September 12, 2026
5:00 pm, Metropolis Cafe, 1039 W Granville
READERS:
Stephanie Soileau
… is the author of Should the Waters Take Us (Doubleday, 2026) and Last One Out Shut Off the Lights (Little, Brown & Co., 2020). Her writing has appeared in Best American Short Stories, Glimmer Train, Oxford American, Ecotone, New Stories from the South, and elsewhere, and has been supported by the Wallace Stegner Fellowship, the Camargo Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of Chicago.
Michael Welch
… is the Editor-In-Chief of the Chicago Review of Books. He is the editor of On An Inland Sea: Writing the Great Lakes (Belt Publishing, 2026), and his writing has appeared in Electric Lit, LitHub, Bellevue Review, Salamander, and elsewhere.
Timothy Ashley Leo
… is the author of The Dog’s Letter (Ugly Duckling Press, 2026). His poems have appeared in Conjunctions, Narrative, Nat. Brut, The Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. He is also an editor for Dialogist and serves as a member of the house staff in surgery at the University of Chicago.
Tracy Zeman
… is the author of Interglacial (Parlor Press, 2026) and Empire (Parlor Press, 2020). Her writing has appeared in Kenyon Review, Cincinnati Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. She has earned residencies from the Sitka Center, Ox-Bow, and Write On Door County. She teaches writing at the University of Michigan and lives outside Detroit.
Kirk Schlueter
… is the author of The Resurrection of the Body (University of Tampa Press, 2026), winner of the Richard Mathews Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Ninth Letter, Diode, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Edwardsville, IL, and coaches high school tennis.
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