November 15, 2025
5:00 pm, Metropolis Cafe, 1039 W Granville
READERS:
Rachel Cohen
… is the author of Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels (FSG, 2020); Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade (Yale University Press, 2013); and A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists (Random House, 2004), winner of the PEN/Jerard Fund Award and a finalist for the Guardian First Book Prize. Her essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The London Review of Books, The New York Times, The Nation, and elsewhere, and have been anthologized in Best American Essays and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, MacDowell, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of Chicago.
Julie Iromuanya
… is the author of A Season of Light (Algonquin, 2025) and Mr. and Mrs. Doctor (Coffee House, 2015), a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the Etisalat Prize for Literature, and the National BookCritics Circle John Leonard Prize for Debut Fiction. She is a George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation fellow, and she was the inaugural Herbert W. Martin Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Dayton. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Chicago.
Alix Anne Shaw
… is a poet, artist, and teacher. Ze is the author of threepoetry collections: Rough Ground (Etruscan 2018), Dido in Winter (Persea, 2014), and Undertow (Persea, 2007), winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Prize. Zir poems and essays have appeared in Harvard Review, Fence, American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. Ze currently live in Milwaukee, where ze are working on a fourth manuscript, Rebewilderment.
Sandra Marchetti
… is the author of three full-length poetry collections: DIORAMA (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2025), Aisle 228 (SFASUP, 2023), and Confluence (Sundress, 2015). Her poetry and essays have appeared in The Rumpus, Pleiades, Ecotone, Southwest Review, and elsewhere. She serves as the Assistant Director of Academic Support at Harper College.
Danielle Harms
… is a multi-genre writer whose work has appeared in Conjunctions, Mid-American Review, New Letters, and American Literary Review. She is a winner of an AWP Intro Journals Award, a Bread Loaf staff scholar, and a “Notable Essays” honoree from Best American Essays. She holds a Ph.D.from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and currently teaches at Marquette University.
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