was published by Apprentice House Press on June 10\, 2025. Most recently\, she has worked in international development\, awed by place\, people\, and their stories.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/alex-poppe/
LOCATION:Grace Place\, 637 S. Dearborn St.\, Chicago\, 60605
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SUMMARY:Alec Nevala-Lee
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n10am CT – Grace Place Stage \n \nAlec Nevala-Lee is the author of Collisions: A Physicist’s Journey From Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs\, the first biography of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Luis W. Alvarez\, which was published by W. W. Norton in June. His other books include Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller (2022) and the Hugo Award finalist Astounding: John W. Campbell\, Isaac Asimov\, Robert A. Heinlein\, L. Ron Hubbard\, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction (2019). He lives in Oak Park with his wife\, the NPR host Wailin Wong\, and their daughter.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/alec-nevala-lee/
LOCATION:Grace Place\, 637 S. Dearborn St.\, Chicago\, 60605
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SUMMARY:Rachel Webster
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n11pm CT – Grace Place Stage \n \nRachel Jamison Webster has published five books\, including Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family (Holt 2023)\, which was named a Best Book by The New Yorker and was an Editor’s Pick at The New York Times. Her book\, Mary is a River\, was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Rachel’s book\, The Sea Came Up & Drowned combines “mined” poetry and her visual collages to meditate on our extractive economy and our fractured relationship to the earth and its peoples. Rachel teaches in the English Department at Northwestern University.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/rachel-webster/
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SUMMARY:Sarah Schulman
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n3pm CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n \nSarah Schulman is a novelist\, playwright\, nonfiction writer\, screenwriter\, and AIDS historian. She is a professor at Northwestern in Creative Writing and is on the Advisory Board of Jewish Voice for Peace.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/sarah-schulman/
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SUMMARY:Margarita Saona
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n4pm CT – Center Stage \n \nMargarita Saona was born in Lima\, Peru. She currently teaches literature and cultural studies in Chicago. Her academic work deals with gender and national identity\, memory\, and\, most recently\, medical humanities. She writes short fiction\, poetry\, and mix-genre non-fiction. Her work has appeared in English and Spanish. Among her works in translation are Corazón de hojalata/Tin heart and The Ghost of You.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/margarita-saona/
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SUMMARY:Alicia Ross
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n2pm CT – Center Stage \n \nAlicia Ross is a bookseller at Booked\, Evanston’s cozy independent bookstore! A Northwestern alum\, but originally from the south\, she was sucked in by the cuteness of Evanston and the clout of telling out-of-towners she lives in Chicago (they can’t prove otherwise). Alicia hosts Sunday Smut\, the adult romance book club\, and is pushing very hard for more horror romance\, mass market paperbacks\, and super-hot consent scenes. When she’s not at the bookstore\, you may find her working in the marketing department of one flightless bird’s arbitrary publishing house or dabbling in zany internet content.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/alicia-ross/
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SUMMARY:Julio Rangel
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n4pm CT – Center Stage \n \nBorn in Mexico\, Julio Rangel lives in Chicago since 2000. In Mexico he was a journalist and rural teacher. Along with a group of Latino writers\, he cofounded Contratiempo magazine in 2003. His essays have appeared in Marcos Raya: “Fetishizing the Imaginary” and René Arceo: “Between the Instinctive and the Rational.” His book El blues de la línea roja was published in May 2025.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/julio-rangel/
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SUMMARY:Suzanne Petri
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n12pm CT – Center Stage \n \nSuzanne Petri is a founding member of Perennial Theatre Chicago and Chicago Cabaret Professionals\, an ensemble member of American Blues\, a Jeff Award nominated actor\, a Cabaret Fellow\, Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center\, an After Dark Award winning Cabaret Artist\, performing Marlene Musik at the Pritzker Auditorium and Torch Sass and Swing! with her husband Robert Breuler\, at Steppenwolf’s 1700 Theatre. She has performed\, produced and directed on many Chicago stages including Goodman\, Steppenwolf\, Chicago Dramatists and Chicago Shakespeare. She’s a frequent Ubiquitous Theatre performer and works with Chicago Writers Bloc doing original plays and musicals. Visit SuzannePetri.com
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/suzanne-petri/
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SUMMARY:Mary Webber O'Malley
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n3pm CT – Center Stage \n \nMary Webber O’Malley is a Virtual Bookseller for Skylark Bookshop in Missouri\, a Program Coordinator for the Book Industry Charitable Foundation (Binc)\, and a Host and Author Liaison for A Mighty Blaze. She is also a writer\, frequent book reviewer\, and blurber. She lives outside Chicago with her husband\, tending their suburban homestead.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/mary-webber-omalley/
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