Anthony Butts
Anthony Butts teaches creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University
and is the winner of the Poetry Society of America’s 2004
William Carlos Williams Award. more
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Maggie Anderson
Maggie Anderson is the author of four books of poems, most recently
Windfall: New and Select Poems, which was published in 2000. more
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Lillian Bertram
Lillian Bertram’s work has been published in various journals,
and she is also the author of the Spanish poetry collection, Tierra
Fisurada. more
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Jan Beatty
Beatty’s newest collection of poems, Boneshaker, was published
in spring, 2002, by the University of Pittsbugh Press. more
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Deborah Bogen
Deborah Bogen’s chapbook, Living by the Children’s
Cemetery, won the 2002 ByLine Press Competition (Judge Edward
Hirsch). Her most recent manuscript, Landscape with Silos,
was a finalist for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and she was a semifinalist
for the Discovery/Nation Award. more
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C.M. Burroughs hails from Atlanta, Georgia, but calls Pittsburgh
home.
She is a fellow of both Cave Canem and Callaloo.
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Michelle Bova is a student at Carnegie Mellon University, where she is pursuing a degree in creative and professional writing.
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Alexander Chen
Alexander Chen is a senior at Carnegie Mellon who is double majoring in professional writing and creative writing. more »
Emily Cleland
Emily Cleland is in the final year of her MFA at the University of
Pittsburgh, where she also teaches creative writing. more »
Dave Copeland
Dave Copeland is a recovering newspaper reporter and former columnist
who is currently pursuing an MFA at Goucher College. more
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Annabelle Clippinger
Annabelle Clippinger, Director of PITT ARTS, is
a poet and educator. She has had two books of poetry published,
Sky Frame (2000), and Cloud Banner (2002), both by publisher of
avant-garde literature, Potes & Poets Press.
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Paola Corso's first
book of poems, Death by Renaissance, is set in her native
Pittsburgh, and draws from her working-class,
Italian-American background. more »
Chingbee Cruz is the youngest poet in A Habit
of Shores, the last book in a three-volume anthology that spans
a century of Philippine poetry and verse in English. more
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Sean Thomas Dougherty
Sean Thomas Dougherty is the author of six full length books, including
the book of poems Nightshift Belonging to Lorca (2004 Mammoth Books),
and book of experimental prose, The Biography of Broken Things (2002
Mitkimitki Press). more
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Claire Donato
Sean Thomas Dougherty is the author of six full length books, including
the book of poems Nightshift Belonging to Lorca (2004 Mammoth Books),
and book of experimental prose, The Biography of Broken Things (2002
Mitkimitki Press). more
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Lynn Emmanuel
Lynn Emanuel was born in New York, and has lived, worked and traveled
in North Africa, Europe, and the Near East. She has degrees from
Bennington College, the City College of New York, and the University
of Iowa. more
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Sally Ann Flecker
Sally Ann Flecker teaches writing at the University of Pittsburgh,
where she served as the longtime editor of Pitt Magazine. more
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Sherrie Flick
Poet and fiction writer Sherrie Flick is the winner of the 2004
Flume Press Fiction Prize. Her chapbook, I Call This Flirting,
will be published by Flume Press/Chico State University in August.
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Kirsten Gay
Kirsten Gay is a fiction writer, and graduate student at Chatham College in the writing program. She is currently working on her first novel, Escape Velocity. more »
Poet and fiction writer Vince Guerrieri is a graduate
of Bowling Green State University where he majored in journalism
and history. more
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Carol Hamilton has a Ph.D. in English from the University of California at Berkeley, where she specialized in American literature, modernism and cultural politics. more »
Kristie Hamilton is finishing her undergraduate studies at Chatham College while also starting graduate work in poetry. more »
Terrance Hayes is an associate professor of creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University and the author of two award-winning poetry collections. more »
Steve Healey lives in Minneapolis, where he’s a teacher and the associate editor of Conduit Magazine. more »
Michael Jehn is a creative writing student at Carnegie Mellon University. He is uncertain about his future, but has concluded that a two-year stint at Wal-Mart may not be so very bad. more »
Paul Kameen teaches in the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh. His book of essays, Writing/Teaching, won the College Composition and Communication Outstanding Book Award for 2002. more »
Nancy Krygowski is a poet and adult literacy instructor whose work
has appeared in a number of journals. Nancy is also assistant artistic
director of the famous Gist Street Reading Series. more
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Romella D. Kitchens’ work has appeared in a number of publications,
including Essence, Catalyst, 5 AM, Ship of Fools, and The Pittsburgh
Quarterly.more
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Mary Soon Lee’s story collection, Ebb Tides and Other
Tales, was published in 2002 by Dark Regions Press. more »
Jessica Manack has returned to her hometown of Pittsburgh after
earning a BA and MFA in creative writing from Hollins University
in Roanoke, Virginia. more
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Katherine A. Mariner is a Cleveland native and senior English and
communications major finishing her undergraduate degree at Grove
City College. more
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Kimberly Manno is a domestic violence counselor by day—work
that she says inspires both her poetry and art. more
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Toby McHenry is a statistical genetics programmer at the University
of Pittsburgh. more
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West Virginia Poet Laureate Irene McKinney is the author of five
books of poetry, and her work has appeared in numerous journals,
including American Voice, Arts & Letters, The Georgia Review,
The Kenyon Review, and Poetry. more
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Sharon F. McDermott is a visiting lecturer at the University of
Pittsburgh where she teaches poetry and creative writing. more
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Marc Nieson was born in Brooklyn and has lived in Italy, Iowa,
and recently traded a cattle farm in Minnesota for asphalt in Pittsburgh.
