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
PJ Piccirillo is the author of Heartwood; The Indigo Scarf (Sunbury Press SUNNY Award winner); and Nunc Stans—A Ferry Tale. His work has twice won the Appalachian Writers Association Award for Short Fiction. An advocate of northern Appalachia’s under-recognized literature, PJ is the founder of the Writers Conference of Northern Appalachia (WCoNA) and the “Northern Appalachia Review,” for which he is the current editor-in-chief. He is a literary artist-in-residence for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. An instructor of English and Humanities at Butler County Community College, PJ holds an M.F.A. from the University of Southern Maine and a B.A. in English from Saint Francis University.
Inspired by the timberlands and red brick industrial burgs of Pennsylvania’s Allegheny Plateau where his ancestors settled to work woods, farms, tanneries, mines and rail sections, Piccirillo’s stories are as recognized for their sensitivity to their characters’ passions as for their depictions of conflicted hearts taking on their demons.
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