Lori Jakiela
Lori Jakiela is an American author of memoirs and poetry.Education and career
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 newspaper reporter. She is married to novelist Dave Newman.Selected works
Memoir
