Author & Editor

Chris Llewellyn

Chris Llewellyn’s poetry collections include Fragments from the Fire: The Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire of March 25, 1911, and Steam Dummy & Fragments from the Fire: Poems. Her poems have also been published in journals and anthologies, including Sixty Years of American Poetry. Among her other publications are essays on Muriel Rukeyser and on labor poetry studies. She has received the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College. Her new, expanded edition of Fragments from the Fire is a collaborative work with scholar/sweatshop activist Michelle B. Gaffey. Llewellyn’s New and Selected Works (forthcoming, 2016) includes companion pieces for poems by her sister, the late Ohio poet Elizabeth Ann James.

Editor

Michelle B. Gaffey

Michelle B. Gaffey was raised in a working-class community in northwestern Pennsylvania.  A multiple award-winning educator, she currently teaches composition, literature, and critical reading at the college-level.  She has presented widely at local, regional, and national conferences. Her writing has been published in The Collagist, Florida English, and The New People.  She is a co-founder of the Pittsburgh Anti-Sweatshop Community Alliance, an affiliate of SweatFree Communities, and in 2011 she coordinated with the Battle of Homestead Foundation and Duquesne University’s Center for Women’s and Gender Studies to organize a week-long series of events in Pittsburgh, PA to commemorate the centennial of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.  Michelle currently lives with her family in Northern Virginia.