Our very own Katie Kurtzman tells her Littsburgh story in Literary Hub!
“Throughout my near decade of a New York City existence, there was always another city whispering my name. Softly at times. MIA for long periods. But this past winter, it became a loud exuberant command. I listened and followed it to a city of steely winding rivers and house spotted slopes and yellow bridges and my writing past. Pittsburgh. Littsburgh (remember this).
Pittsburgh was my home before New York. As a University of Pittsburgh undergrad, I first declared myself a Poetry Major. Then, a Journalism and Poetry Major. Finally—after a Mary Chapin Carpenter lookalike poetry professor zapped my poetry path—I turned to Creative Nonfiction, where I studied rock and roll essays by Lester Bangs and became transfixed by Capote’s In Cold Blood, underlined every other word in Michael Ondaatje’s Sri Lankan memoir, drooled over Jo Ann Beard’s words, learned the art of query writing from The Godfather of Creative Nonfiction, and felt the first bittersweet pangs from workshopping my own pieces.”
On leaving New York to make a literary home in Pittsburgh by @k8scarlett https://t.co/A3BdY1Q6k7 via @thelithub @littsburgh
— Electric Literature (@ElectricLit) November 12, 2015
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