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Brianz J Krummel (website)
Brian J. Krummel, a photographer by formal training, completed a BA in Arts from Pennsylvania State University in 1996, focusing on photography as a creative discipline. Brian's passion about photography has led him to continue his own photographic experimentations and explorations over the years with a variety of tools and techniques, which most recently included branching off into the interests of lo-fi, toy camera, and pinhole photography.

Brian has gained media exposure through television, newspapers, and in photography magazines. He also teaches workshops where emerging artists can learn the hands-on basics of pinhole photography.

Like most artists, Brian enjoys a parallel creative career as a computer programmer and owns his own interactive firm. Brian works in the Pittsburgh, PA area and lives with his wife and three children in a quiet city suburb.
Crystal Jean Hoffman (website)
Renee Alberts (website)
Renee Alberts listens to rivers and shortwave radio to create poetry, collage, sound, and photography. Her poetry collection, No Water, came out in 2009, and her work has appeared in The New Yinzer, Encyclopedia Destructica, Pittsburgh City Paper, and Subtletea. She is a guest host of WYEP's Prosody, a weekly radio show featuring the work of poets and writers. She has given dozens of readings, including on WYEP?��Ǩ�Ѣs Prosody, WRCT's A Live Show, as a 2001 and 2004 member of the Steel City Slam Team and on the 2011 Cut and Run Word Tour with inksister Nikki Allen. She organizes numerous poetry and music events, including the long-running WordsSwordsWords showcase and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Sunday Poetry & Reading Series, for which she edited Natural Language: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Sunday Poetry and Reading Series Anthology, a collection that includes the work of 35 academic, experimental, and spoken word poets.
Ellen M. Smith
Ellen McGrath Smith teaches literature and writing at the University of Pittsburgh and in Carlow University's Madwomen in the Attic program for women writers. Her critical work has appeared in Sagetrieb, The Denver Quarterly, The Pennsylvania Review, American Book Review, The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, and The Pittsburgh Quarterly. Poems have appeared or are forthcoming in: Cerise, Weave, The Same, Kestrel, Oranges & Sardines, CQ, 5 a.m., Café, Oxford Magazine, Diner, The Best of the Prose Poem, Pearl, Zone 3, Southern Poetry Review, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Sistersong, Descant (Canada), and others. Her work has received the Rainmaker Award in Poetry from Zone 3 magazine, the Academy of American Poets Prize, the Ascher Montandon Prize in Poetry (HyperAge magazine), and an Honorable Mention in the Lynda Hull Awards (Crazyhorse, 2004). Reviews Editor, Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics; 2007 Individual Artist Fellowship in Poetry from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
Don Wentworth (website)
Angele Ellis
ANGELE ELLIS's work has appeared on a theatre marquee (after winning Pittsburgh Filmmakers' G-20 Haiku Contest in 2009), in journals and periodicals (including Grey Sparrow, Mizna, Grasslimb, THEMA, and yawp), and in anthologies Come Together: Imagine Peace (Bottom Dog Press), Natural Language (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh), and Carlow University Press's Voices from the Attic series. She is the author of two books of poems, Spared (Main Street Rag, 2011) and Arab on Radar (Six Gallery Press, 2007), as well as a 2008 recipient of an Individual Creative Artist Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and a prizewinner in the 2007 RAWI Competition for Creative Prose. Her longtime peace and community activism led to co-authorship of the diversity workbook Dealing With Differences (Corwin Press, 1997), and has included civil disobedience. Born in Syracuse, NY to a first-generation Lebanese American father and Italian American mother, she earned a B.A. in English Writing with honors from the University of Pittsburgh, and makes her home in Pittsburgh's Friendship neighborhood.
