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Glocal CitizensEpisode 274: Navigating Creativity with Wana UdobangGreetings Glocal Citizens!
As we hit the halfway mark on 2025 our treat this week is a thought-provoking conversation with Wana Udobang, a multifaceted writer, poet, performer, curator, and storyteller based in Lagos, Nigeria. I met Wana last year during the Pa Gya! Literary Festival in Accra where she faciliated her own unique writing workshop - “Comfort Food” a storytelling and poetry workshop that uses food as a conduit to explore memories, history, joy, and healing which was born out of her culinary quality time during the pandemic. In this lively conversation we cover Wana's extensive body of work...
2025-06-0359 min
blazpodcastWANA BEVERAGE JSC – YOUR ONE-STOP OEM/ODM BEVERAGE MANUFACTURER IN VIETNAMOverviewWana Beverage JSC, also known as Asia Food and Beverage JSC was founded in 2017 by Mike Nguyen; our mission has always been to be Vietnam’s top OEM beverage manufacturer and exporter, offering comprehensive services to beverage brand builders, distributors, and retailers across the globe. Today, our reach spans over 40 countries, including some of the most discerning markets in the industry—like the U.S., Europe, Australia, Japan, Korea, and China.Production CapabilityWe’re headquartered in Di An, Binh Duong—a strategic location just outside the bustling city of...
2024-11-0802 min
High Spirits: The Cannabis Business Podcast#066 - At the Helm of North America's #1 Edibles Brand w/ Joe Hodas, President at Wana BrandsSend us a textJoin us for this week's recording of 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝗦𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘀, where we're diving into the intricate world of Wana Brands, North America's leading edibles brand. We're sitting down with Joe Hodas, the recently appointed President of Wana, to discuss the brand's innovative strategies and his journey from Chief Marketing Officer to President.🚀 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲: In this discussion, Joe Hodas shares his experiences and the dynamic shifts within Wana Brands following its acquisition by Canopy Growth Corporation. We'll explore Wana's expansive approach across both cannabis and hemp markets, the inception of their new hemp marketplace, Wanderous, and the differences between the Canadian and U.S. markets.💡 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗬𝗼𝘂'𝗹𝗹 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻...
2024-11-0153 min
Lit & Lucid™ Cannabis PodcastE.158 - Cannabis Science and Education ft. Mike Hennesy VP of Innovation at Wana BrandsJoining us for today's episode is Mike Hennesy, VP of Innovation at Wana Brands. With roots in Boulder, CO, and expansion across the U.S. Wana has been named North America’s most trusted edible brand. It’s easy to see why, for over a decade Wana has focused on high-quality ingredients, innovation, as well as focusing on impacting the communities in which they serve.
Learn more about Mike's educational background including being one of the first to graduate with a Master’s Program for Cannabis Science and Therapeutics at The University of Maryland. We talk more about t...
2022-05-0538 min
Enhance Your Life PodcastWait, An Edible That Can Make You Less Hungry?It’s long been accepted that the edible experience and “the munchies” go hand in hand. But one edible is aiming to change that. In this episode, Arthur Jaffe joins Jonathan to discuss a new type of gummy hitting the market that actually curbs your hunger. Arthur is the CEO of ECS Brands, a company that’s in the business of providing unique whole-plant extracts to brands, manufacturers, and processors around the world. On the pod, Arthur talks about developing the Wana Optimals Fit Gummy in partnership with Wana Brands, as well as the positive results people have been seeing w...
2021-12-2222 minEnhance Your Life PodcastSarah Woodson Is Finding Justice for Those Impacted by the War on DrugsSarah Woodson believes that the best way you can repair and restore a community is by providing people with the resources to help themselves. As the Founder of The Color of Cannabis, Sarah and her team are working to provide a pathway for restorative justice to those negatively impacted by the war on drugs. She joins Jonathan this week to talk about the urgent need behind better minority representation in the cannabis industry, and the issue of ownership in cannabis. Sarah talks about the challenges she had to overcome while building both the non-profit and legislative parts of her...
2021-09-0120 minEnhance Your Life PodcastCannabis Art and NFTsJonathan welcomes guest Ciara Bourne, graphic designer and digital artist based in Denver, CO. Ciara took her passion for social justice, social equity, and environmentalism and created a one of a kind digital NFT to raise money and awareness for the Cannabis Impact Fund, a joint venture that Wana Brands is also involved in. Jonathan first breaks down exactly what an NFT is and why they are valuable. Ciara also gives advice to young budding artists, why they may be interested in creating NFT's, and the power she found using a contrast of tackling serious issues with a light h...
2021-07-1422 minEnhance Your Life PodcastInside Wana Brands: How The Company Managed the PandemicAdapting as a company wasn't easy over the pandemic, but Wana Brands put their minds together and created new resources, creative strategies, and the same great products. This week we get a glimpse behind the curtains and hear from our friends at team Wana Brands, Joe Hodas, Chief Marketing Officer, and Stephanie Daley, VP of Market Expansion. They share how Wana not only survived but thrived over the past year despite limitations and travel bans, getting creative with R&D training programs and more remote operations. Joe and Stephanie also talk about what's next for Wana and new digital...
2021-06-2328 min
WANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Amy Clark SpainAmy Clark was born in the heart of the Appalachian mountains of Virginia and teaches at the University of Virginia's College at Wise. She is the 2012 recipient of the Jean Ritchie Fellowship in Appalachian Writing. Her book, TALKING APPALACHIAN details the history and features of Appalachian dialects, as well as pieces by well-known authors about what it means to speak them. She is founder and Director of the Appalachian Writing Project, a non-profit organization for teachers whose mission is to improve the teaching of writing in rural schools. Her articles and essays have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers....
