Jason Irwin

Poet

Pittsburgh, PA
Pennsylvania US

Author's Bio

Jason Irwin is the author of three full-length poetry collections, most recently The History of Our Vagrancies (Main Street Rag, 2020). He is also the author of two chapbooks. In 2022 he was a Zoeglossia Fellow and part of the Poetry Foundation’s Disability Poetics Project. His nonfiction has been published in Santa Ana Review, Panorama, The Catholic Worker, and City of Asylum’s Pittsburgh Live/Ability: Encounters in Poetry and Prose Project. He grew up in Dunkirk, NY, and now lives in Pittsburgh PA. http://jasonirwin.blogspot.com/ 

Publications & Prizes

Books:
The History of Our Vagrancies (Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2020)
,
Watering the Dead (Pavement Saw Press, 2008)
,
Some Days It's A Love Story (Slipstream Press, 2005)
Prizes won: 

2006/2007 Transcontinental Poetry Prize for a Frist Book, Pavement Saw Press.

2005 Slipstream Press Chapbook Prize.

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Jamestown
Raised in: 
Dunkirk, NY
New York
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Last update: Jan 11, 2024