Poets Elizabeth Hoover, Adriana Ramírez, and Ellen McGrath Smith join Riverstone for an evening celebrating their work

Elizabeth Hoover is the author of the archive is all in present tense, winner of the 2021 Barrow Street Book Prize. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in the North American Review, the Kenyon Review, and StoryQuarterly. She teaches in the English Department at Webster University in St. Louis.

Adriana E. Ramírez is a Mexican-Colombian writer, critic, columnist, and performance poet based in Pittsburgh. She won the inaugural PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize in 2015 for her novella-length work of nonfiction, Dead Boys (Little A, 2016). From 2016-2020 she served as Critic-at-Large for the Los Angeles Times Book Section. She is the recipient of the Pittsburgh Foundation’s 2019 Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Award. Her work has also appeared in The Atlantic, the Boston Globe, ESPN’s The Undefeated (now Andscape), the Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, PENAmerica, and Literary Hub. A Ramírez is a columnist, InReview editor, and member of the editorial board of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Ellen McGrath Smith teaches at the University of Pittsburgh and in the Carlow University Madwomen in the Attic program. Her poetry has appeared in The Georgia Review, The New York Times, The American Poetry Review, Talking Writing, Los Angeles Review, and other journals; and in anthologies, including Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability (Cinco Puntos, 2011) and Choice Words: Writers on Abortion (Haymarket, 2022). Her books include Scatter, Feed (Seven Kitchens 2014) and Nobody's Jackknife (West End Press 2015); her chapbook Lie Low, Goaded Lamb was published in January 2023 by Seven Kitchens Press as part of its Keystone Series.