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...  read

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...  read

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...  read

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...  read

Kathryn Kruse is the director of Residency on the Farm, an interdisciplinary artists’ residency program. In February her collection of short stories, To Receive My Services You Must Be Dying and Alone, is debuting from Jackleg Press. Her work has...  read

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...  read

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...  read

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...  read

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...  read

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...  read