Center Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 4pm Olivia Obineme (she/they) is a content and people strategist, media entrepreneur, and visual journalist based in Chicago. She directs journalism and media engagement ... Read more

Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 2:30pm Uche Okonkwo’s stories have been published in A Public Space, One Story, the Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, The Best American ... Read more

Grace Place Stage (2nd floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 1pm Janika Oza is the author of A History of Burning, winner of the 2024 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, finalist ... Read more

Grace Place Stage (2nd floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 12pm Raul Palma is the author of A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens (Dutton), and In This World of Ultraviolet Light (Indiana ... Read more

Center Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 1pm Kevin Pang is the author of A Very Chinese Cookbook, named one of the best cookbooks of 2023 by The New York Times, ... Read more

North Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 10am Sara Paretsky revolutionized the mystery world in 1982 when she introduced V.I. Warshawski in Indemnity Only. V.I. challenged a genre in which women ... Read more

Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 1:30pm Elise Paschen’s sixth book of poetry, Blood Wolf Moon, will be published in 2025. An enrolled member of the ... Read more

Center Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 1pm Corrbette Pasko is an actor/writer/singer/host/producer and your mom’s favorite, even when she swears. She is the creator of the GenX Update on TikTok ... Read more

Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 12:30pm Frances de Pontes Peebles is the author of the award-winning novels The Seamstress and The Air You Breathe. She ... Read more

Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 5pm Cynthia Pelayo is a Bram Stoker Award–winning author. Her novels include Vanishing Daughters, Forgotten Sisters, Children of Chicago and ... Read more

Center Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 2pm Audrey Petty is the editor of High Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing (Voice of Witness/Haymarket Press) and co-editor of The Long ... Read more

Grace Place Stage (1st floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 1pm Carolyn Pfeiffer is a pioneering producer of American independent film. Having run two successful film companies and worked with directors ... Read more

Grace Place Stage (2nd floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 10am Alta L. Price runs a publishing consultancy specialized in literature and nonfiction texts on art, architecture, design, and culture. Of ... Read more

North Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 11am Ruben Quesada’s forthcoming collection, Brutal Companion, won the Barrow Street Editors Prize and will be released on October 15, 2024. He edited Latinx ... Read more

Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 3:30pm Daniel Rachel is the best-selling author of several books including The Lost Album of the Beatles: What If the ... Read more

North Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 10am Lori Rader-Day is the Edgar Award-nominated and Agatha, Anthony, and Mary Higgins Clark award-winning author of The Death of Us, Death at Greenway, ... Read more

Center Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 12pm Jessica Nirvana Ram is an Indo-Guyanese poet. She is the author of the debut poetry collection, Earthly Gods (Variant Literature, 2024) and the ... Read more

Jazz Showcase Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 4:30pm Pablo Ramirez, the author of Pocho Love: Pilsen Heart Beats To Chicago Streets, is a visual artist and poet as well as ... Read more

Grace Place Stage (2nd floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 2pm Mitzi Rapkin is the founder, host and producer of the literary podcast, First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing, which features ... Read more

Center Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 4pm trina reynolds-tyler is a data journalist for human rights, abolitionist, and South Side of Chicago native. She is a graduate of Colorado College ... Read more

Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 10am Kenyatta Rogers is a Cave Canem Fellow and has been awarded scholarships from the Breadloaf Writers' Conference. His work ... Read more

Plymouth Court Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 1pm Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press and a founding member of Poems While You Wait. She is the ... Read more

Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 12pm Veronica Roth is The New York Times best-selling author of Poster Girl, Chosen Ones, Arch-Conspirator, When Among Crows, the ... Read more

North Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 1pm Francesca T. Royster is Professor of English at DePaul University in Chicago, and received her PhD in English from University of California, Berkeley. ... Read more

Jazz Showcase Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 4:30pm Jacob Saenz is the author of Throwing the Crown, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. His poetry has appeared in The ... Read more