St Albans Writes

The Advisory Board, for the St. Albans Branch Library, is proud to present St. Albans Writes...a monthly speaker series featuring local authors.  Cat Pleska is an award-winning author and educator. She has two memoirs, My Life in Water, (Uncollected Press, ’24) and, Riding on Comets, WVUP ’15). Pleska published essays and memoirs in Still: the Journal, Change Seven Magazine, Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel and other literary magazines. She has work in anthologies Journal of Appalachian Writers, and Women Speak. She was nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice. She teaches creative writing at Marshall University where she won the Council of Chairs Award for Excellence in teaching. At times, she’s been a book reviewer, radio essayist, and oral historian. She is the president and editor-in-chief of Mountain State Press. She lives in Scott Depot with her husband and five cats.