August 16: Chiusano, Collins, Taylor

When- Thursday, August 16th 
Where- ModernFormations, 4919 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh 
Time- 8:00 p.m. 
Cover- $5 or free w/ contribution of potluck dish 
BYOB!

This month's readers:


Terrence Chiusano received his MA in literature from the University at Buffalo and his BA in poetry writing from the University of Pittsburgh. Some of his poems have appeared in Yellow Field, Kenning, Ixnay, Queen Street Quarterly, Ignation and Can We Have Our Ball Back. He is a co-recipient of the Oregon Literary Fellowship to Publishers for his work as co-founder and co-editor of Rococo Anerca, a literary and arts journal. He is an assistant editor of Huck Finn: The Complete Buffalo and Erie County Public Library Manuscript (Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, 2003). He is also the author of the chapbook On Generation and Corruption: Parts I and II (Handwritten Press, 2003) and was a finalist in the 2011 National Poetry Series. He lives in Pittsburgh.







Kristofer Collins is publisher and editor-in-chief of Low Ghost Press, and the books editor for Pittsburgh Magazine. He is the manager of Caliban Bookshop and owner of Desolation Row Records & CDs. His most recent collection of poems, Last Call was published by Speed & Briscoe in 2010.

Erin Taylor works part time as a waitress at Abay and spends the rest of her time writing, picking up stray animals, and getting on her husband's nerves. She graduated from The University of Pittsburgh in 2005 where she studied English Literature. She has published non-fiction work for Gateway Newspapers as well as Cranberry Patch online newspaper. Going forward, Erin hopes to publish a collection of short stories that are beautiful and most likely sad.

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May 24: Holder, Knapps, Mattern, Walicki

When- Thursday, May 24th
Where- ModernFormations, 4919 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh
Time-  8:00 p.m.
Cover- $5 or free w/ contribution of potluck dish
BYOB!

G.M. Holder was born in the United States in 1977. In 2002, at age 24, he traveled alone to postwar Former Yugoslavia and after returning to the U.S. spent ten years writing Love Songs & Monster Songs, which chronicles many of his experiences there. In 2007 he traveled to Northern California where he began research for a trilogy he has been writing since then about the Zodiac Killer. Later that year he also hitchhiked across the country collecting stories for a book which concerns Gutterpunk, train hopping, and hitchhiking cultures. Amongst other ongoing writing projects he is at work on a large fictive neo-classical examination of the United States and a novel about chronic pain and the disability system. Though he is still widely unrecognized outside of underground literary circles, Holder's lyrical and encyclopedic writing style is already being compared to the likes of Thomas Pynchon, James Joyce and William T. Vollmann. Since 2000 he has lived in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of The Introduction to the World.

Mike Knapps lives and works in Pittsburgh. He’s written for a long time, but he’s never gotten anything published. He puts things on the internet at www.theburningbarrel.com.

Robert Walicki, a freelance poet has been inspired by his inner muse through various forms of writing and poetry over the years.He is an active member of the Pittsburgh writer’s studio and the Pittsburgh poetry exchange. Most recently,he has had his poetry published in the shot glass journal.He keeps busy organizing the chaos of creation daily with his wife and two cats,while looking forward to his appearance in May as one of the featured writers at the New Yinzer Reading Series.

April 26: Barber, Boyd, Huber

When - Thursday, April 26th
Where - ModernFormations Gallery, 4919 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh
Time – 8:00 p.m.
Cover - $5 or free w/ contribution to potluck


Tessa Barber works as a librarian and writes a blog about teen books and why they are the thing you should be reading. She graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in 2004 where she wrote poems about Goya paintings and fake people in history while studying English & Spanish literature. Then she learned how to be a librarian at Pitt. When she's not reading she manages to feed herself and her cat and learn folk ballads, and write poems about cars & dancing & houses.



Eric Boyd is an editor for the Newer York, as well as Pork & Mead magazine. Boyd is a graduate of the Words Without Walls writing program at Chatham Universtiy in Pittsburgh; he was recently awarded second place in the PEN American Center's 2012 Prison Writing contest. Boyd’s fiction work has appeared in several magazines, both online and in print. His first short story collection, WHISKEY SOUR, was released this month by Chatham / Nervous Puppy Publishing.





Rose Huber is a science and technology writer for the University of Pittsburgh. Before moving back to PA, she lived in Baltimore, where she received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts 2010 and wrote a novella, "A Bear's Place." Her work has been featured in Pear Noir, Weave, and The Light Ekphrastic. She is currently working on a science-into-story chapbook where she translates her science press releases into prose-style poetry. She writes about lots of things and stuff at www.bindandcreate.com.