Robert Isenberg (website)
Robert Isenberg is a prolific and versatile writer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. An author, award-winning journalist, prize-winning poet and acclaimed comedian and playwright, he has contributed to a variety of local and national publications, reaching tens of thousands of readers every month. He is a past Brackenridge fellow, McDowell fellow and currently serves as Whitford Fellow at Chatham University, the MFA program’s highest honor. He specializes in arts, culture and travel writing. Originally from Vermont, he lives in Pittsburgh and has traveled to 31 countries around the globe. Isenberg’s book, The Archipelago: A Balkan Passage, was released by Autumn House Press in November 2010. His essay about Greyhound travel will appear in a forthcoming anthology, Between Song & Story, alongside such renowned authors as Joyce Carol Oates. Isenberg has written for a variety of newspapers, including Pittsburgh City Paper, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The San Diego Reader, The Christian Science Monitor, Pulp, and other weeklies and dailies. In 2009 he received a Golden Quill Award for arts criticism. He is a veteran reporter and critic for Back Stage, the industry standard for actors. In the glossy realm, Isenberg is a contributing editor for Pittsburgh Magazine and has written features for Mental_Floss, Whirl, U.S. Airways, Hemispheres and Stage Directions. He maintains a monthly photo-series for Pittsburgh Magazine called Street View, which is among the website’s most popular features. Isenberg has worked extensively as a new media writer. He is a longtime writer for MSN.com, the second busiest portal on the Internet. Past and recurring clients include AOL DigitalCity, Sparknotes, PopCity and Trazzler. He is an active reporter and photographer for Patch.com. As a dramatist, Isenberg has penned many scripts for stage – this spring he will see his fifteenth script receive full production. Enthusiastically reviewed, Isenberg is a veteran member of the Dramatists Guild of America and creator and co-author of The Pittsburgh Monologue Project, published in 2006 through the Sprout Fund. He also co-founder of For Real For Real, a storytelling series based on The Moth (he collaborates with Gab Bonesso, Pittsburgh’s most acclaimed comedian). Isenberg has taught a popular playwriting workshop at Duquesne University for four years. As a humorist, Isenberg heads the “Playing Doctor” column for McSweeney’s. He has also contributed to Yankee Pot Roast and The Science Creative Quarterly. He is co-founder of the Hodgepodge Society, a comedy lecture series, which has been produced by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust for two years running. For more information about Robert Isenberg, feel free to visit his blog at www.thearkmag.com.
Arlene Weiner (website)
Arlene Weiner was born in Manhattan and went to public school there. She has been a cardiology technician, a college instructor, an editor, and a research associate in educational applications of cognitive science. Escape Velocity, a collection of her poems, was published by Ragged Sky in 2006. Poet Joy Katz wrote of it, “I want to keep my favorite of these beautifully alert, surprising poems with me as I grow old.” A MacDowell Colony fellow, Arlene has had poems published in journals including Hawk and Handsaw, Off the Coast, Pleiades, Poet Lore, and U.S. 1 Worksheets, anthologized in Along These Rivers (Quadrant), Eating Her Wedding Dress (Ragged Sky) and Thatchwork (Delaware Valley Poets), and read by Garrison Keillor on his Writer’s Almanac. Arlene lives in Pittsburgh. She is a member of Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange (for which she maintains a web site), the Squirrel Hill Poetry Workshop, and U.S. 1 Poets' Cooperative. She has written several short plays.
Nancy-Rose Netchi
Edward Murray
Edward Murray is the author of Stranger’s Pilgrimage. Stranger is a contributor to Dionne’s Story, an anthology of poetry and prose for the awareness of violence against women. He has most recently been accepted as a contributer to Ginosko literary journal. He is a member, and past president, of the Langston Hughes Poetry Society of Pittsburgh. His poetry has appeared in Writer’s Block at the soulpitt. He is an artist, filmmaker, photographer and poet. He was born and raised in southern California during the 1980’s and 1990’s. He grew up in an economically challenged neighborhood with gangs, drugs and violence. During those times he chose to participate in certain activities and then found relief or therapy from the difficult situations by writing, drawing or taking pictures. He was nick named Stranger because of being away from the neighborhood on many different occasions. Barbara Lewis sang a song named, “Hello Stranger,” this became his adopted name. His last stay in jail provided an opportunity for a reduced sentence in exchange for enlistment in the US Army. He spent ten years in the US Army, where among other things he met and married his wife. They eventually settled on the east side of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They celebrated seventeen years of marriage in July of 2010.
