Track Changes: Kirwyn Sutherland & Steffan Triplett

Track Changes is a monthly series where writers chat about their favorite records. Each event features one Philly-based writer and one out-of-town writer. Join us for a night of music, readings, and conversation at our new home — Solar Myth!

Steffan Triplett (Pittsburgh)
Steffan Triplett is a Black, queer writer born and raised in southwest Missouri. He is the author of the hybrid memoir Bad Forecast (Essay Press) and the essay chapbook Constraints (New Michigan Press). His recent essays, poems, and criticism appear in Vulture, Obsidian, Foglifter, Poetry Daily, and It Came From the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror (Feminist Press). He is the Managing Director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics at the University of Pittsburgh where he is a Teaching Associate Professor. Triplett has received fellowships and support from Cave Canem, Outpost, Lambda Literary, Callaloo, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Blue Mountain Center, and Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh.
Kirwyn Sutherland (Philly)

Kirwyn Sutherland is a Ciinical Research Professional and poet who makes poems centering the black experience in America. He was one of 5 poets to represent the Philadelphia Pigeon Poetry Slam Team at the National Poetry Slam in Oakland California in 2015. Kirwyn’s work has been published in American Poetry Review, Cosmonauts Ave., Blueshift Journal, Voicemail Poems, APIARY Magazine, FOLDER, The Wanderer and elsewhere. Kirwyn has served as Editor of Lists/Book Reviewer for WusGood magazine,poetry editor for APIARY Magazine and is a Watering Hole fellow. Kirwyn has a chapbook, Jump Ship, on Thread Makes Blanket Press.

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