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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Christine Aikens Wolfe
Biography
Formerly a reading specialist for Pittsburgh Public Schools, Christine writes and teaches the craft of writing to children and adults. Christine co-edited The Poetic Classroom (Autumn House, 2013) and appears in an anthology of formalist poets writing in five languages: The Phoenix Rising from Ashes (2014). She has published poems in Sonnetto Poesia, a bi-lingual quarterly out of Ottawa, and in Poetry Magazine, Loyalhanna Review, Blast Furnace, City Paper, and more. She was one of twenty poets featured in the anthology Fission and Form, where poetry linked the work of sculptors and illustrators.
Christine is a member of Madwomen in the Attic at Carlow University, the Western Pennsylvania Writing Project, and Pittsburgh Poetry Society, of which she is currently President.