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Meet the Readers: Veronica Arreola

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Meet the Readers: Veronica Arreola

Veronica Arreola is a professional feminist, women’s sports evangelist, and writer, her book, J is for Justice: An Activism Alphabet, hopes to inspire young people to identify needs in their communities and work together to dream creative solutions. You can also find her on Bluesky and Instagram at veronica

Meet the Readers: Tanner McSwain

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Meet the Readers: Tanner McSwain

Tanner McSwain is a writer and bookseller originally from North Carolina. He has owned Uncharted Books, a used and rare bookstore in Chicago, since 2012. Please join Tanner and our other great readers on Tuesday, December 3, 2024 in the upstairs bar at Hopleaf. Doors open at 7pm, and the

Meet the Readers: Sara McHenry

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Meet the Readers: Sara McHenry

Sara McHenry is a tall sad person who was born in Indiana and moved to Illinois, just like Abraham Lincoln. She’s also a writer, who you may know from her zine, Hard to Love, or from her (uncredited) contributions to Clickhole in its heyday. You’ve almost certainly seen

Meet the Readers: Nestor Gomez

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Meet the Readers: Nestor Gomez

Nestor Gomez was born in Guatemala and traveled to Chicago undocumented in the mid '80s. He told his first story at a Moth Story Slam to get over the stuttering that plagued his childhood; since then he has won more than 80 Moth Slams. Nestor has performed and conducted

Meet the Readers: Faisal Mohyuddin

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Meet the Readers: Faisal Mohyuddin

Faisal Mohyuddin is the author of Elsewhere: An Elegy (Next Page Press, 2024), The Displaced Children of Displaced Children, (Eyewear, 2018), and the chapbook The Riddle of Longing (Backbone Press, 2017). His recent work appears in Poetry, The Poetry Review (UK), Jet Fuel Review, Pleiades, and the anthologies Poetry Unbound:

Meet the Readers: Laaura Goldstein

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Meet the Readers: Laaura Goldstein

Laaura Goldstein's first collection of poetry, loaded arc, was released by Trembling Pillow Press in 2013 and their second collection, awesome camera was published by Make Now Press in 2014. They have also published several chapbooks with vibrant small presses across the country as well. They began their

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Meet the Readers: PJ Gray

PJ Gray has been seen storytelling at 2nd Story, Nestor Gomez's 80 Minutes Around the World, Sidetrack's Outspoken, Drinkers with Writing Problems, and Serving the Sentence to name a few. His varied writing career has included cookbook publishing, television writing and low comprehension fiction for struggling

Meet the Readers: Steve Bellinger

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Meet the Readers: Steve Bellinger

Steve Bellinger was born and raised on the West Side of Chicago by a single mom who worked nights for a printing company. She would bring home books and magazines to encourage him to read. This is how he discovered Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke and the other

Meet the Readers: Sondra Morin

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Meet the Readers: Sondra Morin

Writer. Poet. Bicyclist. New Englander by Trade. Sondra Morin is an alumna of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and the Juniper Writing Institute. She is published in The Rumpus, vis a tergo, SIMILAR : PEAKS ::, Curbside Splendor, among others, and is an Uptown Poetry Slam Champion. She has a poetry chapbook, Inviting

Meet the Readers: Hallie Palladino

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Meet the Readers: Hallie Palladino

Hallie Palladino is playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and original co-founder of Tuesday Funk in 2008. She has written plays about everything from fraudulent tech start-ups to a fictionalized account of the Cambridge Analytica data heist. Her most recent play The Cleanup, was a sex comedy about burnt-out parents hooking up after

Meet the Readers: Kate Harding

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Meet the Readers: Kate Harding

Kate Harding is the author of Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and co-editor with Samhita Mukhopadhyay of Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America. She has both an MFA and a PhD she’s not currently using, but she’s taught creative writing

Meet the Readers: Kemi Alabi

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Meet the Readers: Kemi Alabi

Kemi Alabi is the author of Against Heaven (Graywolf Press, 2022), selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award. The collection was a Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist, Chicago Review of Books Award winner, and one of New York Public Library’s Best

Meet the Readers: Ryan Varadi

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Meet the Readers: Ryan Varadi

Ryan Varadi is a midwestern poet living in Chicago, where he writes on the train on the way to work his retail job. He holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and a BA in English from Northwestern University. He served as editorial staff for

