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OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND LIVE STREAMING | Jennifer Chang, Rachel Cohen, and Rebecca Makkai will read from their recent books as part of the Writers Reading series.

Jennifer Chang is the author of The History of Anonymity and Some Say the Lark, which received the 2018 William Carlos Williams Award. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including American Poetry Review, The Believer, Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, A Public Space, and Yale Review and has been honored with fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Elizabeth Murray Artists Residency and with the Levinson Prize from Poetry magazine. She is the poetry editor of New England Review and teaches at the University of Texas in Austin. Her third book of poems, An Authentic Life, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Rachel Cohen is the author of three books of nonfiction, most recently Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels, which was published by FSG in 2020 to critical acclaim. Her essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The London Review of Books, and The New York Times, among other publications, and her work has been included in Best American Essays and Pushcart Prize anthologies. She is Professor of Practice in the Arts in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Chicago. Photo by Vidura Jang Bahadur.

Rebecca Makkai is the author of The New York Times bestselling I Have Some Questions for You, as well as the novels The Great Believers (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal), The Borrower, and The Hundred-Year House, and the story collection Music for Wartime. A Guggenheim Fellow, Rebecca teaches at Northwestern University and Middlebury College, and is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago.