Hemingway's Poetry Series: May 13, 2025 (Caballero, Dignam, McCafferty, Priest & Rudolph)

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Back Row: Kristofer Collins, Jane McCafferty & Cedric Rudolph

Front Row (L-R): Mark Dignam, M. Soledad Caballero, Joy Priest, & 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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M. Soledad Caballero is a Professor of English and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies at Allegheny College. She is a Macondo and CantoMundo fellow. Her collection, I Was a Bell (2021; Red Hen Press) was a 2022 International Latino Book Award winner. Her second collection, Flight Plan, is scheduled for publication with Red Hen Press in September 2025. She’s an avid tv watcher and a terrible birder. Learn more about her work at msoledadcaballero.com

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Mark Dignam is originally from Dublin in Ireland and this year celebrates his 25^th year living in Pittsburgh. He is critically and popularly well respected for his live performances, poetic turn of phrase as a Singer/Songwriter and has opened for, or toured with many named musical artists. Alongside his musical performances in 2025, Mark has begun to put down the guitar and have his words stand on their own. His work, with or without a guitar revolves around the themes of, a love of nature, family dynamics and how we can live better, emotionally healthier lives in a challenging world.

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Jane McCafferty is author of two story collections and two novels. Her work has received an NEA, two Pushcarts, several Pushcart special mentions, the Drue Heinz prize, The Great Lakes Writers Award, and the Talking Writing award for non-fiction. More recent work has appeared in The Sun, The Common, Iowa Review, and the journal formerly known as Crazy Horse. Her first collection of poems, The Sea Lion Who Saved the Boy Who Jumped from the Golden Gate was published by Saddle Road Press in fall of 2024. She’s always working on stories and hoping for poems and attempting to fix the draft of a novel. She teaches writing at Carnegie Mellon and for Madwomen in the Attic.

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Joy Priest is the author of Horsepower (Pitt Poetry Series, 2020) and the editor of Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology (Sarabande, 2023). She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Fine Arts Work Center fellowship, and the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from American Poetry Review. Her poems, essays, and criticism have appeared in Boston Review, Gulf Coast Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Sewanee Review, among others. She teaches on faculty in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Cedric Rudolph is a Black, gay writer living in Pittsburgh, PA. He works as a Visiting Lecturer for the University of Pittsburgh’s Writing Department. He has also taught for the Institute for Anti-Racist Education and led workshops in Allegheny County Jail. His publications include The Pittsburgh Neighborhood Guidebook and The Coal Hill Review. Eavesdrop Magazine awarded him third place in their Queer Joy Contest. Most recently, Bellevue Literary Review awarded him an honorable mention in their 2025 BLR Literary Prizes.