2021-06-1925 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Cat PleskaCat Pleska, author, educator, publisher, and oral historian, holds an MFA in creative nonfiction writing. Her memoir, Riding on Comets was published by West Virginia University Press, 2015. Cat edited three anthologies and her essays have appeared in Still: The Journal, Heartwood Magazine, Change 7 Magazine, and many others.
2021-06-1914 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Cody McDevitt & Dan ReidmillerIn honor of baseball season, WANA is featuring a double header tonight! Cody McDevitt is an investigative reporter based in Pittsburgh. He's written several books, including his most recent, Banished from Johnstown: Racist Backlash in Pennsylvania, which details one of the worst racial injustices in western Pennsylvania history. More than 2,000 Black and Latino people were forced from their homes after a racially charged police shooting. He is currently working on his next book about the history of the abortion rights movement. Dan Reidmiller is a short-story writer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A recent graduate of Chatham...
2021-06-1940 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Liz AhlLiz Ahl is the author of Beating the Bounds (Hobblebush Books, 2017), as well as several chapbooks of poetry, including A Thirst That’s Partly Mine, winner of the 2008 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Prize. She lives in Holderness, New Hampshire and teaches writing at Plymouth State University.
2021-06-1920 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Patricia ThrushartPatricia Thrushart has published three books of poetry, Little Girl Against The Wall, Yin and Yang, and Sanctity: Poems from Northern Appalachia. Her work appears regularly in The Watershed Journal, a regional literary magazine of Northwestern Pennsylvania, and on the website North/South Appalachia. Her poems have been published in Tiny Seed, Clarion University’s Tobeco, The Avocet, Still Point Arts Quarterly, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Bridge Literary Arts Journal, Feminine Collective, Curating Alexandria, High Shelf Press, and The Northern Appalachia Review. Several of her poems have won awards from both the Pennsylvania Poetry Society and the National Federation of St...
2021-06-1924 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Ron DonougheA native of Loretto, Pennsylvania now living in Pittsburgh, Ron Donoughe is best known for his spirited realistic landscape paintings of Western Pennsylvania. He has a B.A. in Art Education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and has studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California.Like many painters he has held a variety of odd jobs – landscaper, gravedigger, chicken catcher, art teacher, museum installer, graphic designer, and college instructor.He works full time now as a professional artist/painter. His work can be found in many corporate and private collections as we...
2021-06-1926 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Savannah SippleSavannah Sipple is the author of WWJD & Other Poems (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019), which was included on the American Library Association's Over the Rainbow Recommended LGBTQ Reading List. It explores what it is to be a queer woman in Appalachia and is rooted in its culture and in her body. A writer from east Kentucky, her writing has been published in Go Magazine, Southern Cultures, Split This Rock, Salon, and other places. She is also the recipient of grants from the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and the Kentucky Foundation for Women. A professor, editor, and writing mentor, Savannah...
2021-06-1922 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - David DrayerJoin us at Watershed Books on Main Street in Brookville, PA for WANA LIVE!'s very first in-person reading and book signing with David Drayer. Book signing begins at 6:30 PM, which will be followed by a reading at 7:00 PM. David Drayer is the author of the novels Strip Cuts, A Noble Story, Something Fierce, the novella, Attachment, and the autobiographical collection, Wayward Son: Travels and Reflections. Born in the small town of Rimersburg, Pennsylvania, Drayer has lived in Los Angeles, New York, and many cities in between. He holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and has...
2021-06-1915 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Judi TarowskyJudi Tarowsky was a newspaper reporter and editor for more than 25 years and wrote other people’s stories. Now, as a storyteller, she gets to tell her own.She discovered storytelling in 2006, and after winning first place in the inaugural Strand Theater Preservation Society Storytelling Festival Liar’s Contest in Moundsville, WV, began her study of the craft in earnest. She went on to earn a Graduate Certificate in Storytelling from the University of North Texas Library Sciences program.Since then, Judi has performed at festivals, libraries, museums, and special events in West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Sout...
2021-06-1917 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Ed SimonEd Simon is an Editor-at-Large for The Marginalia Review of Books, a channel of The Los Angeles Review of Books, a contributing editor for the History News Network, and a staff writer at The Millions, which the New York Times has called the “indispensable literary site.” He is the author of several books, most recently Furnace of this World; or, 36 Observations about Goodness.His essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The Paris Review Daily, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Poetry, McSweeney’s, Aeon, Jacobin, Salon, The New Republic and The New York Times among dozens of others.Curren...
2021-06-1927 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Ed MclanahanEd McClanahan, a native of northeastern Kentucky, is the author of The Natural Man, Famous People I Have Known, and five other books, most recently Not Even Immortality Lasts Forever (Counterpoint, 2020). He is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, two Yaddo Fellowships, and an Al Smith Fellowship. He and his wife Hilda live in Lexington, Kentucky.
2021-06-1914 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Tiffany WilliamsTiffany Williams is a native of Eastern Kentucky. She is a coal miner's daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter and an exciting emerging voice who crafts achingly beautiful songs about what it means, in her experience, to be from the Appalachian Mountains.Her debut EP, When You Go, released January 18, 2019, features five tracks, all of which were penned by the artist and are a meditation on life in the mountains—a place, as echoed in the title track, that "you can't leave […] when you go."In addition to her keen abilities as a songwriter, Tiffany is an award-winning fict...
2021-06-1918 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Jennifer HaighJoin us as we celebrate WANA LIVE!'s first birthday! Our writer this week is the incomparable Jennifer Haigh AND we will be announcing an exciting new WANA LIVE! initiative as a thank you for being here with us this past year. JENNIFER HAIGH is a novelist and short story writer. Her novel HEAT AND LIGHT won a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was named a Best Book of 2016 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and NPR. Her previous books include FAITH, THE CONDITION, BAKER TOWERS...
2021-06-1928 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Alison Stinelison Stine grew up in rural Ohio. Her first novel Road Out of Winter is a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. Her other books include three collections of poetry. Recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and National Geographic, she has published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. Her next novel Trashlands will be published by MIRA/HarperCollins in October.* * * * * * * * * *http://www.alisonstine.com
2021-06-1918 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Sandee GertzSandee Gertz is a native of Western Pennsylvania and the author of The Pattern Maker's Daughter (Poems, Bottom Dog Press). Her poetry has appeared in Poet Lore, Gargoyle, Green Mountains Review, and more. The Write Launch has recently featured her memoir writing. She is a Sandburg-Livesay Award winner and was featured as one of 16 Working Class Poets in World Literature Today. She teaches at Cumberland University outside of Nashville and has a M.F.A. from Wilkes University.
2021-06-1917 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Ellen McGrath SmithEllen McGrath Smith teaches at the University of Pittsburgh. Her poetry has appeared in The New York Times, The American Poetry Review, Talking Writing, Los Angeles Review, and other journals and anthologies. Books include Scatter, Feed (Seven Kitchens 2014) and Nobody's Jackknife (West End Press 2015).
2021-06-1921 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Omope Carter DaboikuOmope Carter Daboiku grew up in Ironton along the Ohio River in Lawrence County, Ohio, defined as northcentral Appalachia; and, cherished annual family trips “back home” to extended families living in both the Blue Ridge of Virginia and the Smokies along the TN/GA borderlands. Trained as a cultural geographer, her writing explores the dynamics of her mixed ancestry family, migration, and the internal angst of being a “hillbilly” in brown skin.A professional storyteller since 1990, Omope’s original works can be found in the Anthology of Appalachian Writers (Shepherd University) and Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel (Southern Appalachian Writers Co...
2021-06-1920 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Tommy DeanTommy Dean is the author of the flash fiction chapbook Special Like the People on TV from Redbird Chapbooks. The Editor at Fractured Lit, Dean’s work has appeared in the BULL Magazine, The MacGuffin, The Lascaux Review, New World Writing, Pithead Chapel, and New Flash Fiction Review. His stories have been included in the Best Microfiction 2019 and 2020. He is the winner of the Lascaux Review Short Story Prize 2019. Find him @TommyDeanWriter on Twitter.
2021-06-1910 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - John LawsonJohn Lawson has taught writing and rhetoric at Robert Morris University for twenty-two years. His poetry collection, Generations, was published by the St. Andrews University Press, and his poems have appeared in Main Street Rag, Vox Populi, and many other print and online venues. He also writes plays and stories
2021-06-1914 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Sherrie FlickSherrie Flick is the author of the novel Reconsidering Happiness and two short story collections, Whiskey, Etc. and Thank Your Lucky Stars. Her stories have been performed for Selected Shorts and appear in Ploughshares, New World Writing, and Wigleaf, as well as Flash Fiction Forward, New Sudden Fiction, and New Micro. She is co-editor for Flash Fiction America, forthcoming from Norton in 2022.
2021-06-1914 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Jason IrwinJason Irwin is the author of The History of Our Vagrancies (forthcoming, Main Street Rag), A Blister of Stars (Low Ghost, 2016), & Watering the Dead (Pavement Saw Press, 2008). He earned an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife writer Jen Ashburn, and currently is working on a memoir. www.jasonirwin.blogspot.com
2021-06-1909 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Jamilla RiceJamilla Rice dreams of when she can own her days and write. Until then, she squeezes out moments during her time as an athlete, educator, speaker, aunt, gardener, book nerd, baker, and British detective drama junkie. Her work has been published in previous volumes of Voices from the Attic and Pittsburgh Poetry Review, among other anthologies and periodicals. You may have heard her read at Hemmingways, White Whale Books, Delanie’s Coffee House, on WESA’s Prosody, or that one open mic in Toronto.Her work includes poetry, short fiction, flash nonfiction and combinations of all of the above and...
2021-06-1913 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Jacinda TownsendJacinda Townsend is the author of Kif, which is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2022, and Saint Monkey (Norton, 2014), which is set in 1950’s Eastern Kentucky and won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for historical fiction. Saint Monkey was also the 2015 Honor Book of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.
2021-06-1913 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - James CharlesworthJames Charlesworth’s first novel, The Patricide of George Benjamin Hill, was published in 2019. His writing has appeared in Natural Bridge and was awarded finalist status in Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers. He was also the recipient of a Martin Dibner Fellowship. James grew up eighty miles east of Pittsburgh, attended Penn State University, and received an MFA from Emerson College in Boston, where he currently lives.
2021-06-1924 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Leslie Ann McilroyLeslie Anne Mcilroy won the 1997 Slipstream Poetry Chapbook Prize for Gravel, the 2001 Word Press Poetry Prize for her first full-length collection Rare Space, the 1997 Chicago Literary Awards and the 2018 Gemini Flash Fiction contest. The publication of her nonfiction first, The Red Door: A Historical Memoire of The Squirrel Hill Cafe is forthcoming in fall, 2020.
