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SUMMARY:Diane Williams
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 5PM \n \nDiane Williams\, a retired arts administrator\, professional storyteller\, fiber artist\, and author\, specializes in writing nonfiction. Her extensive body of work includes numerous books\, as well as contributions to literary journals and anthologies.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/diane-williams/
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SUMMARY:Dhe-Di Beats
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 1PM \n \nDhe-Di Beats is a Chicago-based DJ known for delivering high-energy sets and creating unforgettable vibes. With a passion for connecting with audiences through music\, she brings versatility\, professionalism\, and an infectious energy to every performance. Whether spinning at clubs\, private events\, festivals\, or community gatherings\, Dhe-Di Beats keeps the dance floor moving and every crowd engaged with a seamless\, dynamic sound.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/dhe-di-beats/
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SUMMARY:dezireé a. brown
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 12PM \n \ndr. dez brown (they/he)\, publishing as dezireé a. brown\, is a Black queer nonbinary and transmasculine Pushcart Prize–nominated poet and interdisciplinary scholar\, born and raised in Flint\, MI. Their debut collection of poetry\, they/she/he: ritual to forget your (un)becoming\, was the winner of the Joe W. Bratcher Prize and a finalist for the 2026 Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature. Often claiming to have been born with a poem written across his chest\, he spends much of his time gaming and plays a mean hand of spades. Follow them online at @deziree.the.writer.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/deziree-a-brown/
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SUMMARY:Dawn Turner
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSunday 9/13 – 4pm \n \nDawn Turner is the author of the novel Majestic Hills. Her memoir\, Three Girls from Bronzeville\, won the inaugural Chicago Book Award and was named a Notable book by The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, and the Chicago Tribune\, among others. A former columnist for the Chicago Tribune\, Dawn has twice served as a juror for the Pulitzer Prize in commentary and has written commentary for The Washington Post\, PBS NewsHour\, CBS Sunday Morning News show\, NPR’s Morning Edition show\, and elsewhere. She has held fellowships at the Maynard Institute of Journalism Education\, Harvard University and the University of Chicago.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/dawn-turner/
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SUMMARY:David Saul Bergman
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 2pm \n \nDavid Saul Bergman is the pen name of Daniel Born\, a Chicago-based writer and editor. Born taught English for forty years at institutions including Marietta College in Ohio\, Dominican University\, and Northwestern University\, and served as a vice president at the Great Books Foundation. His hardboiled crime fiction includes Unpardonable Sins (2021) and Prodigal Sons: A Novel (2025). Both books feature Mennonite preacher and sleuth John Reimer. He is also author of The Birth of Liberal Guilt in the English Novel: Charles Dickens to H. G. Wells (1995) and editor of The Essential Dale Suderman Reader (2024).
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/david-saul-bergman/
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SUMMARY:David Pasquesi
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 4pm \n \nDavid is a Chicago native and improviser. \nIf you want to know more… there’s a thing called the internet.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/david-pasquesi/
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SUMMARY:David Murray
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place\, 1st Floor\n(637 S. Dearborn St.)\nSunday 9/13 – 3pm \n \nDavid Murray is the author of several books\, including Soccer Dad and An Effort to Understand: Hearing One Another (and Ourselves) in a Nation Cracked in Half. \nMurray is an award-winning journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times\, Chicago Tribune\, The Atlantic\, and many other publications. \nHe is also editor and publisher of Vital Speeches of the Day\, one of the world’s oldest continuously published magazines\, and founder and executive director of the Professional Speechwriters Association. Murray writes on communication issues at Writing-Boots.com\, and lives with his wife and daughter in Chicago.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/david-murray/
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SUMMARY:David Masciotra
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 4pm \n \nDavid Masciotra is the author of six books\, including Exurbia Now: The Battleground of American Democracy and I Am Somebody: Why Jesse Jackson Matters. He is a contributing writer with the Washington Monthly\, and has written about many national publications about politics\, literature\, and music.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/david-masciotra/
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SUMMARY:David Cerda
