In 1896, Cather was hired to write for a women's magazine, "Home Monthly", moving in the process to Pittsburgh. There, she wrote journalistic pieces, short stories, and poetry. A year later, after the magazine was sold, she became a telegraph editor and critic for the "Pittsburgh Leader" and frequently contributed poetry and short fiction to "The Library", another local publication. In Pittsburgh, she taught Latin, algebra, and English composition at Central High School for one year; she then taught English and Latin at Allegheny High School, where she came to head the English department.