2021-06-1917 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Amy Jo BurnsAmy Jo Burns is the author of the memoir Cinderland and Shiner, a novel which is out now from Riverhead Books. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review Daily, Tin House, Ploughshares, Good Housekeeping, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, and the anthology Not That Bad.
2021-06-1914 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Sheila SquillanteSHEILA SQUILLANTE is the author of the poetry collection, Beautiful Nerve, and three chapbooks of poetry: In This Dream of My Father, Women Who Pawn Their Jewelry and A Woman Traces the Shoreline. Her second collection, Mostly Human, has won the 2020 Wicked Woman Book Prize from BrickHouse Books and will be published in October, 2020. She is also co-author, along with Sandra L. Faulkner, of the writing craft book, Writing the Personal: Getting Your Stories Onto the Page (Sense Publishers, 2015).Recent work has appeared or will appear in places like Copper Nickel, Crab Orchard Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Indiana Review...
2021-06-1916 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Michael DittmanMichael Dittman lives and writes near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania surrounded by the palimpsest of the Appalachian Rust Belt and its ghosts. He’s worked at bike shops, in newsrooms, and on top of roofs, but today he can be found more often at the front of a classroom. He is the author of Jack Kerouac; A Biography, Masterpieces of the Beat Generation, and Small Brutal Incidents. His short stories and poetry, as well as his journalism and non-fiction, are widely published. Contact him at www.Michaeldittman.com
2021-06-1915 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Laura Jackson RobertsLaura Jackson Roberts is an environmental writer and humorist from northern West Virginia. She holds degrees in environmental science and creative writing. A graduate of Chatham University, her work has appeared in many publications, including Hippocampus, Terrain.org, Brevity, Defenestration, Brain-Child, Bayou Magazine, The Museum of Americana, Animal, and the Erma Bombeck humor site. She's served as an editor for Literary Mama Magazine and is a VP of West Virginia Writers, the state’s largest writing and literary organization. Laura lives and does freelance work in Wheeling, where she writes for Weelunk and is finishing a book of humorous essays on...
2021-06-1913 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Joseph BathantiJoseph Bathanti, son of a union steelworker and union seamstress, respectively, grew up in Pittsburgh. He is the former Poet Laureate of North Carolina (2012-14) and recipient of the 2016 North Carolina Award in Literature. He is the author of ten books of poetry, four books of fiction, and two books of nonfiction. Bathanti is McFarlane Family Distinguished Professor of Interdisciplinary Education & Writer-in-Residence of Appalachian State University’s Watauga Residential College in Boone, NC.
2021-06-1920 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Brittany HailerBrittany 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...
2021-06-1912 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Jeremy B. JonesJeremy is the author of Bearwallow: A Personal History of a Mountain Homeland (Blair, 2014), which won the 2014 Appalachian Book of the Year in nonfiction and was awarded gold in the 2015 Independent Publisher Book (IPPY) Awards in memoir. His essays have been named Notable in Best American Essays and published in Oxford American, The Iowa Review, and Brevity, among others. Jeremy earned his MFA from the University of Iowa and is an associate professor of English at Western Carolina University, in his native North Carolina. He also serves as the series co-editor for In Place: a literary nonfiction book series from...
2021-06-1913 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - John HoppenthalerJohn Hoppenthaler’s books of poetry are Domestic Garden (2015), Anticipate the Coming Reservoir (2008), and Lives of Water (2003), all with Carnegie Mellon University Press. His poetry and essays have appeared in many journals, anthologies, and textbooks, including New York Magazine, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Southern Review, Christian Science Monitor, Southeast Review, The Laurel Review, The Florida Review, West Branch, The Literary Review, Blackbird, New York Magazine, Making Poems: 40 Poems with Commentary by the Poets (State U of New York P, 2010), September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond (Etruscan Press, 2002), Blooming through the Ashes: An International Anthology on Violence and the Huma...
2021-06-1917 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Deesha PhilyawDeesha Philyaw’s debut short story collection, THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES, focuses on Black women, sex, and the Black church and is a finalist for the National Book Award. Deesha is also the co-author of Co-Parenting 101: Helping Your Kids Thrive in Two Households After Divorce, written in collaboration with her ex-husband. Her work has been listed as Notable in the Best American Essays series, and her writing on race, parenting, gender, and culture has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, McSweeney’s, The Rumpus, Brevity, dead housekeeping, Apogee Journal, Catapult, Harvard Review, ESPN’s The Undefe...
2021-06-1917 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - PA Wilds Podcasters-Mark Sanko & Jeffrey DiamondClarion University professors, Dr. Marc Sanko and Dr. Jeffrey Diamond, recently launched the podcast “Stories from the Pennsylvania Wilds,” where they showcase these important pieces of history from across the Wilds region. Join us as they talk about the genesis of their show and what's coming up next.
2021-06-1926 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Low Ghost Press (Taylor Grieshober & Bart Solarczyk)Taylor Grieshober is the author of the short story collection Off Days, published by Low Ghost Press in 2019. Her most recent story was awarded third place in the Masters Review Winter Short Story Contest, judged by Kimberly King Parsons. Her other work has appeared in Hobart and Gulf Stream, among others. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Oregon State University. She lives in Pittsburgh, where she is a high school fiction teacher. Bart Solarczyk lives in Pittsburgh, PA with his daughter, dog and cat. His poems have recently appeared in Big Hammer, Live Nude Poems, Rasputin, Winedrunk...
