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Meet Our Readers: Connor Coyne

Connor Coyne (he/him) is a writer living and working in Flint, Michigan. Connor has published several novels and a short story collection, including the magical serial novel Urbantasm, and his novella Hollywood. His work has been featured in Vox.com, Belt Magazine, and elsewhere. He is the director of

Participants Reading #147

Meet Our Readers: Gina Twardosz

Gina Twardosz's work is exceedingly personal, often satirical, and with an eye cast to the side for the strange or whimsical. She often writes about herself to reach other people, mining her trauma to create a robust emotional vocabulary that others may use to process their own emotional

Participants Reading #147

Meet Our Readers: Holly M. Wendt

Holly M. Wendt is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Lebanon Valley College and the author of Heading North (Braddock Avenue Books, 2023). Wendt is a recipient of the Robert and Charlotte Baron Fellowship for Creative and Performing Artists from the American Antiquarian Society and fellowships from the

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Meet Our Readers: Lillian Stone

Lillian Stone is a reporter, humor writer, and the author of Everybody's Favorite, a funny and disgusting essay collection published in 2023. She’s a frequent contributor to outlets including Slate, BBC Worklife, and GQ. On the humor side, she's a headline and features contributor for

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Meet Our Readers: Daniel Kraus

Daniel Kraus is a New York Times bestselling writer of novels, TV, and film. His latest novel, Whalefall, received a front-cover rave review in the New York Times Book Review, won the Alex Award, and is a LA Times Book Prize Finalist. With Guillermo del Toro, he co-authored

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Meet Our Readers: Jennifer Schaefer

Jennifer Schaefer is a fiction writer whose work has appeared in: North American Review, Chicago Tribune, Barstow & Grand, Curbside Splendor, The Matador Review, Zouch Magazine, Akashic Books' flash fiction series, and Tortoise Books' anthology. She also received an Honorable Mention from Glimmer Train and a Special Mention

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Meet Our Readers: Sarah Kokernot

Sarah Kokernot’s writing has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The New York Times, Michigan Quarterly Review, Crazyhorse, Front Porch, West Branch, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and other publications. She is currently finishing her first novel.  Originally from Kentucky, she lives outside of Chicago with her family.

Participants Reading #146

Meet Our Readers: Robert Vetter

Robert Vetter is a writer and performer, most recently performing with Little Miss Anthropes, a drag standup pageant, at The Lincoln Lodge. His work has been published by or is forthcoming in McSweeney’s, The AutoEthnographer, The New Absurdist, The Museum of Americana Literary Review, and more. Please join Robert

Participants Reading #145

Meet Our Readers: Gina DeLuca

Gina DeLuca is an essayist, satirist and cartoonist who has been performing in Chicago for the last 13 years. She recently graduated with her MFA in nonfiction writing from Washington University in St. Louis, and is an Assistant Editor for the humor column at The Rumpus. Her work has been

Participants Reading #145

Meet Our Readers: James Gordon

James Gordon is an award winning actor, author, and poet, as well as a champion Storyteller.  James can be seen on episodes of Chicago Fire, Chicago Med, The G, Background Extras, Quick 2 Judge, and the theatrical productions Ides of March and God Do You Know Me. Please join James

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Meet Our Readers: Molia Dumbleton

Molia Dumbleton’s work has appeared in The Sun Magazine, Ecotone, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, and elsewhere; been awarded honors including Ireland's Seán Ó Faoláin International Story Prize, the Columbia Journal Winter Fiction Prize, and a Peter Taylor Fellowship from the Kenyon Review. She’s been

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Meet Our Readers: Michael Zapata

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 in Fiction, and a Best Book of the Year for

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Meet Our Readers: Dmitry Samarov

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 a false start at Parsons School of Design

Participants Reading #144

Meet Our Readers: Jessi D

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 the Midwest ever since. She's been on the

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Meet Our Readers: Kate Harding

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 the dearly departed That’s All

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Meet Our Readers: Elizabeth Gomez

Do you like foul mouthed loud ass mixed race queer bitches? Then you'll love Elizabeth Gomez. Her brash sense of humor reflects how much she was ignored as a child. She is a writer, podcaster, performer, and desperate for attention so sign up for her substack newsletter Mixed

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Meet Our Readers: James Finn Garner

James Finn Garner has been performing at events around Chicago for 15 years, and is very happy to be back at Tuesday Funk. He is the author of the best-selling Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, as well as the seminal clown noir mystery series starring “Rex Koko, Private Clown.” You

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Meet Our Readers: Britt Julious

Britt Julious is a writer, editor, essayist, and storyteller focusing on subjects that intersect the worlds of art, culture, race, feminism and politics. A firm believer in the underground, the avant-garde and the underdog, Britt currently serves as the music critic for the Chicago Tribune. As a freelance journalist,

Participants Reading #143

Meet Our Readers: Jasmine Davila

Jasmine Davila is the co-host of Miss Spoken, a lady-centric live lit performance on the last Wednesday of the month at Gallery Cabaret. Jasmine has read in venues small and medium sized for shows such as Funny Ha Ha, Feminist Happy Hour, Tuesday Funk, 20x2, and Essay Fiesta.

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Meet Our Readers: Hannah Gamble

Hannah Gamble is a writer, director, and spiritual practitioner. Gamble has two poetry collections: Your Invitation to a Modest Breakfast and The Traditional Feel of the Ballroom. Their web series, Choose Me: An Abortion Story, premiered in 2020, and won awards from the Montreal Independent Film Festival and the Miami

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Meet Our Readers: Juan Martinez

Juan Martinez is the author of the novel Extended Stay (2023) and the story collection Best Worst American (2017). He lives near Chicago and is an associate professor at Northwestern University. His work has appeared in McSweeney's, Huizache, Ecotone, The Sunday Morning Transport, NIGHTMARE, NPR's Selected

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Meet Our Readers: Kay Daly

This Kay Daly is not the gun-toting Republican who failed in her bid for representative of the 13th Congressional District of North Carolina in 2016. She is not the pioneering female advertising copywriter and inspiration for Mad Men’s Peggy Olson. Regrettably, she is not the president of the

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Meet Our Readers: Gint Aras

Gint Aras has been trapped on planet earth since 1973. He's an award winning and anthologized author whose works include the novels Finding the Moon in Sugar and The Fugue, and the memoir Relief by Execution: A Visit to Mauthausen. His short prose and translations have appeared in

Participants Nighthawk Chicago

Meet Our Readers: Andrew Huff

Andrew Huff has been a PR professional, a journalist, the editor and publisher of Gapers Block, a professional blogger for a ghost hunter "reality" show, and host of 20x2 Chicago, a show in which 20 interesting people have two minutes each to answer one question. He's

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Meet Our Readers: Eden Robins

Eden Robins loves novels best, but they take forever so she also writes short stories and self-absorbed essays. Her first novel, WHEN FRANNY STANDS UP, is coming out November 1st! She co-hosts a science podcast called No Such Thing As Boring with an actual scientist and this very