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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Whitney Hayes
Biography
Whitney Hayes is a Virginia native living in Pittsburgh, where she received her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Chatham University. Her work has appeared in Under the Gum Tree and Word Riot, and more recently online at RandomNerds.com. She is passionate about social justice work and has been an instructor for Words Without Walls, a program that brings creative writing to men and women in the Allegheny County Jail. Hayes is a co-curator for a new monthly literary event, the Hay Street Reading Series. She is currently writing short films, essays, and the odd sex poem.