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,...  read

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...  read

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...  read

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...  read

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...  read

See you... in September... at Tuesday Funk! Chicago's favorite eclectic reading series returns to the upstairs lounge at Hopleaf on Tuesday, Sept. 3. Cohost Andrew Huff will be missing due to an out-of-town wedding, but Erin Watson will be there...  read

Our August show was lively and fun. If you didn't make it, here's what you missed! Kelly Swails led us off with an essay about exploring the city through visits to dive bars. Next, Rosamund Lannin read a portion of...  read

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....  read

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...  read

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...  read