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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Sarah Rafson
Biography
Sarah Rafson received her BA in Architecture Studies from the University of Toronto and Masters from Columbia University’s Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices program, where she was awarded the Buell Center Oral History Prize for her thesis supervised by Mary McLeod on the outlandish Chicago feminist architecture curatorial collective, CARYATIDS. She is an editor of subteXXt, the online journal of ArchiteXX, the New York-based advocacy group for women in architecture. Rafson’s writing has appeared in ArchDaily, The Architect’s Newspaper, Princeton’s Pidgin magazine and the Beverley Willis Foundation’s Women of 20th Century American Architecture. She was a curatorial assistant for Bernard Tschumi’s 2014 retrospective at the Centre Pompidou and editor of the recent publication Parc de La Villette (2014, Artifice). Rafson has also assisted the development of architecture exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, and most recently was editorial assistant for the catalogue of the exhibition Latin America in Construction, curated by Barry Bergdoll. Currently, she is a freelance editor, writer and researcher and is preparing to launch an editorial and curatorial agency for architecture and design.