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List Of Italian American Women Writers
The following is a list of Italian-American women writers. A–C *Kim Addonizio * Carol Bonomo Albright *Susanne Antonetta *Penny Arcade *Romina Arena *Dodici Azpadu * Cheryl B *Helen Barolini *Gina Barreca * Dorothy Barresi *Gloria Vitanza Basile * Marion Benasutti *Adria Bernardi * Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum * Mary Jo Bona *Dorothy Bryant *Mary Bucci Bush * Louisa Calio *Mary Cappello *Mary Caponegro * Nancy Carnevale * Mary Beth Caschetta *Grace Cavalieri * Diana Cavallo * Rita Ciresi * Maryann Zillotti Corbett *Paola Corso D–J *Tina DeRosa *Louise DeSalvo * Rachel Guido deVries *Diane DiPrima * Grace DiSanto * Beverly D'Onofrio *Ree Dragonette *Jean Feraca * Sandra Mortola Gilbert * Maria Mazziotti Gillan *Daniela Gioseffi *Edvige Giunta * Mary Gordon *Rose Basile Green * Rose Grieco *Jennifer Guglielmo *Barbara Grizzuti Harrison * Josephine Gattuso Hendin * Joanna Clapps Herman *Ann Hood K–M * Victoria Lancelotta * Annie Lanzillotto * Maria Laurino * Donna Leon * Lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Addonizio
Kim Addonizio (July 31, 1954) is an American poet and novelist. Life Addonizio was born in Washington, D.C., United States. She is the daughter of tennis champion Pauline Betz and sports writer Bob Addie (born Addonizio). She briefly attended Georgetown University and American University before dropping out of both. She later moved to San Francisco and received a B.A. and M.A. from San Francisco State University. She has taught at San Francisco State University and Goddard College. She has a daughter, actress Aya Cash, and currently lives in Oakland, California. Awards * two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships * 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship * 2004 Mississippi Review Fiction Prize * 2000 National Book Award Finalist for ''Tell Me'' * 2000 Pushcart Prize for "Aliens" * 1994 San Francisco Commonwealth Club Poetry Medal Works Poetry * "What Do Women Want", ''poets.org'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa Calio
Louisa Calio (born July 4, 1947 in Gravesend, Brooklyn) is an American poet, writer, multimedia performance artist and teacher. She has directed the Poets and Writers' Piazza for Hofstra University's Italian Experience for the past 10 years.Poets and Writers' Piazza Calio's writings have appeared internationally in anthologies, magazines and journals. She has been honored by Barnard College, Columbia University as a ''Feminist Who Changed America Second Wave 1963–1975.'' She has traveled to East and West Africa, lived in the Caribbean and documented her journeys in photographs and the written word, completing an epic poem "Journey to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane DiPrima
Diane di Prima (August 6, 1934October 25, 2020) was an American poet, known for her association with the Beat movement. She was also an artist, prose writer, and teacher. Her magnum opus is widely considered to be ''Loba'', a collection of poems first published in 1978 then extended in 1998. Early life and education Di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York, on August 6, 1934. She was a second generation American of Italian descent. Her father Francis was a lawyer, and her mother Emma (née Mallozzi) was a teacher. Her maternal grandfather, Domenico Mallozzi, was an activist and associated with anarchists Carlo Tresca and Emma Goldman. Di Prima changed her last name from DiPrima to di Prima because she believed it better reflected her Italian ancestry. She attended academically elite Hunter College High School where she became part of a small group of friends including classmate Audre Lorde who formed a sort of Dead Poets Society calling themselves “the Branded.” They cut cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Guido DeVries
Rachel Guido deVries (born September 9, 1947) is an American poet and novelist. Her 1986 novel, ''Tender Warriors'', depicts the struggles of an Italian-American working-class family and has been praised by critics for featuring complex lesbian characters. She has also published five books of poetry and three children's books. Her poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in many literary journals, including ''Yellow Silk'', the '' Paterson Literary Review'', ''Rattle'', ''Stone Canoe'', and ''Italian Americana''; and in anthologies such as ''Wild Dreams: The Best of Italian Americana'' (edited by Carol Bonomo Albright, 2009), ''The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture'' (edited by Louise DeSalvo, 2002), ''Don't Tell Mama! The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing'' (edited by Gina Barreca, 2002), and ''The Voices We Carry: Recent Italian American Women's Fiction'' (edited by Mary Jo Bona, 1994). In 1987 she received a New York Foundation for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise DeSalvo
Louise A. DeSalvo (September 27, 1942 – October 31, 2018) was an American writer, editor, professor, and lecturer who lived in New Jersey. Much of her work focused on Italian-American culture, though she was also a renowned Virginia Woolf scholar. DeSalvo taught memoir writing as a part of CUNY Hunter College's MFA Program in Creative Writing, published over 17 books, and was a Virginia Woolf scholar. She edited editions of Woolf's first novel ''Melymbrosia'', as well as ''The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf'', which documents the controversial lesbian affair between these two novelists. In addition, she wrote two books on Woolf, ''Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work'' and ''Virginia Woolf's First Voyage: A Novel in the Making''. DeSalvo's publications also include the memoir, ''Vertigo'', which received the Gay Talese award and was also a finalist for Italy's Primo Acerbi prize for literature. ''Vertigo'' holds as one of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tina DeRosa
Tina DeRosa (also De Rosa; 1944–2007) was an American writer best known for her 1980 novel, ''Paper Fish''. She also published poetry, short stories, and creative nonfiction. Biography Early life and education Tina DeRosa was born in Chicago, Illinois, on October 20, 1944, one of two children of Anthony DeRosa, a police officer, and Sophie (née Norkus) DeRosa. She grew up in Chicago's Little Italy neighborhood, and attended Holy Guardian Angel Grammar School and St. Mary's High School. As a child, when she realized she could not be a priest or an altar boy, she decided to become a writer. She credited her father, who was artistic himself, with inspiring her. When she was 17, she and her family were displaced by urban renewal. Over the next four years, she lost her father and her paternal grandmother, an Italian immigrant. She channeled her feelings of grief and loss into her writing. DeRosa earned a bachelor's degree from Mundelein College in 1966, and a master's degr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paola Corso