Teresa Nolan
Joshua Nicholas Barnes (website)
Stephanie Rexroth (website)
On The Vine Creative is a Pittsburgh based consultancy specializing in advocacy writing; supplemented by design, social media marketing and event coordination. Stephanie Rexroth, Principal Writer + Designer + Russophile Mission: change the world, a one story at a time. Passion: writing to give voice to a cause; one that empowers people & inspires change. As a non-fiction advocacy writer, I use my design + marketing experience to broadcast a story throughout the social media airwaves to increase awareness, engage dialog & spur action. Obsession: anything/everything East European & Russian. I spend my free time learning about those languages, cultures and histories and reading the vast body of work by the literary greats (both past & present). Current Projects: Under the guise of On The Vine Creative, I am currently developing several on-going publications based on the theme/model of oppression-empowerment-change: > Agents of Change - Stories of everyday people effecting change > re:Hashing History - Some things change; some things stay the same > Demystifying Depression - Breaking the silence to dispel the myths & misconceptions of mental illness > You, me & the Cold War - 20 Years Later: The Second Cold War Kids are Alright > Break the Spell - Advocating the end of anti-Gypsy discrimination If any of these projects resonate with you, email srexroth@hotmail.com to either: 1) discuss your expertise and how we may partner to collaborate; or 2) share your story and discuss how OTV can give it a voice.
Adrienne Block
Judith R. Robinson (website)
Judith R. Robinson is an editor, teacher, fiction writer and poet. A 1980 summa cum laude graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, she is listed in the Directory of American Poets and Writers. Books: Living Inland, 1989, Bennington Press; editor The Beautiful Wife and Other Stories, 1996, Aegina Press; author Signatures, Vols. 1, 2 & 3, 2001, 03, 06, 10, Osher at Carnegie Mellon University and Ring Road Press; poetry editor Only the Sea Keeps: Poetry of the Tsunami, 2005, Rupa Publishers, Inc. and 2005, Bayeux Arts; editor Along These Rivers: poetry and photography from Pittsburgh, 2008; with Michael Wurster, co-editor Wayfarer, poetry of Margaret Menamin, 2010, Main Street Rag; editor Dinner Date, 2009, Finishing Line Press; author Poetry: most recent selected publications include:* The Poetry Ark, 2011, anthology Poetica, 2010, 2009, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003; Rockhurst Review, 2010; Rune, 2010, 09; the Minnow, 2009; Eye Contact, 2009-10, 11: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 11/13/10; 4/11/09; 3/29/03; 5/13/98; 1/13/96; 3/25/95; Main Street Rag, fall, 2010, 2008; Voices Israel 2010, 2008, anthologies Blue Unicorn, October 2008; April, 2007; June, 2006; Brevities, June, 2008, December, 2007; Along These Rivers, 2008 For New Orleans and Other Poems, anthology, October, 2007 Jane’s Stories, Drabble Competition, 1st Place, Autumn, 2007 Tapestries, anthology, 2007 California Quarterly, Vol.32, 2006; Vol.31, 2005; www.writersalliance.net, November, 2006; 5AM, 2006; 2003; poetsforhumanity.org, January, 2005 TPQ Online, Fall, 2005; April, 2004 Pulp, 2004; City Paper, 2004; *earlier publications on request Poems For All, 2003, 2002; Crossing Limits, anthology, 1997 TPQ 1998; 1997,1996, 1995,1994, 1992; Negative Capability, 1995 Poet’s Pen spring, 1994; summer, 1994 We Speak For Peace, anthology, 1993 Midstream, 1993
Phinehas Hodges (website)
Lucy Goubert
Lisa Nutt
New Yinzer (website)
Don DiGiulio (website)
No Name Players is a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to presenting unique and challenging theatrical productions by both new and established playwrights with an emphasis on the collaborative nature of theatre through ensemble. We focus on works that appeal to our own uniquely eclectic creative sensibilities. We work together as a group where no individual is greater than the whole. Actors, directors, playwrights, designers and stage personnel play equally important roles in achieving our artistic vision. There is no fear in exploring a vast array of styles and genres. There are no boundaries that will not be pushed. There is no limit to what we can achieve.
