Brittany Hailer is a freelance reporter and educator based in Pittsburgh. For her stories of people affected by the opioid epidemic, she received a 2019 Golden Quill Award from the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania and a Robert L. Vann Award of Excellence for investigative/enterprise reporting from the Pittsburgh Black Media Federation. Her memoir and poetry collection "Animal You'll Surely Become" was published by Tolsun Books in 2018. Brittany has taught creative writing classes at the Allegheny County Jail and Sojourner House as part of Chatham’s Words Without Walls program and now teaches creative writing and journalism at the University of Pittsburgh. Her work as appeared in NPR, Fairy Tale Review, Hobart, Barrelhouse, and elsewhere.
