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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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SUMMARY:Simone Muench
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n1:30pm CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n \nSimone Muench is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship and the author of seven full-length books\, including Lampblack & Ash (Sarabande; Kathryn A. Morton Prize)\, Wolf Centos (Sarabande)\, and The Under Hum (Black Lawrence Press\, 2024)\, cowritten with Jackie K. White. Poems are forthcoming in Kenyon Review\, North American Review\, swamp pink\, New Letters\, Pleiades\, and elsewhere. She serves as faculty advisor for Jet Fuel Review\, a senior poetry editor for Tupelo Quarterly\, and poetry editor for Jackleg Press.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/simone-muench-2/
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SUMMARY:Michele Morano
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n4pm CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n \nMichele Morano is the author of the essay collections Like Love and Grammar Lessons: Translating a Life in Spain. Recent work appear in The Sun and The Overturning\, an anthology of writers responding to the end of Roe v. Wade. She teaches essay\, memoir\, and travel writing in the graduate and undergraduate programs at DePaul University in Chicago.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/michele-morano/
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SUMMARY:Professor (retired) Richard K. Burt MD
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n5pm CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n MD pioneered America’s first hematopoietic stem cell transplant for autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis and scleroderma. He was awarded Leukemia Scholar of America\, the Lupus Foundation Fidelitas Award\, the European van Bekkum Award\, the Clinical Research Forum Distinguished Clinical Achievement Award\, the “Keys to the Vatican” and is recognized by Science Illustrated for accomplishing one of the Top 10 medical breakthroughs and by Scientific American as one of the Top 50 individuals for improving humanity and outstanding leadership. He has written 150 medical / science articles\, four medical textbooks\, and two lay books: Everyday Miracles and Kill Switch.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/professor-retired-richard-k-burt-md/
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SUMMARY:Michael McColly
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n10am CT – Grace Place Stage \n \nMichael McColly’s essays have appeared in The New York Times\, the Boston Review\, and The Sun magazine. He is the author of the Lambda Literary Award–winning memoir The After-Death Room\, chronicling his journey reporting on AIDS activism in Africa\, Asia\, and the United States.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/michael-mccolly/
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SUMMARY:Tasslyn Magnusson
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n11am CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n \nTasslyn Magnusson is a senior advisor with the Freedom to Read program at PEN America. She researches censorship attempts in the K-12 libraries and supports PEN America’s work in creating resources to support authors whose work is targeted.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/tasslyn-magnusson/
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SUMMARY:Rachel León
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n1pm CT – North Stage \n \nRachel León is a writer\, editor\, and social worker who has worked in child welfare for over a decade. She serves as Managing Director of Chicago Review of Books and Fiction Director for Arcturus. She’s the editor of The Rockford Anthology\, forthcoming from Belt Publishing in October. Her debut novel\, How We See the Gray\, will be published by Curbstone Books in May 2026.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/rachel-leon/
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SUMMARY:Tod Lending
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n1pm CT – Grace Place Stage \n \nTod Lending is a novelist and an Academy Award® nominated and Emmy winning documentary filmmaker whose work\, over 38 years\, has broadcasted nationally and internationally on the major networks\, screened theatrically and received awards at ‘A’ list national and international festivals\, and inspired the creation of federal legislation (The Legacy Act/American Dream Act). Mr. Lending’s debut novel\, The Umbrella Maker’s Son\, published by HarperCollins in 2025\, received excellent reviews from Kirkus (Starred review)\, Library Journal\, Publishers Weekly\, New York Journal of Books\, Historical Novel Society\, MSN\, and others. It is also being published in Slovenia\, Hungary\, Poland\, and Romania.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/tod-lending/
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SUMMARY:Viola Lee
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n12pm CT – North Stage \n \nViola Lee graduated from NYU with an MFA in Poetry. Her book Lightening after the Echo was published by Another New Calligraphy. She has published poems in literary journals throughout the US\, and recently published in Wayfarer Magazine\, Mayday Magazine\, Mississippi Review\, Barrow Street\, and Another Chicago Magazine. Most recently her poem\, “Mixtape\,” was published in Braving the Body (Harbor Editions.) She lives in Chicago with her husband and children and teaches 4th\, 5th and 6th graders at Near North Montessori School.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/viola-lee/
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SUMMARY:Maud Lavin
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n5pm CT – North Stage \n \nMaud Lavin’s most recent books are the eco-novel Mermaids and Lazy Activists: A Lake Michigan Tale (From Beyond Press)\, with a portion of each sale going to FLOW: For Love of Water\, and the poetry collection Swim Lessons (Tulipwood). She is also the author of Cut with the Kitchen Knife\, named a New York Times Book Review Notable Book; Clean New World; Push Comes to Shove; and Silences\, Ohio\, as well as the editor of three anthologies. Her writing has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship–and residencies at Ragdale and the National University of Singapore.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/maud-lavin/
