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Kristofer 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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Paola Corso’s fiction and poetry books are set in her native Pittsburgh where her Italian immigrant family members were steelworkers. Her books include The Laundress Catches Her Breath, winner of the Tillie Olsen Award in Creative Writing and Once I Was Told the Air Was Not for Breathing, a Triangle Fire Memorial Association Awardee. Her latest is Vertical Bridges: Poems and Photographs of City Steps. She is co-founder of Steppin Stanzas, a grant-awarded poetry and performance project celebrating Pittsburgh public stairways. She is proud to be included on Pennsylvania Center for the Book’s Literary Map. www.paolacorso.com.
Tuhin Das is a Bangladeshi poet. In 2016, his exile to the United States was spurred by threats of violence by Al Qaeda-linked extremist groups intent on limiting freedom of expression. He found refuge in Pittsburgh when Carnegie Mellon University invited him as a visiting scholar and, later, when City of Asylum invited him to join their writer sanctuary program. He was granted political asylum in 2021. In 2022, Exile Poems: In the Labyrinth of Homesickness, his US poetry debut was published by Bridge & Tunnel Books.
Tuhin Das - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download)Shaheen Dil was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, but has led a peripatetic life. She has spent time in many parts of the United States and traveled throughout the world. Shaheen has worked in both Academia and Business, but poetry has always been her avocation. She currently resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Manhattan, New York. She is a member of the Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange Workshop. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including, among others, The Critical Quarterly, Four Quarters, The Journal of South Asian Literature, and The Pittsburgh Quarterly. Her work has appeared in two anthologies: Poetry Chain: An Anthology of New Verse and Waiting for you to Speak. Shaheen’s first book of poetry, Acts of Deference, was published recently by Fakel Publishing House in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Shaheen Dil - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download)Barbara Edelman’s poetry collections include All the Hanging Wrenches and Dream of the Gone-From City (both from Carnegie Mellon University Press) and the chapbooks Exposure (Finishing Line) and A Girl in Water (Parallel Press). Her poems and short prose have appeared in Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, Raleigh Review, Rattle, and Spillway, among other journals, and in several anthologies. She’s a teaching professor emerita and current part time instructor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.
Barbara Edelman - 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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