Emily Price
Bob Scott (website)
Jennifer Quinio
cyber punk apocalypse (website)
Kristin Helfrich
Ethelin Ekwa
Peter M Oresick
Peter Oresick, a poet, directs Chatham University's Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing. His books include WARHOL-O-RAMA, FOR A LIVING, WORKING CLASSICS, and THE PITTSBURGH BOOK OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY.
Richard St. John
Charity Leonette
William James (website)
William James once shot his sister in the back of the head with a BB gun; she retaliated immediately with a rake to the back of his skull. Both of them still bear the markings of this misadventure years later. This has nothing to do with poetry whatsoever, except for perhaps explaining the reason why he tends to speak in poems even when he tries not to. A member of the Steel City Poetry Slam in Pittsburgh PA, as well as the underground music community, William mixes the ferocity and sledgehammer subtlety of punk rock with the refined art of the literary world. Whether it's with a snarl, or a grin, he is dedicated to bringing as much passion, sincerity, and intensity to his craft as a mere mortal can. He is a fan of typewriters, coffee, and all cats.
Jim Rugg (website)
Rick Armstrong
Maxwell King
Eryn Morgan
Claire Barbetti
Claire Barbetti received her Ph.D. from Duquesne University in English and has taught courses on Chaucer, History of the English Language, poetry workshops, and composition since 2002. In 1998 she co-founded the interdisciplinary journal Janus Head and worked as coeditor for five years. Her work often revolves around the relationship between verbal and visual arts and she has recently begun a new critical/creative project on ekphrasis and medieval representations of food, from recipes in the Forme of Cury and by such authors as Hildegard of Bingen, to representations of slaughter and preparation, feasting halls and dishes in a number of high and late medieval works. A working poet, she has published her work in Cimarron Review, How2, The Drunken Boat, among others. She is also an avid cook, gardener, and yoga instructor, and continues to perform her poetry in Pittsburgh where she lives with her husband and three children.
Jeff Oaks
Philip Terman
Jamar Thrasher
Natalie DeRiso
Joan E. Bauer (website)
Joan. E Bauer was born in Los Angeles, and for some years taught English and journalism in public and indpenedent schools. She is the author of The Almost Sound of Drowning (Main Street Rag, 2008), and her poetry has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. With Judith Robinson and Sankar Roy, she co-edited the international collection, Only the Sea Keeps: Poetry of the Tsunami (Bayeux Arts, 2005). With Jim Cvetic, she co-facilitates the Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series in Pittsburgh. She is currently working on a new manuscript, Leaving Silverlake.
Jennifer A Howard
Nikki Allen (website)
Barbara E Dahlberg
Brian Francis (website)
Fred Peterson
Peter Oresick
Stacey Waite
Sarah Williams-Devereux (website)
Sarah Williams-Devereux is a poet, transformative language artist, and educator. She lives in Pittsburgh and has read her work locally at various venues, including Prosody, the Choice Cuts Reading Series, The New Yinzer Reading Series, Incredibly Thin, She Said, The Sprout Fund's Hothouse, and the Hungry Sphinx Reading Series. Her work has been published in multiple volumes of Voices from the Attic (Carlow University), Pittsburgh City Paper, Pittsburgh Love Stories (The New Yinzer), and the online journal SubtleTea. She is the co-author of the research monograph Our Stories, Our Selves: A3P: The African American Arts Project: A Study of African American Young Adult Arts Participation (PITT ARTS, University of Pittsburgh, 2006). She received her BFA in Painting from Seton Hill College.
