Pittsburgh is home to an incredible range of authors, publishing professionals, literary event organizers and opinion leaders.
Our city nurtures well-known and emerging literary talent and is the inspiration for many works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. In addition to the authors you may recognize, Littsburgh’s evolving literary roster features some of the passionate people who work behind the scenes to find local and national audiences for this work, and who help make Pittsburgh a haven for writers and readers.
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Angele Ellis
Biography
Angele Ellis is author of Arab on Radar (Six Gallery Press), whose poems won her an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Spared (A Main Street Rag Editors’ Choice Chapbook), and coauthor of Dealing With Differences (Corwin Press), named as an outstanding multicultural resource by The Christian Science Monitor. Her poetry, short fiction—including excerpts of a novel in progress–and book reviews have appeared in fifty journals and ten anthologies. She is a Contributing Editor for Al Jadid Magazine. A longtime writer, editor, and community activist, Ellis lives in the Friendship section of Pittsburgh, both a neighborhood and a state of mind.