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 1pm \n \nDavid Cerda is a playwright\, actor\, and co-founder of Hell in a Handbag Productions\, Chicago’s premier camp and parody theater company—now celebrating 25 years. He created and stars as Dorothy in the long-running hit The Golden Girls: The Lost Episodes and was featured at the inaugural GoldenCon. He is currently appearing in Joan Crawford Goes to Hell as Joan Crawford. \nIn recognition of his artistic and philanthropic impact on Chicago\, Cerda received a Joseph Jefferson Lifetime Achievement Award and was inducted into the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame in 2016.\nFor more information go to handbagproductions.org
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/david-cerda/
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SUMMARY:Danny Postel
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSunday 9/13 – 4pm \n \nDanny Postel is Politics Editor of New Lines Magazine. He is the author of the book Reading Legitimation Crisis in Tehran and co-editor of several books on the Middle East. Previously he was Assistant Director of the Center for Global Studies at Northwestern University\, Senior Editor of the London-based magazine openDemocracy\, a staff writer for The Chronicle of Higher Education\, and Editor of The Common Review\, the (late) magazine of the Great Books Foundation. He has taught international studies at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) and magazine writing at Columbia College Chicago. He lives in Rogers Park.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/danny-postel/
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SUMMARY:Danielle Bainbridge
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 5pm \n \nDanielle Bainbridge is an assistant professor of theatre at Northwestern University. Her memoir\, Dandelion\, was released by Jaded Ibis Press in 2025 and her academic book Currencies of Cruelty: Slavery\, Freak Shows\, and the Performance Archive was published by NYU Press in 2026. She’s received residencies and scholarships from Tin House\, Banff\, the Adirondack Center for Writing\, VONA\, and Ragdale. She is a web series creator\, producer\, and host. Her media work has been recognized with three Daytime Emmy nominations and one NAACP Image Award nomination. She lives and loves in Chicago with her partner and two naughty cats.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/danielle-bainbridge/
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SUMMARY:Daniel W. Hatcher
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSunday 9/13 – 11am \n \nDaniel Hatcher has spent his career championing children’s health\, well-being\, and belonging. Through his work with schools\, families\, and communities across the country\, he helps build bridges that support healthier\, happier childhoods. When he’s not focused on advancing school and community health\, Daniel can be found guiding sound healing\, yoga\, and tai chi practices\, leading nature and forest therapy adventures\, or setting off on long walks to explore the world one step at a time.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/daniel-w-hatcher/
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SUMMARY:Daisy Hernández
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSunday 9/13 – 11am \n \nDaisy Hernández is the author of Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth\, which Booklist calls “an essential book for these contentious times.” She is also the author of The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family\, an Insect\, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease\, which won the PEN /Jean Stein Book Award and the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature Award. She is the author of the acclaimed memoir A Cup of Water Under My Bed and coeditor of the feminist anthology Colonize This! She is an Associate Professor at Northwestern University.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/daisy-hernandez/
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SUMMARY:Cynthia Pelayo
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 4pm \n \nCynthia Pelayo is a Bram Stoker Award and International Latino Book Award-winning author and poet. Her works have been nominated for the Chicago Review of Books\, CHIRBy\, Locus\, and Elgin Awards. She is the editor of Something Followed Us Home: Tales of Latine Horror and her latest novel It Came From Neverland has been called the Best Horror of 2026 so far by BookRiot. She lives in Chicago with her family.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/cynthia-pelayo/
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SUMMARY:Cynthia Dewi Oka
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 4:30pm \n \nOriginally from Bali\, Indonesia\, Cynthia Dewi Oka (Dewi) is the author of four poetry collections\, most recently A Tinderbox in Three Acts (BOA Editions\, 2022) and Fire Is Not a Country (Northwestern University Press\, 2021). An alumnus of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers\, her poems have appeared in POETRY\, The Atlantic\, Poets.org\, Poetry Society of America\, Washington Square Review\, and elsewhere. She has received the Amy Clampitt Residency\, Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Prize\, and the Leeway Transformation Award.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/cynthia-dewi-oka/
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SUMMARY:Craig Duff
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place\, 2nd Floor\n(637 S. Dearborn St.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 12pm \n \nCraig Duff is a national Emmy award-winning filmmaker\, video journalist and theater artist. Sanctuary Stories — which he created with journalist Stephen Franklin — had a sold out run in early 2026 at the Windy City Playhouse. Craig’s Chicago stage credits include roles in Macbeth (Invictus Theatre Co.)\, Hamlet (Red Theater) and Measure for Measure (Olde School Shakespeare). He also played Prospero in The Tempest at the Viroqua Shakespeare Festival. Craig’s a journalism professor at Northwestern’s Medill school\, where he leads the video/broadcast specialization in the Masters program.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/craig-duff/