Jessica R Simms
Barbara Watson
I have self published my memoirs "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way." I moderate a memoir writing class at Mt. lebanon United Methodist church on the first and third Friday of each month at 1:30. Presently we have between 8 and 20 attending.
Lauren Golembiewski
Dave Borland
Laura E. Davis (website)
Laura E. Davis is originally from Pittsburgh, PA, the City of Champions. She earned her BS in Education from California University of Pennsylvania and teaches gifted education for Propel Charter Schools. She is currently an MFA candidate in poetry and nonfiction at Chatham University. Her poetry has been featured on Prosody and is forthcoming in Splinter Generation, Redactions, Meadowland Review, Pear Noir!, and Adanna. Laura is happy and humbled to be the Founding Editor of Weave.
Art Noose (website)
Carolyne Whelan (website)
Carolyne Whelan received her BA from the College of Santa Fe where she won Best Poetry Collection, and her MFA from Chatham University where she was a finalist for Best Thesis. She was awarded a partial scholarship to the Vermont Studio Center. Her long prose poem/biography, The Glossary of Tania Aebi, will be published in August by Finishing Line Press and is now available for sale online.
Courtnet Lora Lang
Courtney Lora Lang is a printmaker and a writer. When not professing the wonders of creative writing or research to college undergraduates, she spends her time wandering the wilds of western Pennsylvania with her two dogs. Her two favorite words are currently adjunct and sublet.
Beth Fleeson
eth Fleeson is lucky enough to live and study with a Zen Master, her own five month old, Oliver. In her spare time, she serves as adjunct faculty at CCBC and Penn State Beaver. She earned her MFA at Chatham University with concentrations in Poetry and Non-fiction. She enjoys cloth diapering,
Elizabeth Ashe
Elizabeth Ashe is a poet and sculptor. In her work she melds poetry/text/the oral tradition with the physical and site specific. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Chatham. It took her a while but now she loves Pittsburgh, even though she's in round two of grad school in Baltimore.
RJ Gibson
Lori Jakiela
Dilruba Ahmed (website)
Dilruba Ahmed is the author of DHAKA DUST (Graywolf, July 2011), winner of the 2010 Bakeless Literary Prize for poetry, selected by Arthur Sze and awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
Geeta Kothari
Ellen McGrath Smith
Ellen McGrath Smith teaches at the University of Pittsburgh and in the Carlow University Madwomen in the Attic program. Poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Cerise, The Same, Kestrel, Oranges & Sardines, Diner, 5 a.m., Oxford Magazine, The Prose Poem, Southern Poetry Review, Descant (Canada), and others. Her critical work has been published in Sagetrieb, The Denver Quarterly, The American Book Review and other journals. Her poetry has been recognized with an Academy of American Poets award, a Rainmaker Award from Zone 3 magazine, and, more recently, a 2007 Individual Artist grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
Micki Myers
Micki Myers is the author of Trigger Finger, has published over 100 poems in journals nationwide, and has received three Pushcart Prize nominations. She teaches writing and literature, and writes about music for The Inky Jukebox.
Jason Baldinger
Jason Baldinger
John Thomas Menesini (website)
When I read John Menesini's poems I forget that I am reading the words of a man I have met in person, instead I feel as though I am reading the words of a voice that witnesses the existence of the individual, in all its trivial and epic details, from some eternal place outside of the universe. Menesini's writing refuses to acknowledge any divide between poetic realization and the concrete stalemate of everyday life. I cannot help but notice a Kerouac-like energy in Menesini's work, his poems contain both an objective sense of the cosmic and a subjective interpretation of the human world -Bill Hughes
Margaret Bashaar
Margaret Bashaar's latest chapbook, Letters from Room 27 of the Grand Midway Hotel will be released by Blood Pudding Press this August. Her poetry has also appearead in over two dozen literary journals and in the anthology Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets Under 25. She edits Hyacinth Girl Press, a fledgling poetry chapbook press, and will be an artist in residence this fall at Petrified Forest National Park.
