Annie Lanzillotto (born June 1, 1963) is an American author, poet, songwriter, director, actor, podcaster, and

performance art Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a pu ...

ist. Her book, '' L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir'' was published by

State University of New York Press The State University of New York (SUNY, , ) is a system of public colleges and universities in the State of New York. It is one of the largest comprehensive system of universities, colleges, and community colleges in the United States. Led by c ...

. 2013. Her book of poetry, ''Schistsong'' was published by Bordighera Press. 2013. Her double flip book of poetry and prose, ''Hard Candy: Caregiving, Mourning, and Stage Light'' and ''Pitch Roll Yaw'' was published by

Guernica Editions Guernica Editions is a Canadian independent publisher established in Montreal, Quebec, in 1978, by Antonio D'Alfonso. Guernica specializes in Canadian literature Canadian literature is the literature of a multicultural country, written in ...

2018. Her podcast ''Annie's Story Cave'' commenced while sheltering in place alone in 2020. She is the Artistic Director of ''Street Cry Inc''. Lanzillotto is a member of

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Dramatists Guild of America The Dramatists Guild of America is a professional organization for playwrights, composers, and lyricists working in the U.S. theatre market. Membership as an Associate Member is open to any person having written at least one stage play. Active Mem ...

PEN America PEN America (formerly PEN American Center), founded in 1922 and headquartered in New York City, is a nonprofit organization that works to defend and celebrate free expression in the United States and worldwide through the advancement of litera ...

, Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, ''Malìa'': a

Collective A collective is a group of entities that share or are motivated by at least one common issue or interest, or work together to achieve a common objective. Collectives can differ from cooperatives in that they are not necessarily focused upon an ...

of Italian American Women,Malìa: a Collective of Italian American Women
/ref> The Italian American Writers Association (IAWA),Italian American Writers Association
/ref> a blogger for i-Italy.com,i-Italy.com blogger
and has been a Writer-in-Residence at

Hedgebrook Hedgebrook is a rural retreat for women writers on Whidbey Island, Washington, founded in 1988. Hedgebrook's artist-in-residence program accepts up to 80 writers each year, who spend two to four weeks in residence working on their diverse writi ...

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and

New Jersey City University New Jersey City University (NJCU) is a public university in Jersey City, New Jersey. Originally chartered in 1927, and known as Jersey City State College for 40 years of its history, New Jersey City University consists of the School of Business, ...

. Lanzillotto has shared her history for the

Sophia Smith Collection The Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College is an internationally recognized repository of manuscripts, photographs, periodicals and other primary sources in women's history. General One of the largest recognized repositories of manuscripts, ar ...

Smith College Smith College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts Women's colleges in the United States, women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts. It was chartered in 1871 by Sophia Smith (Smith College ...

's ''Documenting Lesbian Lives Oral History Project.''Interviewed by Caitlin DuBois
''Annie Rachele Lanzillotto''
Documenting Lesbian Lives Oral History Project, Sophia Smith College, Smith College. Northampton, MA, April 3, 2011. She has taught Solo-Theater at The Actor's Theatre of Louisville.

Early years

Annie Lanzillotto was born in the

Bronx The Bronx () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New Y ...

, New York. She is the fourth of four children. She is a third generation Italian American whose grandparents came from the

Bari Bari ( , ; nap, label= Barese, Bare ; lat, Barium) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, southern Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy a ...

province of Italy;

Acquaviva delle Fonti Acquaviva delle Fonti ( nap, label= Barese, Iacquavìve ; known as just Acquaviva until 1863) is an town and of 20,446 inhabitants, in the Metropolitan City of Bari, in Apulia, Italy. Acquaviva is famous for its characteristic red onions, which ha ...

Cassano delle Murge Cassano delle Murge ( Barese: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Bari, Apulia, southern Italy. Origins of the name It probably derives from the Latin name Cassius with the addition of the suffix ''-anus''. According to oth ...

, and

Bitetto Bitetto ( Barese: ; la, Vitetum, or ) is a town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Bari, Apulia, Italy. Main Sights The main attraction of Bitetto is the cathedral, dedicated to Saint Michael, one of the main examples of Apulian Romane ...

. Her father, Joseph Rocco Lanzillotto was an iceman, boiler repairman, and

U.S. Marine The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through combi ...

who fought in

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in the

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. Her mother, Rachel Claire Petruzzelli Lanzillotto was a hairdresser and manicurist. Her father suffered from PTSD. After her parents' vicious divorce when she was twelve, Lanzillotto's mother raised her alone on welfare. Lanzillotto and her mother moved to

Yonkers Yonkers () is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States. Developed along the Hudson River, it is the third most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City and Buffalo. The population of Yonkers was 211,569 as enu ...