Meet the Readers: Ada Cheng

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Meet the Readers: Ada Cheng

An educator-turned storyteller, creator, and producer, Dr. Ada Cheng has utilized storytelling to illustrate structural inequities, raise critical awareness, and build intimate communities. Committed to amplifying and uplifting marginalized voices, she has created numerous storytelling platforms for BIPOC and LGBTQIA community members to tell difficult and vulnerable stories. Dr. Cheng

Meet the Readers: Jitesh Jaggi

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Meet the Readers: Jitesh Jaggi

Jitesh Jaggi ended his career in finance one day when he lost all his data that he forgot to save on an Excel sheet and realized that he just didn’t care. That tipping point led to him becoming a storyteller. He is a four-time The Moth StorySlam winner and

Rosamund Lannin

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Meet the Readers: Rosamund Lannin

Rosamund Lannin reads and writes in Chicago. Her work has appeared in places like Strange Horizons, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Tor.com, and Vice. She's currently querying a novel about live action roleplaying and the nature of fantasy. If you're an agent, she'

Meet the Readers: Kelly Swails

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Meet the Readers: Kelly Swails

Kelly Swails is a childless cat lady who works in academic publishing. She's published several short stories, novels, and comic books in the speculative fiction space and has also dipped her toes into the world of the personal essay. In her free time she watches movies and hangs

Meet the Readers: Sondra Morin

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Meet the Readers: Sondra Morin

Writer. Poet. Bicyclist. New Englander by Trade. Sondra Morin is an alumna of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and the Juniper Writing Institute. She is published in The Rumpus, vis a tergo, SIMILAR : PEAKS ::, Curbside Splendor, among others, and is an Uptown Poetry Slam Champion. She has a poetry chapbook, Inviting

Meet the Readers: Lauren Emily Whalen

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Meet the Readers: Lauren Emily Whalen

Lauren Emily Whalen is the author of I Heart Jennifer Coolidge: A Celebration of Your Favorite Pop Culture Icon, as well as the novels Tomorrow & Tomorrow (a scary-sexy Macbeth retelling co-written with Lillah Lawson), Take Her Down, Two Winters and Satellite, and the nonfiction books Dealing with Drama and

Meet Our Readers: Edward McClelland

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Meet Our Readers: Edward McClelland

Edward McClelland is a contributing editor at Chicago magazine and the author of How to Speak Midwestern. He will be reading from his new book Chorus of the Union: How Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas Set Aside Their Rivalry to Save the Nation. Please join Ted and our other fantastic

Meet Our Readers: C. Russell Price

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Meet Our Readers: C. Russell Price

C. Russell Price is a Lambda Fellow, Ragdale Fellow, Windy City Times 30 Under 30 honoree, and a two-time Lit City Top 50 Writers of Chicago honoree. They are the author of Tonight, We Fuck the Trailer Park Out of Each Other and Oh, You Thought This Was A Date?

Meet Our Readers: James Kennedy

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Meet Our Readers: James Kennedy

James Kennedy is the author of the horror thriller Bride of the Tornado, which the Chicago Tribune named as one of their "Top 10 Books of 2023." James's previous books include the sci-fi novel Dare To Know, dubbed by the Times Saturday Review as the "

Meet Our Readers: Kate Lechler

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Meet Our Readers: Kate Lechler

Kate Lechler is a queer writer, editor, and educator who recently moved to Chicago from the otherworldly town of Oxford, Mississippi. They have too many hobbies, among them cooking, karaoke, and foraging for mushrooms, and will talk to you at length about bad TV or the best ways to deflesh

Meet Our Readers: Kathleen Rooney

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Meet Our Readers: Kathleen Rooney

Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, a nonprofit publisher of literary work in hybrid genres, and a founding member of Poems While You Wait, a team of poets and their typewriters who compose commissioned poetry on demand. She is the author of the novels Lillian Boxfish

Meet Our Readers: Chris Sweet

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Meet Our Readers: Chris Sweet

Chris Sweet has worked on the overnight cleanup crew at Inland Cold Storage - restacking fallen pallets of canned goods and swabbing up the pasta sauce; sold Fuller Brush door to door; sorted mail; operated an adding machine as an insurance underwriter; taught high school English and a little college