2021-06-1920 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Michael KnostMichael Knost is a Bram Stoker Award®-winning editor and author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and supernatural thrillers. He has written in various genres and helmed multiple anthologies. His Writers Workshop of Horror won the 2009 Bram Stoker Award® in England for superior achievement in non-fiction. His critically acclaimed Writers Workshop of Science Fiction & Fantasy is an Amazon #1 bestseller. Return of the Mothman, Barbers and Beauties, and Author’s Guide to Marketing with Teeth were all finalists for the Bram Stoker Award®. Michael is the host of a new podcast called The Author’s Voice. He received the Horror...
2021-06-1941 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Kristofer CollinsKRISTOFER COLLINS is the publisher at Low Ghost Press and the books editor at Pittsburgh Magazine. He is the co-host of the Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series. Over the years, he created a literary name for himself with projects such as The New Yinzer and The Bridge Series. HIs latest book is THE RIVER IS ANOTHER KIND OF PRAYER: NEW & SELECTED POEMS. Collins lives in Pittsburgh, PA with his wife Dr. Anna Johnson and their son Cassidy.
2021-06-1915 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Chauna CraigChauna Craig is professor of Creative Writing at Indiana University of Pennsylvania where she has also served as Director of Women Studies and Dean’s Associate of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her writing has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Fourth Genre, Superstition Review, Smokelong Quarterly and elsewhere. Her work has been designated a finalist in Terrain.org’s Environmental Writing contest, a Notable Essay in Best American Essays, and an honorable mention in the Pushcart Prize series. She has received fellowships to Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her short story collection, The Widow’s Guid...
2021-06-1914 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series- THANKSGIVING - Marc HarshmanMarc Harshman is the new poet laureate of West Virginia. A full-length collection of poems, GREEN-SILVER AND SILENT, has just been published by Bottom Dog Press. Four chapbooks of poems include ROSE OF SHARON, Mad River Press, MA. Periodical publications include Shenandoah, The Georgia Review, The Progressive, Appalachian Heritage, and Fourteen Hills. Poems have been anthologized by Kent State University, the University of Iowa, University of Georgia, and the University of Arizona. Short prose works have recently been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His eleven children’s books include THE STORM, a Smithsonian Notable Book. His children's books have also be...
2021-06-1917 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Kim ChinqueeKim Chinquee is the author of seven collections, most recently Snowdog, due out in January 2021 with Ravenna Press. She is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes and has published in several joumals and anthologies including Noon, Denver Quarterly, Fiction, Story, StoryQuarterly, New Miro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, Buffalo Noir, Conjunctions, The Best Small Fiction 2019 and others. She is Senior Editor for New World Writing, and an associate professor of English at SUNY-Buffalo State.
2021-06-1914 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Byron HootByron Hoot was born and raised in Morgantown, West Virginia and lived there until he went to college - a twelve year excursion. He never returned to West Virginia but he never left it. Appalachia, the hills and streams, the people, his memories of those first eighteen years are deeply embedded. Now he lives in northwestern Pennsylvania... still in Appalachia. He has recently had poems in The Watershed Journal, Tobeco Literary Arts Journal, and The Pittsburgh Post Gazette and in Pennessence. He is a co-founder of The Tamarack Writers (1974) and The Fernwood Writers Retreat (2019).You can find Hoot's...
2021-06-1906 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Karen WeyantBorn and raised in rural Pennsylvania, Karen J. Weyant is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Stealing Dust (Finishing Line Press) and Wearing Heels in the Rust Belt (Main Street Rag). Her poems and essays have appeared in Chautauqua, Copper Nickel, Crab Creek Review, Crab Orchard Review, cream city review, Fourth River, Lake Effect, Rattle, River Styx and Whiskey Island. Her poems have also appeared in Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry Series and the Sundress Publications Best of the Net annual anthology. She lives in Warren, Pennsylvania and is an Associate Professor of English at Jamestown Community College in...
2021-06-1910 minEnhance Your Life PodcastHOW THE CANNABIS INDUSTRY IS HELPING TO REGROW AND REPAIR THE COMMUNITIES HARMED BY THE WAR ON DRUGS Jeannette Horton is the executive director of NuLeaf Project, a project designed to build generational wealth for communities most affected by cannabis prohibition by providing funding, mentoring, and skill building. She shares her story on becoming involved in the cannabis business, and what led her to the realization that we greatly need to fix the racial divide in the industry. Ultimately, Jeannette’s cannabis related arrest served as inspiration to work in the industry. Jonathan and Jeannette also discuss the paradox that exists in the cannabis industry, as it is considered a “liberal” industry, yet minorities and people of color remain...
2021-04-1423 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Christina VeladotaChristina Veladota's poetry has appeared in many literary journals, including Glass: A Journal of Poetry, The Laurel Review, The Journal, Bellingham Review, Dialogist, Hotel Amerika, and Mid American Review. The author of two chapbooks, Clutch & Brood (Aldrich Press, 2016) and The Girl & Her Lions (Finishing Line Press, 2010), she currently serves as an associate professor of English Composition & Literature at Washington State Community College in Marietta, Ohio, where she is also the coordinator of The WSCC Honors Program. She was a finalist for a 2020 Sustainable Arts Foundation grant and is a recipient of a 2020 Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council.
