VenueChatham University, Mellon Board Room 

Date01/21/2014 

Time5:00 PM - 12:00 AM  

Event TypeReading 

GenreNon-fiction 

SponsorMFA Creative Writing at Chatham University 

Cost $0.00
 

Description and Reader Names: Christopher Bakken and Katherine Ayres will read from their latest work. A book signing will follow the reading.

Christopher Bakken is the author of a culinary memoir, Honey, Olives, Octopus, and two books of poetry, Goat Funeral (2006) and After Greece (for which he was awarded the 2001 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry). He is also co-translator of The Lions' Gate: Selected Poems of TitosPatrikios. Bakken has been awarded the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize, the Helen C. Smith Memorial Prize for Poetry, and he served as a Fulbright Scholar atUniversity of Bucharest. He is Chair of the Department of English at Allegheny College and he directs a summer writing program on the island of Thasos.

Katherine Ayres lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she writes and teaches writing to graduate students in Chatham University’s MFA Program. She also lives in Stockbridge, Massachusetts where she writes, gardens, hikes, kayaks, and watches for bears. She is theauthor of ten books for children and teens, as well as three chapbooks of poetry. She has been honored as a Champion of Literacy, as Outstanding Writer for Children by the Pennsylvania School Library Association. Her picture book, Up, Down, and Around was chosen as the Pennsylvania One Book, Every Young Child, and as the Kansas Reads to Preschool selection. Bear Season is her first collection of essays.

Primary Contact PersonErin Hutton 

Primary Contact Emailehutton@chatham.edu 

Telephone412-365-1685 

Websitehttp://chatham.edu/mfa 

Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/pages/MFA-Program-in-Creative-Writing-at-Chatham-University/94927629363 

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Is this an open mic event? No 

Is this a book signing? Yes 

Will author's books be for sale? Yes 

Address 1Mellon Center 

Address 2Woodland Road 

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CityPittsburgh 

StatePA 

Zip15232 

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