Plymouth Court Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 12pm Bill Savage is Professor of Instruction in the English Department at Northwestern University. He has taught adult education seminars at the Newberry ... Read more

Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 2:30pm Suzanne Scanlon is the author of the memoir Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen and of the novels Promising Young ... Read more

Grace Place Stage (1st floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 1pm Barbara Scharres is a film curator, film journalist, and lecturer. She is currently the artistic director for the Donald M. ... Read more

Grace Place Stage (2nd floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 10am Lynn Schmeidler is an award-winning writer of fiction and poetry. Half-Lives, her new collection of short stories, won the 2023 ... Read more

Plymouth Court Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 4pm Mary Schmich is a Chicago journalist who wrote for the Chicago Tribune for 36 years. She won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for ... Read more

Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 2pm Skyler Schrempp writes historical fiction for young people. Her first novel Three Strike Summer received four starred reviews and ... Read more

Plymouth Court Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 5pm Daniel Schulman is the New York Times bestselling author of Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and ... Read more

Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 11:15am Donna Seaman is the Editor for the adult books section in Booklist. A recipient of the Louis Shores Award ... Read more

Grace Place Stage (2nd floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 11am Harrison Sherrod is the Executive Director of Pentimenti Productions, an arts non-profit and film production company based in Chicago. He ... Read more

Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 11am Dick Simpson is UIC Professor Emeritus and former Chicago Alderman. He has combined a distinguished public service and academic ... Read more

North Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 11am Callie Siskel is the author of Two Minds (W. W. Norton) and Arctic Revival, winner of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. ... Read more

Center Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 11am Sandra is a Chicago documentary photographer working on assignments about education, the arts and community development. For two years, she photographed the transformation ... Read more

Center Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 11am Heidi Stevens is the Director of External Affairs at the TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health, a research institute at the ... Read more

Center Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 12pm James Stewart III is a Black writer from Chicago whose debut novel, Defiant Acts, is forthcoming from Acre Books in May 2025. His ... Read more

Grace Place Stage (1st floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 11am Megan Stielstra is the author of three collections: Everyone Remain Calm, Once I Was Cool, and The Wrong Way to ... Read more

Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 3pm Louise Story is an award-winning investigative journalist who spent more than fifteen years at the New York Times and ... Read more

Center Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 12pm Dan “Sully” Sullivan is a Chicago-born poet residing in Bloomington, IN. Sully’s new book, O Body (Haymarket Books 2024), considers the male body—its ... Read more

Grace Place Stage (2nd floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 10am Guggenheim-winner and author of over twenty books of poetry, fiction, biography, memoir and translation, Terese Svoboda has won the Bobst ... Read more

Plymouth Court Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 2pm Rachel Swearingen is the author of the story collection How to Walk on Water and Other Stories. Her stories, essays, interviews and ... Read more

North Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 4pm Thomas Swick grew up in Phillipsburg, NJ, and lives in Fort Lauderdale, FL, where he spent 19 years as the travel editor of ... Read more

Center Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 10am Rich Swierzewski is a seasoned improv performer with a passion for spontaneous storytelling and comedy. With years of experience in the world of ... Read more

North Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 12pm Ben Tanzer's work includes the short story collection Upstate, the science fiction novel Orphans and the essay collections Lost in Space and Be ... Read more

Plymouth Court Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 11am USA Today bestselling author Sonali Dev writes stories that explore the experience of being a woman in today's world. Her novels have ... Read more

Plymouth Court Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 2pm Steven Thrasher is the author of the award-winning debut book The Viral Underclass, which won the POZ Award for Best in Literature ... Read more

Jazz Showcase Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 4:30pm In 2022 Marisa Tirado published Selena Didn’t Know Spanish Either with Texas Review Press. Though just a chapbook, the collection on Latinx ... Read more