2021-03-2130 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Sarah ShotlandSarah Shotland is the author of the novel Junkette, and her essays have been published in The lowa Review, Baltimore Review, and Creative Nonfiction. She is Program Director of Words Without Walls, which brings creative writing to jails, prisons, and drug treatment centers in Pittsburgh & teaches in the MFA program at Chatham Universit
2021-03-2118 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Kari Gunter SeymourKari Gunter-Seymour is a ninth generation Appalachian and editor the Women of Appalachia Project anthologies, "Women Speak," volumes 1-6 and "Essentially Athens Ohio," an anthology focused on landmarks, tales and experiences of those living in or deeply connected to Athens county. She holds a B.F.A. in graphic design and an M.A. in commercial photography and is a retired instructor in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. A poem she wrote in support of families living in poverty in Athens County, OH, went viral and has been seen by over 100,000 people, resulting in thousands...
2021-03-2112 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - New Year, New WritersJoin us on New Year's Eve as we celebrate the work of emerging writers from four graduate programs throughout northern Appalachia.Nathaniel Ricketts is a poet from Pittsburgh and a 5th-year student in the Penn State English department's BA/MA program in creative writing. He is currently working on his master's thesis, a chap-book length collection of poems focused on class struggle and environmental politics in the Rust Belt.Matthew Dougherty grew up in Ohio and is a third-year fiction student in the MFA program at West Virginia University. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming...
2021-03-2136 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - PK HarmonP.K. Harmon is the Founding Editor of Al in Aelon Kein: the Marshall Islands Literary Review and former theatre director and Humanities professor of the College of the Marshall Islands. A graduate of Ohio University's Program in Creative Writing, he was recently Visiting Professor of Creative Writing for the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. He is currently a writing professor at the University of Guam. He has had individual poems published recently in Riverwind, The Marshall Islands Journal, and the Laurel Review.
2021-03-2116 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Matt FerenceMatthew Ferrence wandered away from his birthplace in southwestern Pennsylvania to live in the high desert of southern Arizona, then in the urban cultural center of Paris, France. Pulled by shared geographies of their home Appalachians, he and his wife returned to the Laurel Highlands, settled there, became unsettled, then settled again in Northwestern Pennsylvania at the confluence of Appalachia and the Rust Belt. His essays have appeared in literary magazines across North America, with recent work appearing in The Fiddlehead, Gettysburg Review, and Best American Travel Writing 2018. He is the author of two books, the latest – Appalachia North: a me...
2021-03-2127 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Nancy KrygowskiNancy Krygowski is the author of The Woman in the Corner (University of Pittsburgh Press) which was named one of the top 100 (or so) books of poetry for 2020 by Library Journal. Her first book, Velocity, won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press. Nancy teaches English to refugees and immigrants in addition to leading poetry workshops at Carlow University’s Madwomen in the Attic writing program.
2021-03-2114 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Ligonier Valley Writers Student Poetry Award WinnersLigonier Valley Writers has just announced that students from schools throughout western Pennsylvania have won awards in LVW's 29th annual Student Poetry Awards. Two of those writers--Sonya Verbina and AnnMarie Stephenson--will be featured on WCONA LIVE! with special guest hosts, Ondine Dressick and Tristan Greer. Sonya Verbina, a fourth-grader at the Valley School of Ligonier, won the Walter McGough Memorial Award, sponsored by the family of Walter McGough and Ligonier Valley Writers, for “The Aztec Animal.” Category B, Chestnut Ridge Literary Poetry Award. Sponsored by Lou and Barbara Steiner. Sonya's Bio: Hi, my name is Sonya. I'm almost 10 year...
2021-03-2108 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Jess WeibleJess Weible is a freelance writer and reporter. Her writing has been featured in the Huffington Post and various local news outlets. Her column featuring writers of the Pennsylvania Wilds appears every month in the Brookville Mirror. Jess's poetry has been published in the Apeiron Review and the Tobeco Journal. Her fiction appears in the Bridge Literary Arts Journal. She is also a founding editor for The Watershed Journal, an inclusive, regional literary magazine for the western Pennsylvania wilds.Jess leads two writing groups, the Writer's Block Party and the Rebecca M. Arthur's Young Writers. She lives with...
2021-03-2132 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Kayla SargesonKayla Sargeson is the author of the full-length collection First Red (Main Street Rag, 2016) and the chapbooks BLAZE (Main Street Rag, 2015) and Mini Love Gun (Main Street Rag, 2013). With Lisa Alexander, she co-curates the Laser Cat reading series
2021-03-2110 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Karen CraigoKaren Craigo is the Poet Laureate of the State of Missouri. She is the author of two full-length collections (Passing Through Humansville, 2018, and No More Milk, 2016, both from Sundress Publications), as well as three chapbooks. She hails from Gallipolis, Ohio, and now lives and works in Springfield, Missouri.
2021-03-2119 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Lori JakielaShedding his cells every seven years (as our species is so inclined) Jared A. Conti is but a shell of his former self. This is not his final form.A native of Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, and writer-in-residence at Lock Haven University, Jared has tried to cleave on multiple occasions. He even went to such extremes as to moped across these fine United States. This did not end well.As luck should have it, his adventures crop up time and again in being one half of the singer-songwriter duo The Echo & Sway, and in his non-fiction, comics...
2021-03-2116 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Jared ContiShedding his cells every seven years (as our species is so inclined) Jared A. Conti is but a shell of his former self. This is not his final form.A native of Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, and writer-in-residence at Lock Haven University, Jared has tried to cleave on multiple occasions. He even went to such extremes as to moped across these fine United States. This did not end well.As luck should have it, his adventures crop up time and again in being one half of the singer-songwriter duo The Echo & Sway, and in his non-fiction, comics...