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SUMMARY:Maria Krysan
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n3pm CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n \nMaria Krysan\, LAS Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois Chicago\, has spent decades teaching\, researching\, and writing about residential segregation. Her multiple award-winning book\, Cycle of Segregation\, offers an innovative framework for understanding the causes of segregation and served as a springboard for her engaged work\, including the book Don’t Go with Tonika Johnson. Krysan has published extensively in academic and non-academic outlets\, engages with the media\, and often presents her work outside academia\, sharing with and learning from advocates\, mayors\, legislators\, housing agencies\, real estate agents\, researchers\, students of all ages\, lawyers\, library patrons\, and more.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/maria-krysan/
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SUMMARY:Roy Kinsey
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n10am CT – Center Stage \n \nRoy Kinsey is a Chicago-born rapper\, librarian\, and founder of Rapbrary—a cultural sanctuary preserving hip-hop as literature and celebrating banned books and marginalized voices. Blending archival work with sharp lyricism\, Roy uses storytelling to explore identity\, queerness\, history\, and liberation. His latest album\, Dandelions: Gods Don’t Cry\, and accompanying children’s book\, Deangelo and the Dandelion\, highlight resilience and Black joy. Roy’s work has been featured by NPR\, Chicago Tribune\, and more\, and he continues to tour\, speak\, and create across mediums\, rooted in community\, ancestry\, and the radical act of reading.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/roy-kinsey/
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SUMMARY:Scott Kenemore
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n11am CT – Plymouth Court Stage \n \nBorn in New York and educated at Kenyon College and Columbia University\, Scott Kenemore is the national bestselling author of Edge of the Wire\, The Grand Hotel\, Zombie Ohio\, and numerous other works of horror and satire. He lives in Evanston\, Illinois.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/scott-kenemore/
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SUMMARY:Tonika Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n3pm CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n \nTonika Johnson is an award-winning\, multidisciplinary social justice artist and photographer whose work explores segregation’s enduring impact on Black communities in Chicago. \nThrough her Folded Map™ Project\, UnBlocked Englewood project\, and grassroots organizing\, Tonika reclaims narratives\, space\, and power for communities long harmed by systemic racism. \nTonika is co-founder of Englewood Arts Collective\, a board member of FirstRepair\, and serves on the DCASE Cultural Advisory Council. She is a 2025 recipient of the American Red Cross Social Justice Impact Hero Award\, and a 2024 Gordon Parks Foundation Fellow\, among other accomplishments. \nLearn more at tonikaj.com and foldedmapproject.com.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/tonika-johnson/
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SUMMARY:Nancy Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n4pm CT – North Stage \n \nA native of Chicago’s South Side\, Nancy Johnson is the author of People of Means\, a story of race\, class\, and resistance in 1960s Nashville and 1992 Chicago\, released in February from William Morrow/HarperCollins. People magazine named it one of its most anticipated books for 2025\, calling it “beautifully crafted” and “propulsive.” People of Means has also been featured in Woman’s World and Real Simple magazines. \nNancy’s debut novel\, The Kindest Lie\, has been reviewed by The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, and Los Angeles Times\, and was highlighted on Entertainment Weekly’s Must List.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/nancy-johnson/
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SUMMARY:Sahan Jayasuriya
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n10am CT – North Stage \n \nSahan Jayasuriya is a Milwaukee-based music writer and musician whose obsessive love of underground music was forged in the fires of ‘90s alt radio\, Dischord releases\, and dusty bins at independent record stores. A veteran contributor to Shepherd Express and Milwaukee Magazine\, Jayasuriya has spent over a decade researching Die Kreuzen’s history—interviewing the band\, scouring archives\, and unearthing lost ephemera. When not writing about music\, Sahan plays in the slowcore outfit Good Night & Good Morning.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/sahan-jayasuriya/
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SUMMARY:Sandra Jackson-Opoku
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n10am CT – North Stage \n \nSandra Jackson-Opoku is the author of novels The River Where Blood is Born and Hot Johnny and the Women Who Loved Him. Her debut mystery\, Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes\, releases in July 2025. Jackson-Opoku’s fiction\, nonfiction\, and dramatic works are widely published and produced. Professional recognition includes a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, the American Library Association Black Caucus Award\, a Chicago Esteemed Artist Award\, an Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award\, a James Baldwin Fellowship at MacDowell Arts\, a Malice Minotaur Award for First Mystery\, and others. She presents readings and workshops nationally and worldwide.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/sandra-jackson-opoku/
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SUMMARY:Jane Hseu
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n11am CT – Grace Place Stage \n \nJane Hseu is Professor of English at Dominican University\, board member of the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame\, and core organizer for Banyan: Asian American Writers Collective. She has published personal essays and poetry and is currently at work on a memoir about a family history of mental illness. At Dominican\, she teaches racial minority US literatures and writing creative nonfiction. She regularly presents/ facilitates at venues such as the APIDA Arts Festival\, Ada Cheng’s Pour One Out storytelling series\, American Writers Festival\, and Casa de las Americas (Cuba) in order to build community and encourage storytelling for social change.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/jane-hseu-2/
