Her previous writing appeared in Best American Essays 2016. Standefer was a Logan Nonfiction Fellow at the Carey Institute for Global Good and earned her MFA at the University of Arizona. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, and featured on NPR’s Fresh Air. It was also selected as a New York Times Book Review Staff Pick, shortlisted for the J. Katherine Standefer’s debut book Lightning Flowers was a Finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction and the Arizona/New Mexico Book Award in Memoir. Today, Pitkin lives and writes in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she works as an organizer with Workers United, an offshoot of the union UNITE. She grew up in rural Ohio and holds an MFA from the University of Arizona. Her essays have been awarded the Montana Prize, the Disquiet Literary Prize, the New Millennium Award, and the Monique Wittig Writer’s Fellowship. Daisy Pitkin has spent more than twenty years as a community and union organizer, working first in support of garment workers around the world, and then for US labor unions organizing industrial laundry workers.
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