Writers on the Bay Reading Series with Jim Daniels and Kristin Kovacic
Thursday, February 6, 2025 8pm to 9:30pm
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Biscayne Bay Campus
#englishdepartment, case, collegeofartsciencesandeducation,bbc,biscaynebaycampus,dasa,bayviewhousingKristin Kovacic’s essays have won the Pushcart Prize, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship, and the Orison Books Prize for Best Spiritual Writing, among other awards. Her work has appeared recently in Slate, Belt, The Coachella Review, Chautauqua, Table Magazine, and other publications. She is the author of the essay collection History of My Breath, the poetry chapbook, House of Women, and co-editor (with Lynne Barrett) of Birth: A Literary Companion. She has taught nonfiction writing at every level, including at Winchester Thurston School, the Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts, and in the graduate programs of Carlow University and Chatham University. She lives and works in a deconsecrated Catholic Church on the South Side of Pittsburgh.
Jim Daniels has authored thirty collections of poetry, seven collections of fiction, and four produced screenplays. His most recent books include The Luck of the Fall, fiction, and The Human Engine at Dawn and Comment Card, poetry. A collection of essays, An Ignorance of Trees, will be published in 2025. He is a recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and his work has been published in The Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize volumes. A native of Detroit, he lives in Pittsburgh, where he is the Thomas Stockham Baker University Professor Emeritus of English at Carnegie Mellon University. He currently teaches in the Alma College low-residency MFA Program.
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