Lori Jakiela

Jakiela was raised in Trafford, Pennsylvania and attended Gannon University. She is a professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, and has also taught at Chatham University and served as co-director of the Chautauqua Institution's Summer Writers Festival. ==Recognition==

Jakiela won Stanford University's William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for non-fiction for her third memoir, Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth Maybe, in 2016. She was awarded a City of Asylum residency in Belgium in 2015. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. ==Personal life==

Jakiela has worked as a flight attendant and as a freelance journalist, including The New York Times. the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Washington Post. She is married to novelist Dave Newman. ==Selected works==

Memoir • They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love and Living Even So (Atticus Books, 2023) • Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe (Atticus Books, 2015; Autumn House Press, 2019) • The Bridge to Take When Things Get Serious (C&R Press, 2013) • Miss New York Has Everything (Hatchette 2006) Essays • Portrait of the Artist as a Bingo Worker: Essays on Work and the Writing Life (Bottom Dog Press, 2017) • Ed. by M.J. Fievre. All that Glitters: A Sliver of Stone Anthology (Lominy Books, 2013) • Ed by Sheryl St. Germain and Margaret Whitford. Between Song and Story: Essays for the 21st Century (Autumn Press House, 2011) • Ed. by Elizabeth Penfield. Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition (Pearson) • Ed. by Lee Gutkind. Keep It Real: Everything You Need to Know about Researching and Writing Creative Nonfiction (W.W. Norton, 2008) • Ed. by Dinty Moore. The Truth of the Matter: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction (Pearson, 2006) Poetry • How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen? Poems at Mid-Life (Brickhouse Books, 2021) • Spot the Terrorist (Turning Point 2012) • The Regulars (Liquid Paper Press, 2001) • Red Eye (Pudding House, 2010) • ''The Mill Hunk's Daughter Meets the Queen of Sky'' (Finishing Line, 2011) • Big Fish (Stranded Oak Press, 2016) ==References==