Contact Us
For more information about the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh, please contact us:
Director of Writing Program
Peter Trachtenberg
Office: CL 501-R
tshakti@pitt.edu
Writing Program & Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series Assistant
Andrea Laurion
Office: CL 526
412-624-6508
arl117@pitt.edu
Director of Graduate Studies
Tyler Bickford
Office: CL 526
412-624-2613
bickford@pitt.edu
Graduate Administrator
Jesse Daugherty
Office: CL 526
412-624-6549
engrad@pitt.edu
Advising
Office: CL 501-C
Mark Kemp mkemp@pitt.edu 412-624-6656
Jeff Aziz jeffaziz@pitt.edu 412-624-2228
Lori Campbell camenenglish@verizon.net
FROM THE DIRECTOR
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Graduate Testimonials
Associate Professor and Journalism Program Chair, P.I. Reed School of Journalism, West Virginia University
I spent hours in fiction workshops, soaking up Chuck Kinder’s narrative eruptions and Buddy Nordan’s elegant constructs. I deconstructed three-act structure and plot points with Carl Kurlander. I genuflected before the masters of nonfiction reportage with Bruce Dobler and Patsy Sims. But mainly I wrote.
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