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
Gabriel Welsch writes fiction and poetry, and is the author of four collections of poems: The Four Horsepersons of a Disappointing Apocalypse (Steel Toe Books, 2013); The Death of Flying Things (Word Tech Editions, 2012); An Eye Fluent in Gray (chapbook, Seven Kitchens Press, 2010); and Dirt and All Its Dense Labor (Word Tech Editions, 2006). His fiction and poetry have appeared widely, in journals including Ploughshares, Georgia Review, Thrush, Mid-American Review, Harvard Review, Missouri Review, as well as on Verse Daily and in Ted Kooser’s column “American Life in Poetry.” His story, “Groundscratchers,” originally published in The Southern Review, was named a Distinguished Story in the 2012 edition of The Best American Short Stories. Recent work appears in Adroit Journal, Crab Orchard Review, Gulf Coast, Chautauqua, Pembroke Review, Tahoma Literary Review, and Lake Effect. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his family, works as vice president of marketing and communications at Duquesne University, has published more than 150 book reviews, and is an occasional teacher at the Chautauqua Writer’s Center.
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