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...  read

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...  read

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...  read

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....  read

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....  read

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...  read

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...  read

Anne K. Yoder is the author of the novel, The Enhancers, forthcoming from Meekling Press. Her fiction, essays, and criticism have appeared in Fence, BOMB, Tin House, NY Tyrant, and MAKE, and has been recognized in Best American Nonrequired Reading....  read

Robbie Q. Telfer is a writer, performer, and teaching artist in Chicago. His work has appeared in hundreds of places and yet he still feels empty inside. He’s been an individual finalist at the National Poetry Slam and has a...  read

William Harold Holbrook is a writer, teacher, and homemaker originally from Painesville, Ohio who now lives in Evanston. He is the creator and curator of The Old-Time Moan, an online gallery of orphaned and found photographs collected from flea markets...  read