Young Chicago Authors
Location 1180 N. Milwaukee Chicago, IL 60642 Phone (773) 486-4331 Website www.youngchicagoauthor...
Young Chicago Authors: Home of Louder Than a Bomb
Young Chicago Authors (YCA), located in Noble Square (1800 N. Milwaukee Avenue), was founded in 1991 by Dr. Robert S. Boone, and focuses on amplifying voices through writing, publication, and perfor...
The F***cking Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmmanuel
...Authors). The F***cking Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmmanuel is Sinker's entire Twitter feed in book form, with a forward by Biz Stone. Wired called it "the first truly great piece of literat...
Printers Row Lit Fest
...authors, performers and presenters participating in a variety of programs.
Affordable housing
Table Of Contents- Definitions Statistics Agencies Definitions- Affordable Housing- Affordable housing may only mean subsidized or public housing whereas in other cases it may...
Robbie Q. Telfer
...Authors for a very long time and also, and a head organizer at Louder Than a Bomb, the largest youth-based poetry slam in the world. He is the author of two full-length poetry collections, My Huge Hea...
Eula Biss
A former New York City public school teacher, writer Eula Biss currently teaches creative nonfiction at Northwestern University. She is the author of three books, The Balloonists; Notes from No Man’...
Lindsay Hunter
The author of the story collections Daddy's (featherproof books) and Don't Kiss Me (FSG), and the novel Ugly Girls (FSG), Lindsay Hunter is a Florida native who now lives in Chicago with her...
Rick Perlstein
Rick Perlstein, a journalist born in Milwaukee, is the author of three books, The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and Rise of Reagan, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of Ame...
Memory Palaces
Memory Palaces is a book about queer community in Chicago. Edie Fake reimagines bars, bathhouses, bookstores, clinics, and performance spaces in ballpoint pen and gouache, as hyper-patterned and col...
The House on Mango Street
The House on Mango Street is the coming-of-age story of Esperanza Cordero, who lives in an underserved Latin neighborhood in 1960s Chicago. The author, Sandra Cisneros, tells Esperanza's story i...
Rogers Park
...authors they love. Many publications are delicate as nests, and come in postcard, compact disc, or marbleized forms. Many of these titles are available at the Armadillo’s Pillow (6753 N. Sheridan Road...
Kevin Coval
...Authors, a nonprofit encouraging self-expression and literacy among Chicago youth through reading, writing, and performance. His books include Schtick, L-Vis Lives!: Racemusic Poems, Everyday People, ...
Adam Levin
Adam Levin grew up on the North Shore of Chicago and is the author of two books, both published by McSweeney’s—Hot Pink, a story collection, and the novel The Instructions, which takes place over fo...
avery r. young
...Authors, Rebirth Poetry Ensemble, Freewrite Jail Arts, and Chicago Public Schools, young mentors youth in neighborhoods all across the city, with love, stories, and time. be blk.
Marty McConnell
Marty McConnell, poet, performer, oracle, and organizer, is also the author of the book wine for a shotgun (EM Press) and many poems including “Frida Kahlo to Marty McConnell.” These are widely publ...
Britteny Black Rose Kapri
...Authors at the National Poetry Slam in 2009, and works with them as a Teaching Artist Corps Member today. Kapri is a two-time Louder Than a Bomb Haiku Slam Champion, a member of the Not Enough Mics Co...
A Church Beneath the Bulldozer
...Authors, has performed these poems at the Chicago, Steppenwolf, Vic, and Victory Gardens theaters, TEDX Chicago, and the Chicago Jazz Festival (among others).
From the Back of the Bus
From the Back of the Bus is a book by comedian and social activist Dick Gregory. He was drafted into the army in 1954, where his commanding officer encouraged him to enter base talent shows as a com...
Li-Young Lee
Li-Young Lee was born in Djakarta in 1957, and is the son of Chinese political exiles. In Djakarta, his father helped found Gamaliel University but as anti-Chinese sentiment grew he was arrested and...
