Plymouth Court Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 2pm Elizabeth Todd-Breland is author of A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago Since the 1960s and Associate Professor of ... Read more

Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 1pm Angela (Angie) Trudell Vasquez was the city of Madison Poet Laureate from 2020 to 2024. The first Latina to ... Read more

North Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 1pm Billy Tuggle is a parent, educator, mentor, performer, and proud South Side Chicagoan. A poetry slam champion, Billy won the 2006 Rustbelt Poetry ... Read more

Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 3pm Nicol Turner Lee writes at the intersection of technology, race, and social justice. She is a Senior Fellow in ... Read more

Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 4pm Luis Alberto Urrea, a Guggenheim Fellow and Pulitzer Prize finalist, is the author of 19 books, winning numerous awards ... Read more

North Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 3pm Cyn Vargas has garnered acclaim for her short story collection, On The Way, earning praise from Shelf Awareness, Library Journal, and other notable ... Read more

Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 12pm Sammie is a bookselling wizard at Anderson's Bookshop in Naperville, IL, where they also moonlight on the events team. ... Read more

Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 11am Laura S. Washington is a Chicago Tribune contributing columnist and political analyst for ABC 7-Chicago. She has been a ... Read more

North Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 12pm Michael M. Weinstein is a poet and essayist whose writing has appeared in venues such as The New Yorker, Boston Review, The Kenyon ... Read more

North Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 2pm Michele Weldon is an award-winning author, journalist, TEDx speaker and emerita faculty at Northwestern University. A senior leader with The OpEd Project and ... Read more

Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 3pm Cassandra West is an assistant managing editor for news features at Crain’s Chicago Business, where she oversees the monthly ... Read more

Grace Place Stage (2nd floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 12pm Theodore Wheeler is the author of four books, including the USA Today bestselling novel The War Begins in Paris (Little ... Read more

Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 10am Jackie K. White, Professor Emerita at Lewis University, is the author of three chapbooks: Bestiary Charming, 2006 Anabiosis Press ... Read more

Plymouth Court Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 1pm Phillip B. Williams is from Chicago, Illinois, and is the author of two collections of poetry: Thief in the Interior, which was ... Read more

North Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 4pm Jeremy T. Wilson is the author of the novel The Quail Who Wears the Shirt and the short story collection Adult Teeth. He ... Read more

Plymouth Court Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 5pm John K. Wilson was a 2019-20 Fellow at the University of California National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement, and is ... Read more

Plymouth Court Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 10am Rachel Wiseman is the co-author, with Anastasia Berg, of the book What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice, out this June ... Read more

North Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 2pm S.L. Wisenberg is the author of The Adventures of Cancer Bitch, newly in paperback, as well as The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search ... Read more

Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 5pm Caroline Woods holds an MFA in fiction from Boston University. She is the author of the novels The Mesmerist, ... Read more

North Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 2pm Amy Yee is author of Far From the Rooftop of the World: Travels among Tibetan Refugees on Four Continents, with a Foreword by ... Read more

North Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 12pm Chicago’s inaugural Poet Laureate, interdisciplinary artist avery r. young is an inaugural Walder Foundation Platform awardee, and recipient of the American Poet Laureate ... Read more

Center Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 10am Kate is a resident of Aurora and is a Speech-Language Pathologist for Valley View School District 365U in Romeoville. She recently appeared in ... Read more

Center Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 1pm Chad the Bird has been the Avian Op-Ed columnist of Chicago for 15 years. You can find him online everywhere and at the ... Read more

Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 4pm Michael Zapata is a founding editor of MAKE Literary Magazine and author of the novel The Lost Book of ... Read more

Center Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 10:15am Angel Zhao was crowned 1st princess of Miss Chinatown Chicago 2023. She holds a degree in Applied Statistics from Purdue University and currently ... Read more