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Details to come! Find out more about past festivals and participants on our sister website LITLUZ.ORG
Held each fall in Chicago and each February in Mexico City, the Lit & Luz Festival is a unique series of readings, discussions, and performances featuring renowned authors from the United States and Mexico. The festival highlights new translations and artistic collaborations that promote contemporary literature from both countries.
Begun in 2014, the Lit & Luz Festival grew out of the pages of MAKE magazine’s Intercambio portfolio. This Spanish-language cultural exchange has appeared in every issue since its debut in 2012 and has featured over 40 writers to date, many in English translation for the first time.
Lit & Luz is produced by MAKE Literary Productions, NFP.
Managing Director: Nuria Sheehan Co-directors: Sarah Dodson and Brenda Lozano Artistic Director: Gerardo Cárdenas Associate Artistic Directors: Daniel Borzutzky, Joel Craig, and Ireri Rivas Media Director: Jennifer Patiño Cervantes Production and Logistics: Stephanie Manriquez
Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Richard H. Driehaus Foundation DCASE
Lit & Luz partners include the University of Chicago’s Katz’s Center for Mexican Studies, Northwestern University’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Center for the Writing Arts at Northwestern, contratiempo, Loyola University’s Latin American and Latino/a Studies Program and The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, School of the Art Institute Chicago, Poetry Foundation, 7Vientos Books, Roosevelt University, Sector 2337, Ugly Duckling Presse and Señal, ACRE, and Asymptote Journal.
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MAKE Magazine Publisher MAKE Literary Productions Managing Editor Chamandeep Bains Assistant Managing Editor and Web Editor Kenneth Guay Fiction Editor Kamilah Foreman Nonfiction Editor Jessica Anne Poetry Editor Joel Craig Intercambio Poetry Editor Daniel Borzutzky Intercambio Prose Editor Brenda Lozano Latin American Art Portfolio Editor Alejandro Almanza Pereda Reviews Editor Mark Molloy Portfolio Art Editor Sarah Kramer Creative Director Joshua Hauth, Hauthwares Webmaster Johnathan Crawford Proofreader/Copy Editor Sarah Kramer Associate Fiction Editors LC Fiore, Jim Kourlas, Kerstin Schaars Contributing Editors Kyle Beachy, Steffi Drewes, Katie Geha, Kathleen Rooney Social Media Coordinator Jennifer De Poorter
MAKE Literary Productions, NFP Co-directors, Sarah Dodson and Joel Craig
