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SUMMARY:Michael Zapata
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n10am CT – Plymouth Court Stage \n \nMichael Zapata is the author of the novel The Lost Book of Adana Moreau\, winner of the 2020 Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction\, and a Best Book of the Year for NPR\, the A.V. Club\, Los Angeles Public Library\, and BookPage\, among others. He is a recipient of a Meier Foundation Artist Achievement Award and the DAG Prize for Literature. He’s on the faculty of StoryStudio Chicago and the MFA faculty of Northwestern University. As a public-school educator\, he taught literature and writing in high schools servicing drop out students. He currently lives in Chicago with his family.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/michael-zapata-2/
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SUMMARY:Pamela Ayo Yetunde
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n11am CT – Grace Place Stage \n \nPamela Ayo Yetunde\, ThD\, is a pastoral counselor\, educator\, and founder of the Theology of Prince project at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. She is the author of Casting Indra’s Net\, named one of the best spirituality books in 2023 by Spirituality and Practice\, and coeditor of Black and Buddhist\, winner of the Nautilus Gold Book Award. Her work has been featured in Lions Roar\, Spirituality and Practice\, and Spirituality and Health\, among many other outlets. In 2022 Yetunde was named an Outstanding Woman in Buddhism by the International Women’s Meditation Center Foundation. She lives in Chicago.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/pamela-ayo-yetunde/
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SUMMARY:Mark Wukas
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n12pm CT – Center Stage \n \nMark Wukas is a lifelong Chicagoan who has spenthis life writing and teaching.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/mark-wukas/
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SUMMARY:Nili Wronski\, The Storybook Mom
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n10am CT – Center Stage \n \nNili Yelin is a professional storyteller known as The Storybook Mom™. She has been performing stories for ages 0-100 for twenty years and has won numerous awards. \nAfter graduating Northwestern University with a degree in Theatre and Communications\, Nili worked at MTV and Saturday Night Live for a decade. Her stand-up comedy career led her back to Chicago to raise her family\, and motherhood led her to create The Storybook Mom™. \nNili returned to live and work in NYC in 2017.\nwww.storybookmom.com
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/nili-wronski-the-storybook-mom/
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SUMMARY:Rita D. Woods
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n11am CT – North Stage \n \nBorn and raised in Detroit\, Michigan\, Rita Woods recieved her BS in Microbiology before graduating from Howard School of Medicine. She currently serves as Medical Director at a men’s maximum security prison. Her previous novels Remembrance and The Last Dreamwalker have won numerous awards including the AALBC Award for fiction\, the Hurston/Wright Award for speculative fiction\, the Midlands Author Award and the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year. \nRita lives in surburban Chicago with her family and a houseful of cats
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/rita-d-woods/
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SUMMARY:Soren Jimmie Williams
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n12pm CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n \nSoren Jimmie Williams is excited to start her Steppenwolf journey and thrilled to be a small part of the Printers Row Lit Festival. She has starred in short films including Toad Boy\, The Residential\, and Mrs. Hunter is Dead. She has also appeared on stage in productions such as Footloose\, Descendants\, and The Yellow Boat. Williams lives in Oak Park\, Illinois with her mother\, brother and two French bulldogs and enjoys dancing\, traveling\, and spending time with friends.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/soren-jimmie-williams/
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SUMMARY:Theodore C. Van Alst\, Jr.
