Michael Zapata is a founding editor of MAKE Literary Magazine and the author of the novel The Lost Book of Adana Moreau, winner of the 2020 Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction, finalist for the 2020 Heartland Booksellers Award...  read

Dmitry Samarov was born in Moscow, USSR in 1970. He immigrated to the US with his family in 1978. He got in trouble in 1st grade for doodling on his Lenin Red Star pin and hasn't stopped doodling since. After...  read

Join us Tuesday, March 5 for the next edition of Tuesday Funk! The evening will feature readings by Molly Dumbleton, James Gordon, Dmitry Samarov, Mike Zapata and a fifth reader TBDr. Andrew Huff and Eden Robins cohost. Admission to Tuesday...  read

Jessi D hails from the suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona, which is just as bad as it sounds. She moved to Chicago in 2011 after falling in love with the city while visiting for Lollapalooza and has been dicking around in...  read

Over the last 25 years, Kate Harding has been an author, editor, book publicist, bookseller, and creative writing instructor—plus a semi-successful feminist blogger and unsuccessful feminist podcast host. She’s previously performed Live Lit at Tuesday Funk, You’re Being Ridiculous, and...  read