Sonia Sanchez (website)
Alexandra Petrova
Tommi Parkko
Hind Shoufani
Khet Mar
Israel Centeno
Jim Daniels
Joy Katz
Lori WIlson
Michael Wurster
Sheila CarterJones
Jim Daniels
Lori WIlson
Michael Wurster
D Gilson
Ginny Levy
Jess Charest
Kelly Thomas
Bree Chumley
zine kid from Pittsburgh
Jill Summers
from Chicago
Johnny Misfit
zinester extraordinaire from Chicago
Robert Isenberg (website)
Robert Isenberg is a prolific and versatile writer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. An author, award-winning journalist, prize-winning poet and acclaimed comedian and playwright, he has contributed to a variety of local and national publications, reaching tens of thousands of readers every month. He is a past Brackenridge fellow, McDowell fellow and currently serves as Whitford Fellow at Chatham University, the MFA program’s highest honor. He specializes in arts, culture and travel writing. Originally from Vermont, he lives in Pittsburgh and has traveled to 31 countries around the globe. Isenberg’s book, The Archipelago: A Balkan Passage, was released by Autumn House Press in November 2010. His essay about Greyhound travel will appear in a forthcoming anthology, Between Song & Story, alongside such renowned authors as Joyce Carol Oates. Isenberg has written for a variety of newspapers, including Pittsburgh City Paper, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The San Diego Reader, The Christian Science Monitor, Pulp, and other weeklies and dailies. In 2009 he received a Golden Quill Award for arts criticism. He is a veteran reporter and critic for Back Stage, the industry standard for actors. In the glossy realm, Isenberg is a contributing editor for Pittsburgh Magazine and has written features for Mental_Floss, Whirl, U.S. Airways, Hemispheres and Stage Directions. He maintains a monthly photo-series for Pittsburgh Magazine called Street View, which is among the website’s most popular features. Isenberg has worked extensively as a new media writer. He is a longtime writer for MSN.com, the second busiest portal on the Internet. Past and recurring clients include AOL DigitalCity, Sparknotes, PopCity and Trazzler. He is an active reporter and photographer for Patch.com. As a dramatist, Isenberg has penned many scripts for stage – this spring he will see his fifteenth script receive full production. Enthusiastically reviewed, Isenberg is a veteran member of the Dramatists Guild of America and creator and co-author of The Pittsburgh Monologue Project, published in 2006 through the Sprout Fund. He also co-founder of For Real For Real, a storytelling series based on The Moth (he collaborates with Gab Bonesso, Pittsburgh’s most acclaimed comedian). Isenberg has taught a popular playwriting workshop at Duquesne University for four years. As a humorist, Isenberg heads the “Playing Doctor” column for McSweeney’s. He has also contributed to Yankee Pot Roast and The Science Creative Quarterly. He is co-founder of the Hodgepodge Society, a comedy lecture series, which has been produced by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust for two years running. For more information about Robert Isenberg, feel free to visit his blog at www.thearkmag.com.
Jason Baldinger
Jerome Crooks
Vincent Eirene
Nathan Kukulski
Toi Derricotte
TOI DERRICOTTE’s books of poetry include The Undertaker’s Daughter (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011); Tender (1997), winner, Paterson Poetry Prize; Captivity (1989); Natural Birth (1983); and The Empress of the Death House (1978). She is the author of a literary memoir, The Black Notebooks (W.W. Norton, 1997), which won the 1998 Annisfield-Wolf Book Award for Non-Fiction. Together with Cornelius Eady, she co-founded Cave Canem, a workshop retreat for Black poets, in 1996. She is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
Sarah WilliamsDevereux
SARAH WILLIAMS-DEVEREUX is a transformative language artist. Her poetry has been published in Sampsonia Way Magazine, Pittsburgh City Paper, Voices from the Attic, The New Yinzer’s Pittsburgh Love Stories anthology, and SubtleTea. She teaches poetry for Carlow University’s Madwomen in the Attic Creative Writing Workshops. She has read her work on WYEP-FM’s Prosody, the Choice Cuts Reading Series, She Said, and The Sprout Fund's Hothouse.
