Anna Monardo (born 1956) is an American

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of the

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experience. Originally from Pittsburgh, she graduated from Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana and received her M.F.A. from

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in 1983. She is a professor of the Writer's Workshop at the

University of Nebraska at Omaha The University of Nebraska Omaha (Omaha or UNO) is a public research university in Omaha, Nebraska. Founded in 1908 by faculty from the Omaha Presbyterian Theological Seminary as a private non-sectarian college, the university was originally kno ...

Books

* ''The Courtyard of Dreams'' (Doubleday, 1993) * ''Falling In Love with Natassia'' (Doubleday, 2006)

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External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20110707144158/http://www.annamonardo.com/index2.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Monardo, Anna 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American women writers American women novelists American writers of Italian descent Columbia University School of the Arts alumni Eastern Washington University faculty Hunter College faculty Living people Marymount Manhattan College faculty New York University faculty Saint Mary's College (Indiana) alumni University of Nebraska Omaha faculty 1956 births Novelists from Washington (state) Novelists from New York (state) Novelists from Vermont American women academics