Pittsburgh is home to an incredible range of authors, publishing professionals, literary event organizers and opinion leaders.
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Biography
Pat Hart graduated from University of Pittsburgh with a BA in Creative Writing and lives in Pittsburgh where she writes plays, monologues, short stories, novels and a blog. Hart’s playwriting credits include acceptance, production and performance of her one-act play, Book Wench, in the Strawberry One-Act Festival, Summer 2015, New York, New York. The play was selected for the semi-finals and is under consideration for publication in The Best of the Strawberry One-Act Festival Anthology. Additionally, Hart’s 10-minute monologue, Murderous was selected by Carlow University’s Drama department and was performed during “Practice Monologamy” in September 2015.
Hart’s published short stories include “The Vigil,” which appeared in the September 2015 issue of The Writing Disorder, “New Wife vs. Old Wife,” a love story to be published in Voices in the Attic (Fall 2015), a literary anthology published by Carlow University and “Spider Ball,” which was published May 2015 in Rune, Robert Morris University’s literary magazine. “Spider Ball” was also selected as one of the pieces from the magazine to be read by the author at the launch party.
In addition to two novels in progress, Paddy, the Yank and Don’t Touch the Dragon Boogers, Hart also until recently wrote a weekly blog, Calamity Jane, World-Wide Warnings, that explored the humorous side of warnings signs from around the world.
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