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SUMMARY:Courtney Maum
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSunday 9/13 – 12pm \n \nCourtney Maum is the author of five previous books\, including the romantic comedy Touch (New York Times Editors’ Choice) about a tech worker’s efforts to reclaim her humanity and the memoir The Year of the Horses chosen by the Today show as one of the best reads for mental health awareness. The author is also of the groundbreaking publishing guidebook Before and After the Book Deal and the bestselling Substack newsletter by the same name. Maum is an educator and writing coach helping people hold on to the joy of art making in a culture obsessed with turning artists into brands.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/courtney-maum/
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SUMMARY:Cianna Greaves\, Senior Producer\, WBEZ ChicagoCianna Greaves
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSunday 9/13 – 2pm \n \nCianna is an award-winning producer\, reporter and host. Cianna came to WBEZ in 2021\, having worked at National Public Radio affiliates WYPR and WEAA at Morgan State University. \nShe brings more than fifteen years of experience in producing talk shows\, news and podcasts. Her work has also been featured in the Chicago Sun-Times and the BBC World Service. Cianna frequently reports on art\, culture and food with a focus on trends and culture across the African diaspora. \nShe is a lifelong Liverpool F.C. supporter\, traveler and gourmand.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/cianna-greaves-senior-producer-wbez-chicagocianna-greaves/
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SUMMARY:Christopher Paul Curtis
DESCRIPTION:Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, just east of Clark St.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 2:30pm \n \nFlint\, Michigan’s Christopher Curtis spent thirteen years on the assembly line at Fisher Body Plant #1 putting driver’s doors on big Buicks. This left Christopher with an aversion to getting into and out of big Buicks. He started writing while in the factory and honed his craft there. \nHe is a graduate of the University of Michigan-Flint. \nHis books include: The Watsons Go To Birmingham (1963)\, The Newbery Medal-winning Bud\, Not Buddy\, Elijah of Buxton\, The Mighty Miss Malone\, Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money\, and the National Book Award Finalist The Journey of Little Charlie. \nHe currently lives in Canada.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/christopher-paul-curtis/
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SUMMARY:Christine Maul Rice
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSunday 9/13 – 2pm \n \nChristine’s award-winning novel\, Swarm Theory\, was called a “a gripping work of Midwest gothic.” Her latest novel\, a fictional reimagining of the Flint water crisis\, is forthcoming. Her short stories\, essays\, and interviews have appeared in Allium\, Make Literary Magazine\, The Rumpus\, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, The Millions\, Roanoke Review\, The Literary Review\, among others. Christine founded Hypertext Magazine and is an Assistant Professor of English at Valparaiso University.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/christine-maul-rice/
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SUMMARY:Chris Bower
DESCRIPTION:Grace Place\, 1st Floor\n(637 S. Dearborn St.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 11am \n \nChris Bower is a playwright/performer/teacher and an ensemble of the Curious Theatre Branch. His next short work\, tentatively titled Drowned Dicks\, a play about a basement flood that destroys a man’s collection of very rare and very unread Moby Dicks\, will premiere at Rhino Fest 2026 in October. Chris is also the creator/host of The Ray’s Tap Reading Series\, the creator of Cafe Neckbeard\, and teaches writing at both Columbia College Chicago and Oakton College.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/chris-bower/
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SUMMARY:Chicago Multicultural Dance Center & Hiplet Ballerinas
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 11am \n \nThe Hiplet Ballerinas are the professional company of the Chicago Multi-Cultural Dance Center in the USA. \nHiplet™ was created by Artistic Director Homer Hans Bryant and evolved from the Rap Ballet of the 1990s. Specifically designed to make Ballet accessible to all people\, Hiplet™ is a fusion between classical pointe technique\, Hip-Hop\, and a variety of other dance styles.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/chicago-multicultural-dance-center-hiplet-ballerinas/
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SUMMARY:Carrie Olivia Adams
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 5pm \n \nCarrie Olivia Adams lives in Chicago\, where she is the executive editor for the nonprofit press Black Ocean and the promotions and marketing communications director for the University of Chicago Press. Her books include The Book of Marys and Glaciers\, Be the thing of memory\, Operating Theater\, Forty-One Jane Doe’s\, and Intervening Absence in addition to the chapbooks Proficiency Badges\, Grapple\, Overture in the Key of F\, and A Useless Window. She writes the “Poetry & Biscuits” newsletter on Substack and curates a house reading series by the same name. When she’s not making poems\, she’s making biscuits.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/carrie-olivia-adams/
