May 14, 2024 (Beatty, Gwin, Heinlen, Pritts & Shaw)

 

Hemingway's Poetry Series

May 14, 2024

Featured Readers

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Back Row (L-R): Ben Gwin, Fred Shaw & Kristofer Collins

Front Row (L-R): Jan Beatty, Hallie Pritts, Amy Lee Heinlen & Joan Bauer

Kristofer Collins is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Low Ghost Press founded in 2008 and the longtime Books Editor for Pittsburgh Magazine. He is also the co-curator of the Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series. His latest book, Roundabout Trace, was published in 2022 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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Joan E. Bauer is the author of three full-length poetry collections, Fig Season (Turning Point, 2023), The Camera Artist (Turning Point, 2021), and The Almost Sound of Drowning (Main Street Rag, 2008). Recent work has appeared in Paterson Literary Review, Slipstream and Chiron Review. She divides her time between Venice, CA and Pittsburgh, PA where she co-curates the Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series with Kristofer Collins. 

 

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Jan Beatty’s eighth book, Dragstripping, is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press, September 2024. Her memoir, American Bastard, won the Red Hen Nonfiction Award. Recent books include The Body Wars and a chapbook, Skydog (Lefty Blondie Press, 2022). Other work includes Jackknife: New and Selected Poems (University of Pittsburgh, 2018 Paterson Prize) named by Sandra Cisneros on LitHub as her favorite book of 2019. Beatty worked as a waitress, abortion counselor, and in maximum security prisons. She is Professor Emerita at Carlow University, where she directed creative writing, the Madwomen in the Attic workshops, and the MFA program. 

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Ben Gwin is the author of the novel, Clean Time (Burrow Press), and the book, Team Building: A Memoir about Family and the Fight for Workers’ Rights (Belt). He was also the editor of the anthology, The Pittsburgh Neighborhood Guidebook (Belt). Ben’s fiction and essays have appeared in The Rumpus, Normal School, Lit Hub, and others. He lives in Pittsburgh with his child.

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Amy Lee Heinlen is a poet and publisher based in Western Pennsylvania. She’s the author of the chapbook, All Else Falls to Shadow (Dancing Girl Press). Her poems are published in a variety of journals, including Literary Mama, poets.org, Rogue Agent, Stirring: A Literary Collective, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and elsewhere. Heinlen is co-founder and editor of Lefty Blondie Press, an independent publisher promoting the work of self-identifying women and non-binary poets. Heinlen is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets University and College prize and Best Thesis in Poetry prize from Chatham University. 

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Hallie Pritts is a writer from western Pennsylvania. Her fiction is equal parts romp and social commentary: eccentric characters—including UFO-believers and the ghost of a 1970s rock star—navigate class struggles, a rapidly changing ecology, an ever-uncertain future, and the defining question of what it means to be free. Pritts’ literary thriller-in-progress is a finalist for the 2023 Claymore Award. Her short work can be found in McSweeney’s, The Belladonna, Points in Case, Frazzled, The Fourth River, and Off Assignment, among others. She’s a reader for The Barcelona Review.

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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. A Visiting Lecturer of Creative Writing at the University of Pittsburgh, he curates the “PQ Poem” feature for Pittsburgh Quarterly where he also reviews books. His first collection, Scraping Away, was published by CavanKerry Press. A second collection is forthcoming.

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