May 30, 2023 (Dressick, DiPerna, McCafferty & Shotland)

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Seated L-R: Sarah Shotland, Joan Bauer & Kristofer Collins

Standing L-R: Damian Dressick, Jane McCafferty & Jody DiPerna

 

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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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Damian Dressick is the author of the novel 40 Patchtown and the flash collection Fables of the Deconstruction. His writing has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including W.W. Norton’s New Micro, Electric Literature, Post Road, New Orleans Review, CutBank, Smokelong Quarterly, and New World Writing. A Blue Mountain Residency Fellow, Dressick is the winner of the Harriette Arnow Award and the Jesse Stuart Prize. He co-hosts WANA: LIVE!, a (largely) virtual reading series that brings some of the best Appalachian writers to the world. Damian also serves as Editor-in-Chief for the journal Appalachian Lit. For more, check out www.damiandressick.com.

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Jody DiPerna is an award-winning journalist and longtime book lover. She is one of the founders of the Pittsburgh Institute for Nonprofit Journalism and covers books and literary life Pittsburgh, with a specific focus on writers and books in and about Pittsburgh, the Rust Belt and Northern Appalachia.

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Jane McCafferty writes and publishes across genres. She is author of four books of fiction. Her work has been awarded two pushcart prizes, an NEA, the Drue Heinz, and others. Recent stories have appeared in Catapult, Iowa Review, Crazy Horse, and The Sun. She lives and works in Pittsburgh, teaching at CMU and for Madwomen in The Attic. She is working on a third story collection.

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Sarah Shotland is the author of the novel Junkette and the nonfiction project Abolition is Everything. She co-founded Words Without Walls, which brought creative writing classes to jails, prisons and drug treatment centers in Pittsburgh for 13 years. Her writing about art and prison has appeared in The Iowa Review, Creative Nonfiction, Baltimore Review and elsewhere. In 2022, she joined the faculty of Carlow University as the Program Director of Madwomen in the Attic.

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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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May 16, 2023 (Beatty, Repp, Shaw, Stoner)

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Seated L-R: Michelle Stoner, Jan Beatty & Joan Bauer

Standing L-R: Fred Shaw, Kristofer Collins & John Repp

Special thanks to Jill Yeomans of White Whale Bookstore for hosting and recording this event.

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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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.

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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. 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.

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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.).

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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.

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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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May 2, 2023 (Alexander, Brooks, Triplett)

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Seated L-R: Doralee Brooks & Joan Bauer

Standing L-R: Steffan Triplett, Lisa Alexander, & Kristofer Collins

 

Special thanks to Jill Yeomans of White Whale Bookstore for hosting and recording this event.

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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Lisa Alexander's full-length book throttlebody is forthcoming from Get Fresh Books in 2023. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in various journals including Tupelo Quarterly, 2 Bridges Review, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, and The Burnside Review among others. She holds an MFA in poetry from Drew University and is a longtime member of the Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops. She was a sound engineer for Prosody, the long-running radio show, and podcast that features the work of national writers, for many years. With Kayla Sargeson, she co-curates the Laser Cat reading series in Pittsburgh.

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Doralee Brooks, professor emerita at the Community College of Allegheny County in Developmental Studies, is a Madwoman in the Attic instructor for Carlow University . She is a fellow of the Western Pennsylvania Writing Project (95) and Cave Canem (97 and 99). She holds an MEd from the University of Pittsburgh and an MFA from Carlow University . Her poems have appeared in Voices from the Attic, Paterson Literary Review, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, and Dos Passos Review among others. Doralee’s chapbook, When I Hold You Up to the Light, won the 2019 Cathy Smith Bowers Chapbook Contest published by Main Street Rag. She is City of Asylum ’s Poet Laureate of Allegheny County 2022-2024.

 

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Steffan Triplett is a poet and essayist from Joplin , Missouri . His essays have appeared in Electric Literature, Longreads, Lit Hub, Vulture, and The Iowa Review. Steffan currently teaches at the University of Pittsburgh where he is the Assistant Director for the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. His first book, Bad Forecast, is forthcoming on Essay Press in 2024.

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Sheila Squillante is a poet and essayist living in Pittsburgh . She is the author of the poetry collections Mostly Human (Brick House, 2020) and Beautiful Nerve (Tiny Hardcore, 2015) as well as three chapbooks. Her debut essay collection, All Things Edible, Random and Odd, will be published by CLASH Books in 2023. She teaches in and directs the MFA program at Chatham University.

 

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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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