Next Week: Written/Spoken Series Featuring Stephen Ramey

Next week, we'll be meeting in VH 118 for the Written/Spoken Series. The reading begins at 7 p.m. Stephen Ramey is our guest writer. Visit his blog, Ramey Writes to learn more about Stephen (and the art of author-blogging). Audrey Antolovich, the author of the Suburban Hoofbeats blog, will open. Audrey will be reading fiction. Here are more details from the official press release:

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Stephen Ramey, Author of “Glass Animals,” Opens Spring Series

 

 

Stephen Ramey, author of the just-released short story collection, “Glass Animals,” opens the Spring season of Pitt-Greensburg’s Written/Spoken Series on Wednesday, Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. in Village Hall 118. The reading is free and open to the public.

            Senior English Writing major and fiction writer Audrey Antolovich will open.

            Ramey is an acclaimed author of contemporary and speculative fiction. “Glass Animals” (Pure Slush Books, 2013) is his first full-length collection.

            Kristine Ong Muslim, author of the flash-fiction collection “We Bury the Landscape,” called “Glass Animals” an “intimate look at a matador’s passion and pain, a bus driver’s brush with mortality, a jilted lover’s dilemma, a disfigured man who inhales his salvation, and a young man hounded by glass animals in a pool. Ramey takes on the richness of his characters’ emotional and physical torment and delivers something morbidly fascinating and keen. A great first collection!”

Ramey’s stories have been published in dozens of literary journals, including “Microliterature” and “Daily Science Fiction.”  He is the co-editor of the fiction anthologies “Triangulation: Steel Cities” (forthcoming 2013) and “Triangulation: Last Contact” (2010), as well as the sole editor of “Triangulation: Morning After” (2012).

He also edits “trapeze,” a twitter-based magazine, and blogs at  Ramey Writes (www.stephenvramey.com). He is an advocate and economic-development activist in his hometown, New Castle, Pa.

Antolovich will graduate from Pitt-Greensburg this Spring with a major in English Writing and a minor in English Literature. She’s currently completing a chapbook-length collection of short stories for her English Writing Capstone project. Her work has been published in “Pendulum” magazine. She blogs about trying to live the rural life in the suburbs at SuburbanHoofbeats.blogspot.com.

Written/Spoken is Pitt-Greensburg’s monthly community reading series. The series brings local and nationally-known poets and writers to campus for readings and workshops.

The series is sponsored by the university’s writing program and is free and open to the public. All readings begin at 7 p.m. in Village Hall. Book signings and receptions follow all events.

For more information about the series, contact Lori Jakiela, associate professor of English, at 724-836-7481 or e-mail loj@pitt.edu.

 

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