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SUMMARY:Carrie Muehle
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSunday 9/13 – 10am \n \nCarrie Muehle is a graduate of Northwestern University’s MFA program and a former Managing Editor of TriQuarterly\, Northwestern’s literary magazine. She recently served as the president of the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame’s associate board\, where she led the development of the Randall Albers Young Writers Award\, an award celebrating the accomplishments of Chicago-area high school writers of poetry and prose. She has organized several literary readings and published numerous author interviews\, many of which can be found at TriQuarterly.org. A dedicated Chicagoan\, Carrie lives on the city’s northwest side with her husband\, son and dog.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/carrie-muehle/
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SUMMARY:Caroline Bicks
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 12pm \n \nCaroline Bicks is the Stephen E. King Chair in Literature at the University of Maine. Her new book\, Monsters in the Archives (praised by King as “the best book about my process that I have ever read”)\, chronicles what she discovered when he granted her extended access to his private papers. Previous books include Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare’s World and Shakespeare Not Stirred: Cocktails for Your Everyday Dramas (co-written with her Everyday Shakespeare podcast co-host\, Michelle Ephraim). Her essays have appeared in the “Modern Love” column of The New York Times\, the Financial Times\, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/caroline-bicks/
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SUMMARY:C. Russell Price
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSaturday 9/12 – 5pm \n \nC. Russell Price is an Appalachian punk poet originally from Glade Spring\, Virginia. They are the author of Tonight\, We Fuck the Trailer Park Out of Each Other\, oh you thought this was a date?!: Apocalypse Poems and the recently published collection Bisquick: An American Seance (Northwestern University Press). They are a Lambda Fellow\, Ragdale Fellow\, and two time top 50 writers of Chicago. They are a poet in residence with the Chicago Poetry Center and an editorial collective member of The Anarchist Review of Books. Price landscapes in Chicago.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/c-russell-price/
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SUMMARY:Brooke Nevils
DESCRIPTION:Digital Realty Stage\n(On W. Polk St.\, at Plymouth Ct.)\nSunday 9/13 – 2pm \nThe journalist Brooke Nevils Thompson (USA)\, New York\, New York\, June 25\, 2025. Photograph © Beowulf Sheehan\nBrooke Nevils is an author\, journalist and mom. Her book\, Unspeakable Things: Silence\, Shame and the Stories We Choose to Believe\, is a vital examination of our most persistent and dangerous misunderstandings\, myths and stereotypes about sexual harassment and assault. Part memoir\, part investigative journalism\, Unspeakable Things weaves her experience as one of MeToo’s defining stories with groundbreaking interviews of leading clinicians\, forensic professionals\, attorneys and frontline researchers to challenge our understanding of consent\, power and the lingering\, often misunderstood effects of trauma and shame. A graduate of the John Hopkins University\, Brooke lives with her family in Maryland.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/brooke-nevils/
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SUMMARY:Brian Trapp
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSunday 9/13 – 12pm \n \nBrian Trapp is the author of Range of Motion (2025)\, out now from Acre Books. He is the director of disability studies at the University of Oregon\, where he also teaches creative writing and serves as the editor of the Northwest Review. His work has been published in the Kenyon Review\, Southern Review\, Longreads\, Brevity\, and elsewhere. He grew up near Cleveland\, Ohio\, with his twin brother\, Danny.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/brian-trapp/
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SUMMARY:Brian Hieggelke
DESCRIPTION:Center Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets\, West Side of Dearborn.)\nSunday 9/13 – 2pm \n \nBrian Hieggelke is the co-founder of Newcity magazine\, now celebrating its fortieth anniversary since its founding in Printers Row. The publication is the largest arts and culture magazine in the Midwest. Hieggelke has completed eight Chicago and one New York City marathons.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/brian-hieggelke/
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SUMMARY:Brian Bouldrey
DESCRIPTION:North Stage\n(On S. Dearborn St.\, just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)\nSunday 9/13 – 10am \n \nBrian Bouldrey is an Associate Professor of Instruction at Northwestern University. The recipient of a Lambda Literary Award\, among other honors\, he is the author of ten books\, most recently\, The Good Pornographer\, as well as Good in Bed: A Life in Queer Sex\, Politics\, and Religion. He is the editor of Inspired Journeys: Travel Writers in Search of the Muse and six other anthologies. He has published three previous novels\, including The Boom Economy.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/brian-bouldrey/
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