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n12pm CT – Center Stage \n \nTheodore C. Van Alst Jr. is the author of Chicago-set award-winning story collections Sacred Smokes and Sacred City; Sacred Folks\, the final book in the trilogy\, was published by the University of New Mexico Press in October 2024. He is the co-editor of the bestselling Never Whistle at Night from Vintage/Penguin Random House. His debut novel\, The El\, was recently published by Vintage/PRH August 2025. His work has appeared in Southwest Review\, Chicago Review\, The Journal of Working-Class Studies\, Red Earth Review\, Massachusetts Review\, Indian Country Today\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/theodore-c-van-alst-jr/
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SUMMARY:Mark Turcotte
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n1:30pm CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n \nRecently named as the 6th Illinois Poet Laureate\, Mark Turcotte (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe) has been an active member of Chicago’s literary scene since the mid 90s. He is author of the books\, The Feathered Heart and Exploding Chippewas\, and his work has appeared in dozens of magazines and journals\, including the first ever Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry. He has received recognition from the Lannan Foundation and Wisconsin Arts Board and is Distinguished Writer-In-Residence at DePaul University.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/mark-turcotte/
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SUMMARY:Tony Trigilio
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n10am CT – Grace Place Stage \n \nTony Trigilio’s recent books of poetry and nonfiction include The Punishment Book (BlazeVOX [books]\, 2024); Craft: A Memoir (Marsh Hawk Press\, 2023); and Proof Something Happened\, chosen by Susan Howe as the winner of the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize (2021). A volume of his selected poems\, Fuera del Taller del Cosmos\, was published in 2018 by Guatemala’s Editorial Poe (translated by Bony Hernández). He is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/tony-trigilio/
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SUMMARY:Uxmar Torres
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n12pm CT – North Stage \n \nUxmar Torres is a Spoken Word Poet. He was born on the Southside of Chicago in the 1900s. He started writing poetry at age 10. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Poetry from Augustana College in 2018. He officially released his first spoken word album\, The Garden\, in 2022. In 2025 he was selected as the first poet laureate of Joliet\, IL\, making him the first poet laureate of Mexican descent in the state of Illinois.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/uxmar-torres/
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SUMMARY:Matt Topic
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n10am CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n \nMatt is a partner at Loevy + Loevy\, where he leads the Media/Freedom of Information and Intellectual Property practices. Matt and his team have litigated hundreds of state and federal open records cases\, and represent news publishers in copyright cases against OpenAI. Matt was named to the 2024 Time list of 100 most influential people in AI.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/matt-topic/
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SUMMARY:Rachel Swearingen
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n12pm CT – Plymouth Court Stage \n \nRachel Swearingen is the author of How to Walk on Water and Other Stories. Her work has appeared in Electric Lit\, The Missouri Review\, Kenyon Review\, Off Assignment\, Agni\, American Short Fiction\, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Berlin Writing Prize\, the New American Press Fiction Prize\, the Missouri Review Editors’ Prize in Fiction\, the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, and the Mississippi Review Prize in Fiction. Rachel has taught writing and literature at The School of the Art Institute\, Cornell College\, Western Michigan University\, Kalamazoo College and elsewhere. She lives in Chicago.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/rachel-swearingen-2/
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SUMMARY:Nina Sudhakar
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n3pm CT – Grace Place Stage \n \nNina Sudhakar is a writer\, poet\, and lawyer based in Chicago. She is the author of Where to Carry the Sound (winner of the 2024 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction and a 2024 Foreword INDIES award) and two poetry chapbooks\, Matriarchetypes and Embodiments. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus\, Witness\, Ecotone\, The Offing\, and elsewhere. She serves as Dispatches and Book Reviews Editor at The Common and on the board of the Chicago Poetry Center. For more\, please see www.ninasudhakar.com.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/nina-sudhakar/
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SUMMARY:Megan Stielstra
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n3pm CT – North Stage \n \nMegan Stielstra is the author of three collections: Everyone Remain Calm\, Once I Was Cool\, and The Wrong Way to Save Your Life. Her work appears in Best American Essays\, The New York Times\, Chicago Tribune\, The Believer\, Poets & Writers\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. A longtime company member with 2nd Story\, she has told stories for National Public Radio\, the Museum of Contemporary Art\, and theaters\, festivals\, and classrooms across the country. She is an acquiring editor at Northwestern University Press and teaches creative nonfiction for StoryStudio Chicago.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/megan-stielstra-2/
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SUMMARY:Ross A Slotten\, MD
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n11:30am CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n \nRoss A Slotten\, MD\, MPH is a family physician and HIV/AIDS specialist currently affiliated with the Ascension Medical Group\, St. Joseph Hospital in Chicago. He has been in practice since 1984. He received a BA in Classics and BS in Biology from Stanford University (1977) and his medical degree from Northwestern University (1981). He completed his internship and residency in Family Medicine at St. Joseph Hospital in Chicago (1981-84). He also has a master’s degree in public health from the University of Illinois in Chicago (1992). From 1981-90 he was a volunteer at Howard Brown Memorial Clinic and served both on the board and as co-medical director of the clinic (now known as Howard Brown Health Center). In 1988\, he co-founded 11 West\, St. Joseph Hospital’s AIDS unit. During the 1990s\, he served on the board of Bonaventure House\, which provided housing for unhoused people with HIV infection. He is the author of AIDS in Namibia\, published in Social Science & Medicine\, July 1985; The Heretic in Darwin’s Court: The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace (Columbia University Press\, 2004); and Plague Years: A Doctor’s Journey Through the AIDS Crisis (University of Chicago Press\, 2020).
