Upcoming Events

Summary: Yona Harvey is a literary artist and university professor in creative writing who lives and works in Pittsburgh. She appears at Writers LIVE with her extraordinary debut poetry collection, Hemming the Water.

Summary: Jim O’Brien, Pittsburgh’s famous sports author, will discuss significant sports venues and events in the Oakland area, which was once the "playground" of Pittsburgh. Book signing to follow.

Summary: Rosaly DeMaios Roffman taught creative writing and founded a folklore/mythology center at Indian University of Pennsylvania.

Summary: Chip Walter, former CNN bureau chief, science writer, and Pittsburgh resident visits Writers LIVE with his new book, Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived.

Summary: Pittsburgh native and journalist Frank Garland tells the story of Pittsburgh Pirate Willie Stargell. Book signing to follow.

Summary: Rina Ferrarelli will read from The Bread We Ate, published by Guernica in 2012, a collection of tales of the tribe, four generations of Italian immigrants, herself included, “scattered/ across states and provinces, /three countries.”

Summary: Child Care in Black and White: Working Parents and the History of Orphanages tells the story of families here in Pittsburgh at the turn of the last century who used orphanages as a form of childcare during times of crisis. Book signing to follow.

Summary: Bill Steigerwald discusses his book Dogging Steinbeck, which reconsiders John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley as a fictionalized account of an American journey. Book signing to follow.