William James (website)
William James once shot his sister in the back of the head with a BB gun; she retaliated immediately with a rake to the back of his skull. Both of them still bear the markings of this misadventure years later. This has nothing to do with poetry whatsoever, except for perhaps explaining the reason why he tends to speak in poems even when he tries not to. A member of the Steel City Poetry Slam in Pittsburgh PA, as well as the underground music community, William mixes the ferocity and sledgehammer subtlety of punk rock with the refined art of the literary world. Whether it's with a snarl, or a grin, he is dedicated to bringing as much passion, sincerity, and intensity to his craft as a mere mortal can. He is a fan of typewriters, coffee, and all cats.
Tera McIntosh
Phil Therman
Phil Therman's books of poetry include, "The House of Sages," "Book of the Unbroken Days," and "Rabbits of the Air."
Sankar Roy (website)
Sankar Roy, originally from India, is a poet, translator, activist and multimedia artist living near Pittsburgh, PA. He is a winner of PEN USA Emerging Voices, a Rosenthal Fellow, a finalist for Benjamin Franklin Award, winner of Skipping Stone Award and author of three chapbooks of poetry. Sankar’s poems have appeared and forthcoming in over eighty journals and anthologies. He founded the Poets for Humanity project and website on which many of the poems later featured in the book, Only the Sea Keeps: Poetry of the Tsunami (Bayeux Arts and Rupa & Co, 2005) first appeared.
Julie Draper
Steve Gillies
Meghan Condran
Rosemary Callenberg
Peter Trachtenberg
JA Howard
Jonathan Gotsick
Don Wentworth (website)
Jason Baldinger
Bill Hughes
Elwin Cotman (website)
Don Wentworth (website)
Jason Baldinger
Elwin Cotman (website)
Che Elias (website)
Angele Ellis (website)
ANGELE ELLIS's work has appeared on a theatre marquee (after winning Pittsburgh Filmmakers' G-20 Haiku Contest in 2009), in journals and periodicals (including Grey Sparrow, Mizna, Grasslimb, THEMA, and yawp), and in anthologies Come Together: Imagine Peace (Bottom Dog Press), Natural Language (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh), and Carlow University Press's Voices from the Attic series. She is the author of two books of poems, Spared (Main Street Rag, 2011) and Arab on Radar (Six Gallery Press, 2007), as well as a 2008 recipient of an Individual Creative Artist Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and a prizewinner in the 2007 RAWI Competition for Creative Prose. Her longtime peace and community activism led to co-authorship of the diversity workbook Dealing With Differences (Corwin Press, 1997), and has included civil disobedience. Born in Syracuse, NY to a first-generation Lebanese American father and Italian American mother, she earned a B.A. in English Writing with honors from the University of Pittsburgh, and makes her home in Pittsburgh's Friendship neighborhood.
Karen Lillis (website)
Tait McKenzie Johnson (website)
Dana Killmeyer (website)
Tikvah Feinstein
Taproot Writer's Workshop Inc. founder and director, widely published in poetry and fiction.
Andrew Sydlik
Andrew Sydlik aspires to write better fiction, poetry, and criticism.
Tikvah Feinstein
Taproot Writer's Workshop Inc. founder and director, widely published in poetry and fiction.
Fabienne Kanor
Born in France of Martinican descent, FABIENNE KANOR is a novelist and a filmmaker. She is the author of four novels, D'Eaux douces (2004), Humus (2006), Les Chiens ne font pas des chats (Gallimard, 2008) and Anticorps (Gallimard, 2010), as well as a children's novel Le Jour où la mer a disparu (2008). She received the Fetkann Award for her novel D'Eaux Douces and the RFO Literary Award for Humus She has also made two short films and several documentaries, including C'est qui l'homme?, winner of the Best Screenplay Award at the Angers Film Festival in 2008. She has worked as a reporter at France 3, Radio Nova (Paris), and International French Radio RFI. In 2010, she was awarded Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture.
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