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/ross-a-slotten-md/
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SUMMARY:Sasha-Ann Simons
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n3pm CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n \nSasha-Ann Simons is an award-winning journalist and host of WBEZ’s Reset\, a daily talk show from Chicago’s NPR station. She’s a former national reporter and program host at WAMU in Washington\, D.C.\, regularly behind the mic on newscasts and talk shows. Sasha-Ann’s reporting focused on issues of race\, identity\, and economic mobility. Her accolades include an Edward R. Murrow award\, a Radio Feature award from the National Association of Black Journalists\, and multiple awards from the Society of Professional Journalists. Sasha-Ann obtained a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University and studied film and television production at American University.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/sasha-ann-simons/
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SUMMARY:Skyler Schrempp
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n12pm CT – Grace Place Stage \n \nSkyler Schrempp writes historical fiction for young people. Her first novel Three Strike Summer received four starred reviews and was listed on several “best of” lists including Bank Street College of Education’s Best Children’s Books of the Year\, Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best\, and Horn Book Fanfare 2022 Booklist. It was an official Illinois Reads selection\, winner of the Chicago Public Library’s mock Newberry\, a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Awards\, and the recipient of a Judy Lopez Memorial Honor. Skyler received her MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Art.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/skyler-schrempp-2/
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SUMMARY:Mary Schmich
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n3pm CT – Plymouth Court Stage \n \nMary Schmich is a former Chicago Tribune columnist who won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. She is part of the team that created Division Street Revisited\, a 7-episode podcast dreamed up by Melissa Harris and released in 2025. One of her columns\, loosely known as Wear Sunscreen\, was turned into a popular recording by moviemaker Baz Luhrmann. She also wrote the Brenda Starr comic strip for 25 years. She teaches yoga at Yogaview and the DePaul Theatre School. She lives in Chicago.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/mary-schmich-2/
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SUMMARY:Maya Schenwar
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n11am CT – Plymouth Court Stage \n \nMaya Schenwar is director of the Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism and board president at Truthout. She is the co-editor of We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition and co-author of Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms\, among other books. Schenwar has written for The New York Times\, The Guardian\, and The Nation\, among others. Schenwar is a cofounder of the Movement Media Alliance and organizes with the Love & Protect collective. She lives in Chicago with her partner\, child\, and abolitionist cat.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/maya-schenwar/
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SUMMARY:Sky Rune
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n12pm CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n \nI’m Sky Rune I am a transgender actress and representative of Steppenwolf’s Young Adult Council.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/sky-rune/
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SUMMARY:Renée Rosen
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n3pm CT – Center Stage \n \nRenée Rosen is the USA Today bestselling author of nine novels\, including Let’s Call Her Barbie\, Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl\, The Social Graces\, Park Avenue Summer and others. Her novels have been translated into over a dozen different languages and counting. \nRenée is a native of Akron\, Ohio\, and a graduate of the American University in Washington\, D.C. She now lives in Chicago and is currently working on a new novel expected in 2027 and will be published by Penguin Random House / Berkley.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/renee-rosen/
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SUMMARY:Rachel Robbins
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n11am CT – Grace Place Stage \n \nRachel Robbins received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a tenured assistant professor at the City Colleges of Chicago. A visual artist and two-time Pushcart Prize-nominated writer\, her paintings have materialized on public transit\, children’s daycare centers\, and Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. She is the author of In Lieu of Flowers\, available through Tortoise Books\, and The Sound of a Thousand Stars\, available from Alcove Press\, Penguin Random House Audio\, and Hodder & Stoughton\, an imprint of Hachette UK. She lives in Chicago with her husband\, children\, and Portuguese Water dog.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/rachel-robbins/
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SUMMARY:Riley Redgate
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n12pm CT – Grace Place Stage \n \nRiley Redgate is the author of six YA novels\, most recently Come Home to My Heart (Union Square/Hachette). Her books have been published on four continents\, optioned for film and TV\, and named to best-of-the-year lists by ALA\, Kirkus Reviews\, and the New York Public Library. She is also the writer of the WEBTOON Originals series Angel of Death and has written for The Onion\, America’s Finest News Source. Her first novel for the adult market\, Bad Words\, is forthcoming from St. Martin’s/Macmillan in fall 2026 under her real name\, Rioghnach Robinson. You can find her on Instagram @rileyredgate and @rioghnachrobinson.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/riley-redgate/
