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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Biography
Catherine Gammon is a fiction writer and Soto Zen priest. Her novel Sorrow, published by Braddock Avenue Books in 2013, was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. Her novel Isabel Out of the Rain was published in 1991 by Mercury House, and her shorter fiction has appeared in literary journals for many years. She served on the faculty of the Master of Fine Arts program of the University of Pittsburgh before leaving the university to begin formal Zen training.
Gammon’s work has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the American Antiquarian Society, among others, and from colonies including the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Yaddo, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Djerassi. Her fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Agni, Iowa Review, North American Review, Manoa, Missouri Review, Kenyon Review, Other Voices, and The Collagist, among others. A current novel excerpt appears in New England Review, along with an online “Beyond the Byline” interview.
Gammon trained for twelve years in residence at San Francisco Zen Center, where in 2005 she was ordained a priest in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi by Tenshin Reb Anderson Roshi. Since serving as Shuso in 2010 at SFZC’s Green Dragon Temple/Green Gulch Farm, she has given teachings in Zen and writing in the U.K., in Brooklyn, in Pittsburgh, in Massachusetts, and at Green Gulch Farm. In 2017 she returned to live full time in Pittsburgh, and she frequently offers her Zen-based writing retreat, Writing As A Wisdom Project, here.
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