The James Theater • Iowa City, Iowa

Show starts at 7:00pm. Admission: Included with festival pass, individual tickets also available

* This show is not included in our Portland Season pass.

SG GOODMAN

Heralded as an “untamed rock 'n' roll truth-teller” by Rolling Stone, S. G. Goodman gracefully pushes out a sound that is folky yet “gritty” and layered with ethereal vocals. Goodman’s 2020 debut album Old Time Feeling, which tells a story of life in the South, was co-produced by My Morning Jacket’s frontman Jim James. Her second full length album Teeth Marks was released in 2022 which Pitchfork describes as “synthesized decades of Southern music into a singular vision.”

MORGAN PARKER

Morgan Parker is the author of young adult novel Who Put This Song On?; and the poetry collections Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, and Magical Negro, which won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award. Parker is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a Pushcart Prize, and a Cave Canem graduate fellow. Her debut book of essays, You Get What You Pay For, traces the difficulty and beauty of existing as a Black woman through American history, from the foundational trauma of the slave trade all the way up to Serena Williams and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

CARMEN MARIA MACHADO

Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the best-selling memoir In the Dream House and the award-winning-short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. She is also the co-editor of "Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games," a collection of essays in which the writer-gamers find solace from illness and grief, test ideas about language, bodies, power, race, and technology, and see their experiences and identities reflected in―or complicated by―the interactive virtual worlds they inhabit.

SIMON SHIEH

Simon Shieh is a Taiwanese American poet and essayist. He is the co-founder Spittoon Literary Magazine, which translates the best new Chinese writing into English. From 2008-2014 he competed as an amateur and professional Muay Thai fighter in China, Brazil, Argentina, Thailand, and the U.S. "Master: Poems", his first collection of poetry, follows the speaker’s struggle with masculinity from a martial arts school in upstate New York to a boxing academy in Beijing. The collection was the winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize and is a finalist for the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Prize.