Programs for the 2024 Printers Row Lit Fest will take place on Saturday, September 7 and Sunday, September 8

75+ programs across 7 different indoor and outdoor stages
From 10am – 6pm

Click here to see this year’s schedule
https://printersrowlitfest.org/schedule-grid-2024/

All programs are free and open to the public

Seating is on a first come basis

Headliner: Tracy K. Smith

Having served as US Poet Laureate from 2017-19, Tracy K. Smith is the author of five books of poetry: Such Color: New and Selected Poems; Wade in the Water, winner of the 2019 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry; Life on Mars, which received the 2012 Pulitzer Prize; Duende, recipient of the 2006 James Laughlin Award, and The Body’s Question, which won the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Professor of English and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and the Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. She is also the recipient of this year’s Harold Washington Literary Award.

Featuring:
Samira Ahmed
Christian Aldana
Ignatius Valentine Aloysius
Izidora Angel
Erisa Apantaku
Gint Aras
Heather Augustyn
Ben Austen
Diego Báez
Peter C. Baker
Ximena N. Beltran Quan Kiu
Mitchell Bisschop
Juneau Black
R. Derek Black
Kathleen Blackburn
Nora Brooks Blakely
Gayle Brandeis
Michael Burke
Nancy Burke
Gerald Butters
Eiren Caffall
Susanna Calkins
Bonnie Jo Campbell
Rev. Amity Carrubba
Paula Carter
Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Jeanie Chung
Tracy Clark
Garnett Kilberg Cohen
Gregory Collins
Sara Connell
Sarah Conway
Call Itta Draw
Peter Coviello
Giano Cromley
Carlos Cumpián
Avery Cunningham
Kerry Daimid
Kevin Davis
Janice Deal
Claudia Dey
Patricia Carlos Dominguez
Rita Dove
David Ellis
Monica E Eng
Joan Esposito
Kasey Evans
Michelle Falkoff
Matt Faries
David Faris
Emily Farris
Eileen Favorite
Josephine Ferorelli
Luz Magdaleno Flores
Kim Coleman Foote
Gina Frangello
David Friend
Gina Gamboa
Alex A Garcia
Amina Gautier
Sarah Geis
Sarah Gerard
Reginald Gibbons
April Gibson
Jason Goff
Erica Griffin
Kate Harding
Gavin Harper
Miles Harvey
Bill Healy
Cristina Henríquez
Marcy Rae Henry
Faylita Hicks
Ashley Honeysett
Keisha Howard
Anna Hozian
Jane Hseu
Renaldo Hudson
Lindsay Hunter
Scoop Jackson
Mark Jacob
Sarah Jaffe
Archy Jamjun
Sloane Johnson
Valerie C. Johnson, Ph.D.
Jim Joyce
Meghan Elizabeth Kallman
Jack Keilman
Emily Kellogg
Abby Kieffer
Crystal Hana Kim
Meg Kissinger
Rick Kogan
Marianna Kontos
Daniel Kraus
Yohance Lacour
LaTanya Lane
Joan Larkin
Mark Larson
Shayla Lawson
Priscilla Layne
Amy Leach
Daniel Lefferts
Ananda Lima
Irene Lo
Claire Lombardo
Steve Macek
Shawntelle Madison
Thomas Maier
Rebecca Makkai
Gordon Mantler
Juan Martinez
David Masciotra
Adrian Matejka
Christine Maul Rice
Jared Mayer
Marty McConnell
Ann McGlinn
Elizabeth McKenzie
Ethan Michaeli
Cristina Mittermeier
Jose-Luis Moctezuma
Faisal Mohyuddin
Natalie Y. Moore
Zak Mucha
Simone Muench
Dipika Mukherjee
Samhita Mukhopadhyay
Jarrett Neal
Jamie Nesbitt Golden
Arionne Nettles
Paul Nicklen
Martha C Nussbaum
Ugochi Nwaogwugwu
Olivia Obineme
Uche Okonkwo
Jeremy Owens
Janika Oza
Raul Palma
Kevin Pang
Sara Paretsky
Elise Paschen
Corrbette Pasko
Frances de Pontes Peebles
Cynthia Pelayo
Audrey Petty
Carolyn Pfeiffer
PHENOM Universal & MasterMine of EmceeSkool
Alta L. Price
Vincent Proce
Ruben Quesada
Daniel Rachel
Lori Rader-Day
Jessica Nirvana Ram
Pablo E. Ramirez
Mitzi Rapkin
trina reynolds-tyler
Kenyatta Rogers
Kathleen Rooney
Veronica Roth
Judy Royko
Francesca Royster
Jacob Saenz
Bill Savage
Suzanne Scanlon
Barbara Scharres
Lynn Schmeidler
Mary Schmich
Skyler Schrempp
Daniel Schulman
Donna Seaman
Harrison Sherrod
Dick Simpson
Callie Siskel
Sandra Steinbrecher
Heidi Stevens
James Stewart III
Megan Stielstra
Louise Story
Jerry Strub
Dan “Sully” Sullivan
Terese Svoboda
Rachel Swearingen
Thomas Swick
Rich Swierzewski
Ben Tanzer
Sonali Dev
Steven Thrasher
Marisa Tirado
Elizabeth Todd-Breland
Angela (Angie) Trudell Vasquez
Billy Tuggle
Nicol Turner Lee
Luis Alberto Urrea
Cyn Vargas
Sammie Virella
James Warren
Laura Washington
Michael Weinstein
Michele Weldon
Cassandra West
Theodore Wheeler
Jackie K. White
Phillip B. Williams
Jeremy T. Wilson
John K. Wilson
Rachel Wiseman
S.L. Wisenberg
Caroline Woods
Amy Yee
avery r. young
Kate Yun
Chad the Bird
Michael Zapata
Angel Zhao
Matteo Zito

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