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Click to Enlarge - Right-Click to DownloadKristofer Collins is the longtime Books Editor for Pittsburgh Magazine. He is the co-curator of The Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series. His latest book The River Is Another Kind of Prayer: New & Selected Poems was published in 2020 by Kung Fu Treachery Press. His latest project, The Pittsburgh Book Review can be found at https://pittsburghbookreview.blogspot.com/. He lives in Stanton Heights with his wife, son and daughter.
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Michelle Stoner is the author of the poetry collection Flats and Riots, and her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Most recently, she has worked with the Westmoreland Museum of American Art and The Frick Pittsburgh on pieces that explore the intersection of poetry and visual art. Stoner holds an MFA in creative writing (poetry) from Carlow University, and currently is a poetry instructor in the Madwomen in the Attic Creative Writing Workshops. Her book, Bad Forecast, is forthcoming on Essay Press in 2024.
Michelle Stoner - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download)Fred Shaw was named Emerging Poet Laureate Finalist for Allegheny County in 2020. He is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, and Carlow University, where he received his MFA. His first collection, Scraping Away, was published by CavanKerry Press. A book reviewer and Poetry Editor for Pittsburgh Quarterly, his poem, “Argot,” is featured in the 2018 full-length documentary, Eating & Working & Eating & Working. The film focuses on the lives of local service-industry workers. His poem “Scraping Away” was selected for the PA Public Poetry Project in 2017.
Fred Shaw - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download)John Repp is a poet and fiction writer living in Erie, Pennsylvania. His most recent collections of poetry are The Soul of Rock & Roll: Poems Acoustic, Electric & Remixed, 1980-2020 (Broadstone Books) and Cold-Running Current (Alice Greene & Co.).
John Repp - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download)Jan Beatty's seventh book, American Bastard, won the Red Hen Nonfiction Award, 2021. Of her last book, The Body Wars (U. of Pgh. Press), Naomi Shihab Nye said in the New York Times: Jan Beatty’s new poems in The Body Wars shimmer with luminous connection, travel a big life and grand map of encounters. Beatty worked as a waitress, abortion counselor, and in maximum security prisons. For fifteen years, she directed creative writing at Carlow University where she ran the Madwomen in the Attic and the MFA program. Her new chapbook, Skydog, was just released from Lefty Blondie Press.
Jan Beatty - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download)Joan E. Bauer is the author of The Almost Sound of Drowning (Main Street Rag, 2008) and The Camera Artist (Turning Point, 2020). For some years, she was a teacher and counselor in public and independent schools. In 2007, she won the Earle Birney Poetry Prize from Prism International and in 2018, she was a finalist for the John Ciardi Poetry Prize from BkMk Press. Since 2001, more than 250 of her poems have been published and three have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Joan co-curates the Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series with Kristofer Collins. Her new book of poetry, Fig Season, is forthcoming from Turning Point in 2023.
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