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Ochester’s most recent books include The Land of Cockaigne,
Snow White Horses: Selected Poems 1973-1988, Cooking in Key West,
and Changing the Name to Ochester.more
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Jeffrey
Palmer
Palmer, a native of Maine, received his BA in liberal arts from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. more »
Lisa Pepper is currently working on her MFA in poetry at the University of Pittsburgh, where she teaches a course on writing and women's studies. more »
Judith Robinson is an editor, teacher, fiction writer and poet
whose work has appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers and
anthologies. more
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Jennifer A. Schnaupp
Jennifer A. Schaupp is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University where she majored in creative writing and drama. more »
Michael Schneider
Michael Schneider is a former lawyer whose
work has appeared in a number of publications,
including 5 AM, Atlanta Review, Paper
Street, and Pittsburgh Magazine. more »
Poet Scott M. Silsbe was born in Detroit. His work has appeared in prechelonian, the Notre Dame Review, and Third Coast. more »
Heather A. Slomski
Heather A. Slomski is a graduate of the creative writing program at
Penn State Erie. She is the winner of the Julia A Rebman Prize for
Fiction selected by Gary Lutz and two Penn State overseas travel grants
for literary research in Sweden and New Zealand. more »
Ellen McGrath Smith
Ellen McGrath Smith teaches writing and literature at Pitt, and has been awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize, the Zone 3 Rainmaker Award, and the HyperAge magazine Ascher Montandon Award for her poetry. more »
Sandra Sterner writes poetry and teaches creative writing at Chatham
College. Her work has appeared in Three Rivers Poetry Journal and
other publications. more
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Aaron Smith, who is the author of Blue on Blue Ground, which was
published by the University of Pittsburgh Press last year and won
the 2004 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. more
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Savannah Schrolls' essays have appeared in the European Journal
of Cultural Studies and Johns Hopkins' Modernism/Modernity.more
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Poet Thom Tammaro was born and raised in the heart of the steel valley of Western Pennsylvania. Since 1983, he has lived and worked in Minnesota He is professor of multidisciplinary studies and teaches in the English department and MFA creative writing program at Minnesota State University Moorhead. more »
Poet Gail Taylor lives and writes in Yellow Springs, Ohio where she is an adjunct professor of humanities and liberal arts at Antioch University. more »
Jeffrey Thomson directs the MFA writing program at Chatham College. His second collection of poems, The Country of Lost Sons, is due out in spring, 2004, and will inaugurate a new poetry series from Parlor Press at Purdue University. more »
Sandy Tseng is a writer of diverse worlds. She has traveled often and lived in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Her cultural sensitivity reflects Asian culture, and American values and ambitions. more »
Lynn Wagner's poems have appeared in little magazines such as Painted Bride Quarterly and Lullwater Review. more »
David Walton has taught fiction, writing, and literature at Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. more »
Marshall Warfield writes poetry and teaches at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the managing editor of nidus, Pitt's online literary arts journal. more »
Jonah Winter
Jonah Winter’s work has been compared to that of Jean Cocteau,
Joseph Cornell, and Lucille Ball. His first book of poems, Maine,
won the Slope Editions Book Prize in 2002. more
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Jeff Worley teaches at the University of Kentucky
and is the editor and chief science writer for Odssey, a UK magazine
on researc andscholarship. He has two new collections of poetry,
Leave Time, which is a chapbook focusing on his father's death from
Alzheimer's, and Happy Hour at the Two Keys Tavern, which is his
third book-length collection
of poetry.more
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