Adam Atkinson is a writer, a comedian, and the Executive Director of Open Thread, a local arts service organization. Born and raised in Western Pennsylvania, Adam channels his fondness for Pittsburgh into two things: the Steelers, and raising the profile of young artists and writers in the tri-state area through Open Thread's events and publications. In his free time, Adam is actually employed as a creative writing and literary theory instructor at a high school for the arts in Beaver County. When Adam grows up, he wants to be a poet, a professor, a comedy writer, a comedy actor, or the director of an arts organization in Bizarro Pennsylvania, where state funding for the arts flows like the Mighty Allegheny. www.openthread.org