March 22: Andrews, Crawford, Aizenman

When - Thursday, March 22nd
Where - ModernFormations Gallery, 4919 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh
Time – 8:00 p.m.
Cover - $5 or free w/ contribution to potluck

Kelly Andrews is a 9-5 stiff getting her kicks as a regular rabble-rouser on the weekends. She'd like to lay claim to being a superfluous writer, but she spends most of her free time doting on her cat. Her work has appeared in Pear Noir! and is forthcoming in Weave Magazine, and she'd like to stress that "the characters are all fictional."

Caitlin Crawford graduated in May 2009 from Carlow University with a degree in Biology and is now working feverishly on applying to vet school. She currently works full time at the Animal Rescue League helping pets find new homes and works part time at Allegro Hearth Bakery helping cookies and bread find new homes, too. In her scant spare time, she mostly hangs out with her cats or dances, sometimes both.

Hannah Aizenman hails from Birmingham, Alabama. She will graduate from the University of Pittsburgh in April with degrees in English Writing (Poetry) and History of Art and Architecture. Her work has appeared in Three Rivers Review and is forthcoming in Collision Literary Magazine. She has an affinity for steel cities, storytelling, and bourbon. After graduation, she looks forward to entering this “real world” she’s heard so much about.

February 23: Loveridge, Olifson, Whelan

When - Thursday, February 23rd
Where - ModernFormations Gallery, 4919 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh
Time – 8:00 p.m.
Cover - $5 or free w/ contribution to potluck



A. E. Loveridge is the author of two chapbooks, Poems for Business Travelers (Dancing Girl Press, 2011) and Congregation (Little Book Publications, 2008). Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in The Southeast Review, Barely South Review, The Tulane Review, Used Furniture Review, Southern Women’s Review, wicked alice, The New Yinzer, and multiple anthologies. She is a proud active participant in Literazzi, a poetry and performance troupe that is focused on increasing literacy in Pittsburgh. She is a Southerner by birth, holds dual citizenship in Great Britain, and now happily lives and writes from Pittsburgh, PA when not paying the bills as a traveling bureaucrat.







Alan Olifson is an award-winning humor columnist, public radio commentator, and comedian who is currently working on a book of essays (not that anyone asked him to). He was born and raised in Los Angeles but recently moved to Pittsburgh when he realized no one was forcing him to spend his life sitting on the freeway. In L.A. Alan created and produced the acclaimed storytelling-with-a-DJ-soundtrack series WordPlay (http://www.wordplayshow.com), which he is in the process of bringing to Pittsburgh along with most of his furniture. In Pittsburgh he is host of the monthly Moth StorySLAM (http://themoth.org) and will be debuting his one-person show at the Bricolage Theater's In the Raw series. On the internet he blogs at www.themanchild.net. At home he is mostly just told to put a sock in it.








Carolyne Whelan received her MFA in poetry and nonfiction at Chatham University in 2009, where she was a finalist for Best Thesis. She was awarded an Honorable Mention in the Sacramento Poetry Center Prize for a Single Poem, a partial scholarship to the Vermont Studio Center, and recently attended A Room Of Her Own Foundation's 2011 Retreat. Her first chapbook, The Glossary of Tania Aebi, was recently published by Finishing Line Press. Her second chapbook, Chain Down the Moon, and her full length manuscript, Roadside Fires Burning, have both been finalists in national chapbook and first book publishing competitions, respectively. She has work forthcoming in Willows Wept Review, the medical journal CHEST, and an anthology titled 200 New Mexico Poems. She lives in Pittsburgh, PA as a part-time legal secretary and as a writing instructor at the Community College of Allegheny County.

January 26: COGGINS, HORNER, STEVENS-DAVIS

When - Thursday, January 26th
Where - ModernFormations Gallery, 4919 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh
Time – 8:00 p.m.
Cover - $5 or free w/ contribution to potluck



Joel W. Coggins is a book designer, editor, and writer from Pittsburgh (by way of Ohio).

Drew Horner is a 30 year old writer born and raised in the Pittsburgh area. He graduated from IUP with a B.A in English - Writing and a B.A. in Philosophy - which is probably why he now manages a restaurant in East Liberty. He works mostly in short fiction despite the fact that he predominately reads novels and non-fiction.




Cate Stevens-Davis earned her MFA in fiction writing from Chatham University in 2009. Her stories have appeared in Six Sentences, the 6SV1 anthology, greatest lakes review, Wanderlust Review, The Linnet's Wings and shadyside review, among others, and her chapbook, Big Women, Big Girls, is forthcoming from Stamped Books.