2021-03-2115 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Sue PowersSue Powers grew up outside of Pittsburgh in a family with deep roots in the musical landscape of Western Pennsylvania. Powers is a founding member of the group Devilish Merry, where she pioneered the use of the five-string banjo in Celtic music. The group has released three recordings featuring her playing, singing and song writing.
2021-03-2116 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Wendy McVickerWendy McVicker currently the poet laureate of Athens, Ohio, and has been writing and stirring up poetry wherever she can (often through the Ohio Arts Council's Arts Learning program) for a lot of years. Her chapbook, The Dancer's Notes, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2016. Her most recent publications have been in the anthology The BOOM Project: Voices of a Generation (eds. Kimberly Garts Crum and Bonnie Omer Johnson) and in Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel.
2021-03-2111 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Heather MoserHeather Moser grew up in the foothills of Appalachia. She is a classics professor, author, and researcher. Her areas of study include moral panics, particularly related to the Bacchic cult during the Roman Republic and the European Witch Craze of the 14th-17th centuries, the fluctuation of Julius Caesar's memory throughout history, the preservation and transmission of Appalachian folklore, and lore related to and evolving from cursed objects.Diving into her Appalachian roots, Heather is an active member of the Writer's Conference of Northern Appalachia as well the literary journal Northern Appalachia Review. She has also served as...
2021-03-2115 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Brent HouseBrent House, a contributing editor for The Tusculum Review, is a native of Necaise, Mississippi, where he raised cattle and watermelons on his family’s farm. Slash Pine Press published his first collection, The Saw Year Prophecies, and his poems have appeared in journals such as Cream City Review, Denver Quarterly, The Journal, Third Coast and Kenyon Review. He teaches creative writing at California University of Pennsylvania.
2021-03-2118 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Nichola MorettiNichola Moretti is an adjunct instructor of writing in the Robert Morris University journalism concentration and the Community College of Allegheny County North and West English Department. Among other roles, she has worked as a photographer, writer and editor, embracing each assignment as an extension of her creativity. Nichola just received a second Golden Quill nomination for her work with Mt. Lebanon Magazine. Raised in the Ohio Hill Country, she now calls greater Pittsburgh her home.
2021-03-2114 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Margo Orlando LittellMargo Orlando Littell is the author of the novels The Distance from Four Points and Each Vagabond by Name, both published by the University of New Orleans Press. Each Vagabond by Name won the University of New Orleans Publishing Lab Prize and an IPPY Awards Gold Medal for Mid-Atlantic Fiction and was named one of fifteen great Appalachian novels by Bustle. That story, about a band of itinerant thieves who wreak havoc on a small Pennsylvania town, was based on actual events that occurred when traveling thieves appeared in the area in the early 2000s. Margo received an MFA from...
2021-03-2109 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Neema AvashiaNeema Avashia was born and raised in southern West Virginia, the daughter of Indian immigrant parents who moved to Appalachia in the early 70s so her father could work in the chemical industry. She has lived and worked in Boston for the last 17 years as a Civics teacher in a public middle school. Her writing has appeared at The Bitter Southerner, Catapult, and the Kenyon Review Online.
2021-03-2112 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Connie KinseyConnie Kinsey is an award-wining writer living in a converted barn on a dirt road at the top of a hill in West Virginia with two dogs, a cat and the occasional squirrel. Her work has been published online and in print. She writes both fiction and nonfiction.
2021-03-2108 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Barbara EdelmenBarbara Edelman’s poetry collections include Dream of the Gone-From City (Carnegie Mellon University Press 2017) and the chapbooks Exposure and A Girl in Water. Her work is forthcoming or has recently appeared in Spillway, Pleiades, Talking Writing and Raleigh Review. She teaches writing at the University of Pittsburgh where she co-coordinates the Writers’ Café.
2021-03-2111 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE READING SERIES - Wesley Scott McMastersWesley Scott McMasters is a poet from Northern Appalachia (Patton, PA) who now resides in East Tennessee (Jefferson City) with his dog Poet ("He came with the name--I swear!"), and he teaches American Lit and Creative Writing at Carson-Newman University. His first book of poems, TRYING TO BE A PERSON, was published in 2016 (Words Dance) and the next, IN WHICH MY LOVER TELLS ME ABOUT THE NATURE OF WILD THINGS, is due from Mammoth Books this year.
2021-03-2111 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series Larry SmithLarry Smith is a native of the industrial Ohio River Valley having grown up in Mingo Junction, Ohio., the second of four children. His father was a brakeman on the railroad of Weirton Steel where the author worked two summers to help pay for college. A graduate of Mingo High School, Muskingum College, and Kent State University, he taught at Bowling Green State University’s Firelands College from 1970 to 2012. He is the author of eight previous books of poetry, two books of memoirs, five books of fiction, two literary biographies of authors Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Kenneth Patchen. Larry...
2021-03-2106 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE Reading Series - Arlan HessSpecial Guest Arlan Hess Owner of City Books On Pittsburgh’s North Side
2021-03-2123 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Todd SnyderDr. Todd D. Snyder is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at Siena College in Albany, New York. He received a B.A. and an M.A. in English from Marshall University (2004, 2006) and a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from Ohio University (2011). Snyder is the author of The Rhetoric of Appalachian Identity and 12 Rounds in Lo’s Gym: Boxing and Manhood in Appalachia. His scholarly research draws from a variety of fields: rhetoric and composition, community literacy studies, communications studies, cultural studies, and critical theory. Snyder also teaches a course at Siena College in hip-hop studies an...
