Authors & Poets

Authors and poets from around the globe gathered to celebrate Pittsburgh’s vibrant literary community!

Authors

Non-Fiction & History

Emily Tamkin

Kristina Marusic

Rinker Buck

Brian Butko

Marylynne Pitz

Emily Ruby

Ed Simon

Rania Mamoun

Mystery

Kathleen George

Kit Frick

Sujata Massey

 

Fiction

Jeannette Walls

W. Bruce Cameron

Stewart O’Nan

Vanessa Riley

John Vercher

Brendan Slocumb

Laura Warrell

Joshua David Bellin

Rebecca Yarros

Noley Reid

Memoir

Leon Ford

Joseph Sassoon

Russel Shorto

Mark Whitaker

Romance

Ashley Winstead

Annie Rains

 

Thriller

J.D. Barker

Don Bentley

Erin Adams

Ashley Winstead

Children’s & Young Adult

Camryn Garrett

Torrey Maldonado

Short Story

Anjali Sachdeva

Sports

Shadra Strickland

Sara Walters

 

Krystal Marquis

 

Karuna Riazi

James Klise

 

Jolene Mcilwain

Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan

Brittany Thurman

 

Jorge Olivera Castillo

Tom O’Lenic

Josh Yohe

Jim Wexell

 
 

Poets

Ross Gay

Deborah Bogen

Sarah Williams-Devereux

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

Jen Ashburn

Richard St. John

Liza Duncan

Jan Beatty

S. Brook Corfman

Ellen McGrath Smith

Lori Jakiela

Jane McCafferty

Sheila Carter-Jones

Danielle Obisie-Orlu

Charlie Brice

Judy Brice

Lynn Emanuel

Veronica Corpus

Michael Simms

Lawrence Wray

Judy Robinson

Oleksandr Frazé-Frazénko

Barbara Edelman

Bonita Penn

Natalie Homer

Nancy Krygowski

Nancy Koerbel

 

Writer’s Row

Brian D. Berkey

Carlos T. Carter

Kathleen Dixon Donnelly

Donald Firesmith

Carrie P. Holzer

Amy Hooper Hanna (for myself and co-author Holly J McIlwain)

Annette Hostoffer

Robert C. Jameson

Kathy Kasunich

Christine Fallert Kessides

Mayté Losada

Karin J. Lund

Katy Metz

William J. Miller, Jr.

Bryan Prosek

Carmella Raiford

Michael Roth

Tabassam Shah

Jess Simms

Nicole Spindler

Thomas C. Stuhr

Jeanette Watts

C.G. Wynn

Gerald Yukevich - pen name Ivan Cox