ABOUT ARLENE WEINER

Arlene Weiner grew up in New York City. She lives in Pittsburgh, where she is active in Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange, the Squirrel Hill Poetry Workshop, and the Porch Poets. She has been a Shakespeare scholar, a cardiology technician, a den mother, a member of a group developing educational software, and an editor. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including the Paterson Literary Review, Pleiades, Poet Lore, and U.S. 1 Worksheets, and have been heard on The Writer’s Almanac. Stay is the fourth collection of her poetry published by Ragged Sky Press, following Escape Velocity (2006), City Bird (2016), and More (2022). Arlene was awarded a fellowship to MacDowell. She also writes plays. Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Co. produced her play Findings, and Carlow University Theatre performed her monologue Clothesline.