2021-03-2123 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Maria Romasco MooreMaria Romasco Moore is the author of Some Kind of Animal, a novel, and Ghostographs, an interconnected collection of flash fiction inspired by vintage photographs. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Lightspeed, DIAGRAM, Hobart, Interfictions, Kaleidotrope, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and the anthology Women Destroy Science Fiction. She is a graduate of the Clarion West Writer’s Workshop and has an MFA from Southern Illinois University. She teaches writing at Columbus College of Art and Design.
2021-03-2122 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Megan Schreiber CarterMegan Schreiber-Carter is a third-generation native of Elk County, PA, and a career writer. She’s spent much of her career in Washington, D.C.. Her clients include—a national, news-wire service; Discovery Neworks; and, National Geographic. Megan has taught for—American University, George Washington University, the University of the District of Columbia, and The International Center for Language Studies. She also taught the little people as a Calvert Home-School teacher, when her child was in grade school. Now that her child is grown, Megan spends much of her time in the Elk County home her family has owned for 90 of the...
2021-03-2109 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Hayley Mitchell HaugenHayley Mitchell Haugen holds a PhD in English from Ohio University and an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington; she is Professor of English at Ohio University Southern in southeastern Ohio. Light & Shadow, Shadow & Light from Main Street Rag Publishing Company (2018) is her first full-length poetry collection, and her chapbook, What the Grimm Girl Looks Forward To is from Finishing Line Press (2016). She edits Sheila-Na-Gig online (https://sheilanagigblog.com/) and Sheila-Na-Gig Editions.
2021-03-2112 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Philip TermanPhilip Terman is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently, Our Portion: New and Selected Poems. A selection of his poems, My Dear Friend Kafka was translated into Arabic and published in Damascus, Syria. His poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, The Sun Magazine, and been included in a mural by James Simon, “The Singing Musicians” at the Squirrel Hill Food Pantry. He’s a professor of English at Clarion University, and the coordinator of The Bridge Literary and Arts Center in Franklin, Pennsylvania. More information can be found at www.philipterman.com.
2021-03-2120 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Donna DzurillaDonna Dzurilla graduated with a BA in Professional Writing (minors in art, philosophy, and English Literature) and received the Excellence in Professional Writing Award from Carlow University. Her sculpture has appeared at the Pittsburgh Glass Center, BoxHeart and Panza galleries, Pittsburgh Technology Council shows, and featured in Urbanic 2: Catalyzing a Regional Economic Renaissance at the Pittsburgh International Airport. She was commissioned to create a public art piece for the 2010 Three Rivers Arts Festival by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. Donna’s monologues are a mainstay in Carlow University Theater’s Practice Monologamy series and have been performed at Yinz Like Plays?!10 Minu...
2021-03-2116 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Amanda HeyesAmanda E. Hayes is an assistant professor of English at Kent State University–Tuscarawas. She is the author of the 2019 College English Association of Ohio's Nancy Dasher Award winning book, The Politics of Appalachian Rhetoric. In exploring the ways that Appalachian people speak and write, Hayes raises the importance of knowing and respecting communication styles within a marginalized culture. Diving deep into the region’s historical roots—especially those of the Scotch-Irish and their influence on her own Appalachian Ohio—Hayes reveals a rhetoric with its own unique logic, utility, and poetry. Throughout, Hayes blends conventional scholarship with autobiography, storytel...
2021-03-2119 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! Reading Series - Thaddeus RutkowskiThaddeus Rutkowski grew up in central Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Cornell University and The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Tricks of Light , Border Crossings, Guess and Check , Violent Outbursts, Haywire, Tetched, and Roughhouse. Guess and Check won a Bronze Award for multicultural fiction from Electronic Literature. Haywire won the Members’ Choice Award, given by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.
2021-03-2115 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE READING SERIES - Bonnie ProudfootBonnie Proudfoot moved to Athens, OH, from Fairmont, WV. She has Creative Writing MA from Hollins and one from WVU. She received a Fellowship for the Arts from the West Virginia Department of Culture and History, and has published poetry and fiction in many journals, including the Gettysburg Review, Kestrel, Quarter After Eight, the Lyric, and Sheila-Na-Gig. Her first novel, Goshen Road, was published by Swallow Press in January of 2020. Buy Bonnie's novel, Goshen Road, here: https://amzn.to/3cgqPcI
2021-03-2109 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA LIVE! READING SERIES - Damian DressickBorn and raised in Pennsylvania’s coal country Damian Dressick is the author of the novel 40 Patchtown (Bottom Dog Press). His creative work has appeared in more than fifty literary journals and anthologies, including W.W. Norton’s New Micro, Post Road, New Orleans Review, Cutbank, failbetter.com, Hippocampus, Smokelong Quarterly, HeartWood, and New World Writing. A Blue Mountain Residency Fellow, Dressick is the winner of the Harriette Arnow Award and the Jesse Stuart Prize. His story collection Fables of Deconstruction is forthcoming from CLASH Books in early 2021. He co-hosts WCONA: LIVE!, a virtual reading series that brings some...
2021-03-2106 minWANA LIVE! Reading SeriesWANA Live Reading Series - Christina FisanickDr. Christina Fisanick is an associate professor of English at California University of Pennsylvania where she teaches expository writing, creative non-fiction, and digital storytelling. Christina is the author of dozens of articles and essays in addition to over thirty books, including her most recent memoir, The Optimistic Food Addict. She lives in Wheeling, West Virginia with her cats and kid.
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