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Words @ Wigle: a literary happy hour
Wigle Whiskey Distillery 
11/18/2013 
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM  
Reading 
Multigenre 
 
$0.00
 
Description and Reader Names: Come out for a happy hour reading featuring Alicia Salvadeo, Bob Walicki, and Aubrey Hirsch.

Delicious Wigle signature cocktails, drams, and sample flights will be available throughout the reading, with a portion of the drink proceeds going to the Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council. Drink up!

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writer bios:

Aubrey Hirsch is the author of WHY WE NEVER TALK ABOUT SUGAR. Her fiction and essays have appeared in journals like Third Coast, Hobart, The Rumpus, American Short Fiction, PANK and elsewhere. She currently teaches writing at the University of Pittsburgh.

Robert Walicki, A freelance poet from Verona, PA, has found inspiration through writing and poetry over the years. He is the founder of The literary reading series, Versify at The East End Book Exchange. He has had his poetry published most recently in Blast Furnace, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ,The Stone Highway Review, and The Pittsburgh City Paper.His chapbook, A Room Full of Trees is forthcoming from Redbird Press When he’s not writing, he keeps busy organizing the chaos of creation daily with his wife Lynne and two cats, Buttons and Josie.

Born in Staten Island in 1990, Alicia Salvadeo grew up in New York and Eastern Pennsylvania. She now lives in Pittsburgh, PA, where she studied poetry and history as an undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh. Her poetry and reviews have most recently appeared in Bombay Gin, The Volta, Phantom Limb, DIAGRAM, and SOFTBLOW.
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Joel W. Coggins 
jcoggins@upress.pitt.edu 
 
 
 
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2401 Smallman St 
 
 
Pittsburgh 
PA 
15222 
 
Meredith Grelli 
meredith@wiglewhiskey.com 
 
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