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 millennial side hustle grind for the last few years, leading the podcast production department at community radio station CHIRP Radio, operating a vintage food truck that served fancy doughnuts, running a latte art training program for a restaurant group, writing copy for a mid-size local coffee roasting company, and DJing weddings where she regularly tells someone's drunk uncle that that no, she will not play Frank Sinatra right after "Get Low." Her most prized freelance gig was bartending a Studio 54-themed funeral. In her spare time, she loves cooking, wandering around cemeteries, and trying new hot sauces.

Please join Jessi and our other amazing readers on Tuesday, February 6, 2024 in the upstairs bar at Hopleaf. Doors open at 7pm, and the show starts at 7:30. It's free, and 21-and-over. Please RSVP on Facebook.

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 She Wrote, among others. She holds an MFA in fiction and a PhD in Narrative Nonfiction, which she mentions in every bio because they are otherwise of vanishingly little use. Similarly, she’d like you to know she once held the title of “Distinguished Visiting Writer” for three and a half weeks. She’ll be teaching a graduate nonfiction workshop at Northwestern this spring, but most of the time, you can find her at Bookends & Beginnings in Evanston, where she’s the Events Manager.

Please join Kate and our other amazing readers on Tuesday, February 6, 2024 in the upstairs bar at Hopleaf. Doors open at 7pm, and the show starts at 7:30. It's free, and 21-and-over. Please RSVP on Facebook.

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 Race Tape.

Please join Elizabeth and our other amazing readers on Tuesday, February 6, 2024 in the upstairs bar at Hopleaf. Doors open at 7pm, and the show starts at 7:30. It's free, and 21-and-over. Please RSVP on Facebook.

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 can browse the weird warehouse of his mind at jamesfinngarner.com

Please join James and our other amazing readers on Tuesday, February 6, 2024 in the upstairs bar at Hopleaf. Doors open at 7pm, and the show starts at 7:30. It's free, and 21-and-over. Please RSVP on Facebook.

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, she has written for Pitchfork, Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour, The Cut, the New York Times and many others. In 2023, Britt was an inaugural fellow of the University of Chicago’s Critic’s Table. She is also a recipient of the Studs Terkel award in journalism for her work spotlighting underserved communities. She is currently working on a book project and a podcast.

Please join Britt and our other amazing readers on Tuesday, February 6, 2024 in the upstairs bar at Hopleaf. Doors open at 7pm, and the show starts at 7:30. It's free, and 21-and-over. Please RSVP on Facebook.

The weather is very wintery, but it's warm inside by the live lit. Join us Tuesday, Feb. 6 for the next edition of Tuesday Funk! The evening will feature readings by Jessi D, Kate Harding, Britt Julious, Elizabeth Gomez and James Finn Garner. Andrew Huff and Eden Robins cohost.

Admission to Tuesday Funk is always free, but you must be 21 to attend. Doors open at 7pm sharp (tables tend to fill up fast, so don't be late!) and the show will start at 7:30pm. Please RSVP on Facebook, and while you're there, go ahead like and follow us so you get our announcements in your news stream.

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. She tweets, tumbls, and instagrams as @jasmined.

Please join Jasmine and our other amazing readers on Tuesday, January 2, 2024 in the upstairs bar at Hopleaf. Doors open at 7pm, and the show starts at 7:30. It's free, and 21-and-over. Please RSVP on Facebook.

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 Independent Film Festival, among others. Currently, Gamble is developing a new web series about underground queer living room party culture in the midst of a big city apocalypse.

Please join Hannah and our other amazing readers on Tuesday, January 2, 2024 in the upstairs bar at Hopleaf. Doors open at 7pm, and the show starts at 7:30. It's free, and 21-and-over. Please RSVP on Facebook.

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 Shorts, Mississippi Review and elsewhere.

Please join Juan and our other amazing readers on Tuesday, January 2, 2024 in the upstairs bar at Hopleaf. Doors open at 7pm, and the show starts at 7:30. It's free, and 21-and-over. Please RSVP on Facebook.

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 Betty White Fan Club. This is a simpler Kay Daly, a purer one, perhaps. This is the Kay Daly who loves Chicago, hangs with her husband, pets her cats, works as an editor at an education nonprofit, has a Ph.D. but doesn’t go by “doctor,” and hopes to publish a novel someday. Go easy on her.

Please join Kay and our other amazing readers on Tuesday, January 2, 2024 in the upstairs bar at Hopleaf. Doors open at 7pm, and the show starts at 7:30. It's free, and 21-and-over. Please RSVP on Facebook.