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SUMMARY:Marcy Rae Henry
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n12pm CT – North Stage \n \nMarcy Rae Henry is a multidisciplinary Xicana artist originally from the Borderlands and author of death is a mariachi\, winner of the 2024 May Sarton NH Poetry Prize\, when to go to the Taj Mahal\, the body is where it all begins\, dream life of night owls\, winner of the Open Country chapbook contest\, and We Are Primary Colors. Other awards include a Chicago Community Arts Assistance Grant\, an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship\, a Pushcart nomination\, and first prize in Suburbia’s Novel Excerpt Contest. MRae is an associate editor for RHINO and a digital minimalist with no social media accounts.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/marcy-rae-henry-2/
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SUMMARY:Karen Hawkins
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n5pm CT – Plymouth Court Stage \n \nKaren Hawkins is story editor at The 19th*\, an independent\, nonprofit newsroom reporting on gender\, politics and policy. She previously served as co-publisher and editor-in-chief of the Chicago Reader. She’s the founder of Rebellious Magazine for Women and the Feminist Media Foundation\, and co-host of Of Course I’m Not OK: The Podcast and the Feminist Creatives Society. She is also training to be a life and leadership coach as Your So-Called Life Coaching.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/karen-hawkins/
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SUMMARY:Miles Harvey
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n2pm CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n \nMiles Harvey’s collection of short stories\, The Registry of Forgotten Objects (Mad Creek Books\, 2024) won the Journal Non/Fiction Prize and the Society of Midland Authors award for best work of adult fiction. His nonfiction includes The King of Confidence (Little\, Brown & Co.\, 2020) and The Island of Lost Maps (Random House\, 2000)\, a national bestseller. He teaches creative writing at DePaul University in Chicago\, where he chairs the Department of English and is of a founding editor of Big Shoulders Books\, a nonprofit\, social-justice publisher.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/miles-harvey-2/
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SUMMARY:Marguerite L. Harrold
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n1pm CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n \nMarguerite L. Harrold\, author of Chicago House Music: Culture and Community (Belt/Arcadia\, 2024)\, is a poet and writer from Chicago. Her work focuses on African American and African Diasporic poetry\, ecology\, folklore\, culture\, social justice.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/marguerite-l-harrold/
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SUMMARY:Vee L. Harrison
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n3pm CT – North Stage \n \nVeronica (Vee) Harrison is an award-winning journalist and author from Chicago’s West Side. Her work appears in publications across the entire nation\, covering and highlighting Black culture and Black narratives. Harrison is a local and international change agent\, an influencer setting the stage for new voices in Black media and communications. \nDuring the course of her career as a journalist\, she battled social structure through the lens of a Black woman raised in Austin\, Chicago’s largest\, poorest community on the city’s West Side in the 1990s. Directly after receiving her B.A. from Columbia College Chicago in 2010\, she served as a journalism instructor for inner-city youth in Chicago\, promoting news literacy and Black-owned media.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/vee-l-harrison/
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SUMMARY:Meital Hailpern
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n12pm CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n \nMeital Hailpern is a Chicago-based actor making her theatrical debut with this production. She previously worked as an extra in the film Tom of Your Life and has performed improv with The Laugh Factory. Born and raised in Chicago\, Meital discovered her passion for performance through community theater and currently studies voice with Eileen Hand. She is excited to take this next step in her acting journey and is thrilled to be making her stage debut. She thanks her family and friends for their support.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/meital-hailpern/
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SUMMARY:Ruchira Gupta
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 6th\n4pm CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage \n \nRuchira Gupta is the author of I Kick and I Fly and The Freedom Seeker\, and a lifelong activist working to end sex trafficking. An Emmy-winning documentarian\, she founded Apne Aap with survivors from her film The Selling of Innocents. Her advocacy has shaped global laws and earned her the French Ordre National du Mérite. She advises the UN\, teaches human trafficking and migration at NYU\, and writes social justice adventure books to inspire change. Through story and action\, Ruchira empowers readers and policy makers alike to build a world where every girl is safe\, free\, and valued.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/ruchira-gupta/
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SUMMARY:Thea Goodman
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 7th\n12pm CT – North Stage \n \nThea Goodman is a novelist\, poet and educator in Chicago. Her novel about a marital crisis\, The Sunshine When She’s Gone\, appeared in 2013 with Henry Holt. The Invented Mother\, poems was a finalist in the New Women’s Voices Competition 2022 and was published by Finishing Line Press in 2023. She’s at work on a collection of linked short stories.
URL:https://printersrowlitfest.org/event/thea-goodman/
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