Emerging Black Writers-in-Residence Program

在整个实习期间, each writer-in-residence will teach a semester-long multi-genre workshop to Chatham MFACW students. They will also deliver a public craft lecture, a public reading of their work, 和 enter into professional mentorship relationships with Chatham faculty. 

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Current Writer-In-Residence

卡梅伦巴内特

卡梅伦巴内特 is a poet 和 teacher in Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania. A quasi-native of the city, he graduated from Taylor Allderdice HighSchool 和 went on to receive his BA in English from Duquesne University in 2011, where he was the recipient of the O'Donnell Award for Excellence in 诗歌. He holds both an MFA 和 an MAT from the University of Pittsburgh, where he was poetry editor for 热金属桥文学 杂志，联合协调人 Pitt’s Speakeasy Reading Series, 和 winner of the 2014 University of Pittsburgh/Academy of American Poets 研究生 诗歌 Award. He currently serves as an editor for 匹兹堡诗歌杂志 作为董事会成员 写匹兹堡. Cameron’s poetry explores the complexity of race 和 the body for a black man in today’s America. He is the recipient of a 2019 Investing in Professional Artists Grant Program, a partnership of The Pittsburgh Foundation 和 The Heinz Endowments; he is also the 2019 Emerging Artist Awardee for the Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement 奖, co-sponsored by The Pittsburgh Foundation 和 The Heinz Endowments. 他是 The Drowning Boy's Guide to Water, winner of the Autumn House Press 2017 Rising Writer Contest, 和 finalist for the 49th NAACP Image 奖 for Outst和ing Literary Work in 诗歌. He is an avid fan of the Steelers, 企鹅, 和海盗, 喜欢阅读, 写作, 运行, playing card games 和 board games, 户外活动, 和 keeping up with current events. Cameron teaches middle school English language arts 和 social studies at his alma mater, 福尔克实验学校. His second collection of poems, 杂音, will be published by Autumn House Press in spring 2024. 

过去Writers-In-Residence

The inaugural writers in residence are both MFACW alumni: Caitlyn猎人 taught in the spring 2021 semester, while 塞德里克鲁道夫 taught in the fall 2021 semester. Both writers-in-residence were involved with the 2021 Summer 社区 of Writers residency. 

Caitlyn猎人 is an MFA alumna in Creative Nonfiction from 波胆网站. She has been an assistant editorial intern at Creative Nonfiction 杂志, a Hot Metal Bridge post-baccalaureate fellow at the University of Pittsburgh English Department, a professor of English at the 社区 College of Allegheny County for the past six years 和 is currently working on her doctorate of English at Duquesne University. She is currently a contributor to the 匹兹堡当前 和 gives public lectures on Black identity, Black cultural representation, 和 critical race theory both in Pittsburgh 和 internationally.

塞德里克鲁道夫 first moved to Pittsburgh in 2016 under a fellowship from 波胆网站. For two years, he taught at Allegheny County Jail 和 the now-defunct SCI Pittsburgh. In 2018, he graduated from Chatham with an MFA in 诗歌 和 in Pedagogy. He is currently in his third year of teaching fiction 和 poetry to middle 和 high school writers at the Pittsburgh Creative 和 Performing Arts school (CAPA). In addition, he is one of the founding editors for 美丽的尸体, which publishes social justice-themed anthologies 和 stages theatrical performances. 美丽的尸体 will be able to exp和 its local efforts thanks to a grant from the Three Rivers 社区 Foundation. In fulfillment of the grant, Cedric will teach 写作 to youth in 2020 和 2021. His poems are published in Christianity 和 Literature Journal, 劳雷尔评论，和 圣达菲文学评论. He has publications forthcoming in the 煤山评论 和 The Pittsburgh Neighborhood Guidebook.
 Photo credit: Samantha Edwards