Word Circus, a reading by Chatham's MFA students.

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Featured readers:

Arista Rawat Engineer is a poet who explores questions that arise from the confluence of different worlds — modernity and tradition, language and culture, myth and literature, and more. Her work has appeared in the Airplane Poetry Movement anthology, A Letter, A Poem, A Home. A second-year at Chatham's MFA program, she is from Pune, India and loves being in Pittsburgh because she's always lived in places that begin with a "P"!

Hedy Gerace is a fiction and creative non-fiction writer. Her topics of interest keep changing, but she's currently focsed on writing about themes of nature, sexuality, and family dynamics. She graduated from Lycoming College in Williamsport, PA, with a BA in Creative Writing and Sociology, and is now working toward her MFA at Chatham University as a Whiford Fellow.

Derek Maiolo is a creative nonfiction student in Chatham's MFA program. Before Pittsburgh, he worked as a journalist in Colorado, where he covered the ski industry, crime, and curious blends of the two. When he isn't writing, Derek is usually on an adventure collecting stories to write about later.