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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Stephanie Brea
Biography
Stephanie Brea is a writer, teacher, copy editor, and event organizer. She has 10+ years of experience facilitating creative writing workshops for local schools and non-profit organizations including Pittsburgh Public Schools, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Literary Arts Boom, The Warhol, and Penn Trafford High School. Her work has been published in Pear Noir!, The Legendary, Nerve Cowboy and the Pittsburgh City Paper. She also spent time as a technical writer for an invention company and as copy editor for Alternative Press magazine.
Way back in 1998, she helped organize her first event: a series of motorcycle rides through the Arizona desert to support her father’s business. Then came a monthly literary series called Get Lit. She still vacillates between literary and non-literary happenings including: Bayardstown Social Club, Weather Permitting, Pittsburgh Abides (a Lebowski fest), Pittonkatonk, Rec Room: Winter Games, Girls Get Lit, and Bah Humbug: Writers Wrestle the Holiday Spirit.
She mostly uses Twitter for cat pictures, but you can contact her @wordfarm.
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