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SUMMARY:Pemon Rami
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n3pm CT – North Stage \n \nPemon Rami is an accomplished author and international film producer\, and a member of the Illinois Arts Council board. He served as a Professor at Loyola University and previously held the position of Director of Educational and Public Programs at the DuSable Museum. Among his notable works\, Pemon produced the feature film Of Boys and Men\, starring Angela Bassett and Robert Townsend\, and 93 Days\, starring Danny Glover\, earning him a nomination for an African Academy Award. His new film A Boy Named Bobby\, will be released in 2025. Pemon published his memoir\, When Blackness Was Golden in 2022.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/pemon-rami/
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SUMMARY:Ruben Quesada
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n1pm CT – North Stage \n \nRuben Quesada is a poet and educator. He edited the award-winning anthology Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry. His poetry and translations appear in the Best American Poetry series\, The New York Times Magazine\, Essential Queer Voices of U.S. Poetry\, and elsewhere. Ruben’s writing has been supported by the American Literary Translators Association\, the Jentel Foundation\, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, and the Illinois Arts Council. His new poetry collection\, Brutal Companion\, won the Barrow Street Editors Prize and was recognized as A Notable Book of 2024 by the University of California.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/ruben-quesada-2/
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SUMMARY:Ned Scott Laff\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n3pm CT – Grace Place Stage \n \nDr. Ned Scott Laff has over 35 years of university experience\, working in curriculum development\, program assessment\, general education review and revision\, self-designed majors\, and developing centers that integrate mentoring\, and career development. He was awarded the Civic Engagement Award from The Washington Center for his work in community-based learning. He has broad interests in improving the quality of undergraduate education and revitalizing the liberal arts. He has a special interest in the role mentoring plays in helping students design and integrate their educational\, professional\, and personal goals into a successful undergraduate education.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/ned-scott-laff-ph-d/
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SUMMARY:Miriam J. Petty
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n5pm CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n \nMiriam Petty is Associate Dean for Academic Programs in the Graduate School and Associate Professor in Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University. A scholar of race\, stardom\, and African American representation in Hollywood\, her work appears in leading media studies journals. Her award-winning book Stealing the Show explores Black stardom in 1930s Hollywood. Her current project examines the cultural impact of Tyler Perry. Petty is also a dedicated public scholar\, curating film series and symposia\, and is a member of the Library of Congress’ National Film Preservation Board. She joined Northwestern in 2011 after teaching at Rutgers University Newark and Princeton.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/miriam-j-petty/
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SUMMARY:Sarah Perry
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n11am CT – Grace Place Stage \n \nSarah Perry (she/they) is the author of Sweet Nothings: Confessions of a Candy Lover (Mariner\, 2025) and After the Eclipse: A Mother’s Murder\, a Daughter’s Search (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, 2017)\, which was named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. Her writing has also appeared in The Huffington Post\, Off Assignment\, Elle magazine\, The Guardian\, Cake Zine\, and elsewhere. She holds an M.F.A. in nonfiction from Columbia University\, was the 2019 McGee Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Davidson College\, and is now Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Colorado State University.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/sarah-perry/
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SUMMARY:Peter Orner
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n2pm CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n \nBorn in Chicago\, Peter Orner is the author of seven acclaimed books including Maggie Brown & Others\, Love and Shame and Love\, Esther Stories\, finalist for the Pen/ Hemingway Award\, and Am I Alone Here?\, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Best American Stories\, and has been awarded four Pushcart Prizes. A former Guggenheim fellow and recipient of the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, Orner is chair of the English and Creative Writing Department at Dartmouth College. He lives with his family in Vermont.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/peter-orner/
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SUMMARY:Lonnae O'Neal
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n4pm CT – North Stage \n \nLonnae O’Neal is a senior writer for ESPN/Andscape\, where she specializes in the intersection of race\, sports and culture. Prior to her tenure at ESPN/Andscape\, she spent nearly two and half decades as a reporter and columnist for The Washington Post. She is also an adjunct lecturer at the Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies. She is an award-winning journalist and the author of Bibb Country: Unearthing My Family Secrets of Land\, Legacy – And Lettuce and I’m Every Woman\, Remixed Stories of Marriage\, Motherhood and Work.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/lonnae-oneal/
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