Paola Corso (May 28, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American fiction writer, poet, photographer and literary activist. Corso is a New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellow,New York Foundation for the Arts, Artists' Fellowship - PoetryPaola Corso, 2003. Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award Winner,, and included on the Pennsylvania Center for the Book's Literary Map. She is the author of eight books of fiction and poetry, including 'Vertical Bridges: Poems and Photographs of City Steps,' (2020) with original photos by the author and archival photographs from the University of Pittsburgh Library; ''Catina's Haircut: A Novel in Stories'' (2010) on Library Journal’s notable list of first novels; Library Journal'First Novels: Fall Firsts 2010. ''Giovanna's 86 Circles And Other Stories'' (2005), a Binghamton University's John Gardner Fiction Book Award Finalist; [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryann Corbett
Maryann Corbett (née Zillotti, Washington, D.C.) is an American poet, medievalist, and linguist. She grew up in northern Virginia. She did her undergraduate work at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and graduated with a doctorate in English from the University of Minnesota. Her work has appeared in '' Southwest Review, Barrow Street, Rattle, River Styx, Atlanta Review, The Evansville Review, Measure, Literary Imagination, The Dark Horse, Italian Americana, Mezzo Cammin, Linebreak, Subtropics, Verse Daily, American Life in Poetry, The Poetry Foundation, The Writer's Almanac'', and many other venues in print and online, as well as an assortment of anthologies, including '' The Best American Poetry 2018''. She has been a several-time Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee; a finalist for the 2009 Morton Marr Prize, the 2010 Best of the Net anthology, and the 2011 and 2016 Able Muse Book Prize; and a winner of the Lyric Memorial Award, the Willis B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Ciresi
Rita Ciresi (born in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American short story writer, and novelist of Itialian descent. Life She graduated from Pennsylvania State University with an M.F.A. She teaches at the University of South Florida. Her work appeared in ''Oregon Review'', ''Prairie Schooner'', ''South Carolina Review''. Awards * 2002 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction is an annual prize awarded by the University of Georgia Press named in honor of the American short story writer and novelist Flannery O'Connor. Established in 1983 to encourage young writers by bringi ..., for ''Mother Rocket'' * 1993 Los Angeles Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction * 2004 American Academy in Rome visiting writer * 2005 Hawthornden International Writers’ Retreat fellowship in Lasswade, Scotland Works Bring Back My Body to Me , year=2012, * (paperback by Delacorte Press in 1997) * (Delta Trade paperbacks in 2000) * * * Anth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Cavallo
Diana Cavallo (1931-2017) was an American novelist, educator, playwright, and performer. Biography Early life and education Cavallo was born in Philadelphia in 1931, the daughter of Genuino and Josephine (Petraca) Cavallo. She grew up in an Italian neighborhood of South Philadelphia, where she attended public schools. Her grandparents, who lived with the family, spoke the Abruzzese dialect; Cavallo learned Italian from them, and later based two characters in her first novel on them. As a teenager, she moved with her family to Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. She attended the University of Pennsylvania and spent time in Florence, Italy, as a Fulbright scholar. She was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Career After graduation, Cavallo worked for a year at the Philadelphia State Hospital as a psychiatric social worker; this experience provided the background for her first novel, ''A Bridge of Leaves'' (1961). Written in New Hampshire on a MacDowell Colony fellowship, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Cavalieri
Grace Cavalieri is an American poet, playwright, and radio host of the Library of Congress program '' The Poet and the Poem''. In 2019, she was appointed the tenth Poet Laureate of Maryland. Education * BS - Education: English and History, The College of New Jersey, Trenton, 1954 * MA - Creative Writing & Education: Goddard University, Plainfield, VT, 1975 * Post-Graduate Studies, Graduate School of English, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 1975–1976 * Graduate Studies in Education, Graduate School of Education, Rollins University, Orlando, FL, 1962–1963 Literary career In 1979 she founded The Bunny and the Crocodile Press/Forest Woods Media Productions, Inc., a publishing house and media production company. Anna Nicole: Poems By Grace Cavalieri written by Grace Cavalieri was first published on March 7, 2008. LIFE UPON THE WICKED STAGE: A Memoir written by Grace Cavalieri was first published on May 1, 2015. In 2019, she was appointed the tenth Poet Laureate of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MB Caschetta
Mary Beth Caschetta (born August 30, 1966) is an American writer and blogger best known for her blog Literary Rejections On Display. Career Literary Rejections On Display Caschetta began the blog Literary Rejections On Display anonymously in 2007 identifying herself only as Writer, Rejected. The blog was initially composed solely of Caschetta's rejections from literary journals with all personal information crossed out. As the blog gained in popularity she began to post anonymous submissions from readers that had been sent to her. Caschetta also used the blog to anonymously chronicle her own journey with her novel, and her efforts to obtain an agent and publish the work. Caschetta put the blog on hiatus in 2012 before returning in 2014 with the news that she had sold her novel. On November 7, 2014 she wrote a blog post in which she revealed herself as MB Caschetta, and the novel she had been trying to publish as '' Miracle Girls''. Fiction In 1996, Caschetta published a collect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
