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Pilsen Community Books welcomes Exhibit B back to the store for the latest installment of their reading series featuring Noa Micaela Fields, Daisy Hernández, Sahar Mustafah and Raghav Rao.

Noa Micaela Fields is an echodeviant enjambment queen (translation: trans poet with hearing aids) in search of the hypervivid in her one and only captionless life. No worries, she'll write the captions herself.

Fields is the author of E (Nightboat Books, 2026), an alterbook embracing mishearing as a subversive technology of transformation. Among other places, her words have glitch-materialized in Anomaly, Zoeglossia, Ghost City Press, Jacket2, Literary Hub, Oxford University Press, Poem of the Day, Sixty Inches from Center, Tripwire, and Tyger Quarterly, as well as various zines and ephemera.

Raghav Rao is the author of MISSY (Penguin Random House - Hera Books, UK & Commonwealth, Penguin Random House - Vintage Books, India, and Triquarterly Books, Northwestern University Press, North America). He teaches Creative Writing at The University of Chicago. He grew up in Southern India, Los Angeles, and London. He enjoys bird-watching, playing squash, and biking the lakefront trail. He writes a newsletter on information saturation.

Daisy Hernández is the author of Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth, which Booklist in a starred review calls “an essential book for these contentious times.” She is also the author of The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease, which won the 2022 PEN /Jean Stein Book Award and was selected as an inaugural title for the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature Program. She is the author of the acclaimed memoir A Cup of Water Under My Bed and coeditor of the feminist anthology Colonize This! She is an Associate Professor at Northwestern University.

Sahar Mustafah is an award-winning Palestinian American author of The Slightest Green, The Beauty of Your Face, and Code of the West. Her recent fiction is featured in Stories from the Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction; The View from Gaza published in The Massachusetts Review; and Redline: Chicago Horror Stories. Mustafah writes and teaches outside of Chicago.