Rob Macaisa Colgate (he/she/they) is a disabled bakla poet and playwright. A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts and 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow, he is the author of the poetry collection Hardly Creatures (Tin House, 2025) and the verse drama My Love is Water (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025). The managing poetry ... Read more

Saturday, September 6th 4pm CT - Center Stage Kimberly Ann Priest is the winner of the 2024 Backwaters Prize in Poetry from the University of Nebraska Press for her book Wolves in Shells, as well as the author of tether & lung (Texas Review Press) and Slaughter the One Bird (Sundress Publications). An assistant professor ... Read more

Saturday, September 6th 4pm CT - Plymouth Court Stage Jake Sheridan is a City Hall reporter for the Chicago Tribune. His work focuses on local policy, the City Council and Mayor Brandon Johnson. He is a graduate of Duke University and his previous work includes fighting social media misinformation on the Poynter Institute's MediaWise team ... Read more