Karen Dietrich is an adjunct English instructor at The University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg and Westmoreland County Community College. Her poems and essays have appeared in Pittsburgh City Paper, Nerve, The Bellingham Review, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PANK Magazine, and elsewhere.

Books by Karen Dietrich

The Girl Factory

by Karen Dietrich - Autobiography, Biography

Eight-year-old Karen’s parents are lifelong workers at the Anchor Glass plant, where one Saturday, an employee goes on a shooting spree, killing four supervisors, then himself. This beautifully evocative memoir chronicles the next fourteen years as Karen seeks comfort in obsessive rituals and superstition.