, New York, where Sister Raymond Aloysis trained and coached her into becoming an

oratorical Public speaking, also called oratory or oration, has traditionally meant the act of speaking face to face to a live audience. Today it includes any form of speaking (formally and informally) to an audience, including pre-recorded speech deliver ...

champion.National Catholic Forensic League'
Competition Events
She won the

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's New York State Championship in 1977. Lanzillotto attended Roosevelt High School in

where she began to create

during her pledges to

sorority Fraternities and sororities are social organizations at colleges and universities in North America. Generally, membership in a fraternity or sorority is obtained as an undergraduate student, but continues thereafter for life. Some accept gradua ...

Sigma Phi Nu. She can be heard on iTunesAnnie Lanzillotto.
/ref> talking about her early years, through

StoryCorps StoryCorps is an American non-profit organization whose mission is to record, preserve, and share the stories of Americans from all backgrounds and beliefs. StoryCorps grew out of Sound Portraits Productions as a project founded in 2003 by radio ...

. Lanzillotto was influenced by punk rock and

Joan Jett Joan Jett (born Joan Marie Larkin, September 22, 1958) is an American singer, guitarist, record producer, and actress. Jett is best known for her work as the frontwoman of her band Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, and for earlier founding and per ...

. She graduated from

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

with a Bachelor of Arts with honors in

Medical Anthropology Medical anthropology studies "human health and disease, health care systems, and biocultural adaptation". It views humans from multidimensional and ecological perspectives. It is one of the most highly developed areas of anthropology and applied ...

. As a freshman at

in 1981, she was diagnosed with

Hodgkin's Disease Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is a type of lymphoma, in which cancer originates from a specific type of white blood cell called lymphocytes, where multinucleated Reed–Sternberg cells (RS cells) are present in the patient's lymph nodes. The condition wa ...

and in 1982, created the Group Independent Study Project,Group Independent Study Project, Brown University.
/ref> "Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Cancer But Were Afraid To Ask." This project was funded with "Odyssey Grants" in education for three years. Lanzillotto developed the curriculum with Dr. Stephanie LaFargeStephanie LaFarge is Senior Director of Counseling Services at the

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The Smartest People.
/ref>Stephanie LaFarge, of Project Nim. and Dr. James Crowley of

Rhode Island Hospital Rhode Island Hospital is a private, not-for-profit hospital located in the Upper South Providence neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island. It is the largest academic medical center in the region, affiliated with Brown University since 1959. As a ...

. She studied at The

American University in Cairo The American University in Cairo (AUC; ar, الجامعة الأمريكية بالقاهرة, Al-Jāmi‘a al-’Amrīkiyya bi-l-Qāhira) is a private research university in Cairo, Egypt. The university offers American-style learning programs ...

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...

, where she cross-dressed in order to complete her

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unfettered. In 1986, Lanzillotto received the Eva A. Mooar Award for the graduating

female senior who had the most impact on the community.Annie Lanzillotto receive
Eva A. Mooar Award
. During her university years, Lanzillotto took flying lessons and earned a private pilot's licence. Lanzillotto studied writing in New York City with her mentor Denya Cascio. She continued her studies at

Sarah Lawrence College Sarah Lawrence College is a Private university, private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York. The college models its approach to education after the Supervision system, Oxford/Cambridge system of one-on-one student-faculty tutorials. Sara ...

where Lanzillotto studied fiction writing with Joseph Papaleo, poetry with

Joan Larkin Joan Larkin (born April 16, 1939 in Boston) is an American poet and playwright. She was active in the small press lesbian feminist publishing explosion in the 1970s, co-founding the independent publishing company Out & Out Books. She is now ...

and theater with Shirley Kaplan. Lanzillotto taught at

Sing Sing Sing Sing Correctional Facility, formerly Ossining Correctional Facility, is a maximum-security prison operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision in the village of Ossining, New York. It is about north of ...

Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women a women's prison in the town of Bedford, New York, is the largest women's prison in New York state. The prison previously opened under the name Westfield State Farm in 1901. It lies just outside t ...

, and Bayview Correctional Facilities through Mercy College Extension Programs, and in

Harlem Harlem is a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It is bounded roughly by the Hudson River on the west; the Harlem River and 155th Street (Manhattan), 155th Street on the north; Fifth Avenue on the east; and 110th Street (Manhattan), ...

and

Brooklyn Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...

through The

New York City Ballet New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company. Léon Barzin was the company' ...

Education Department. She graduated with a

Master's of Fine Arts A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A.) is a terminal degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts and in some cases, theatre management or arts admini ...

in Fiction Writing from

in 1990 and delivered the commencement speech, taking on the character of

Sarah Lawrence Sarah (born Sarai) is a biblical matriarch and prophetess, a major figure in Abrahamic religions. While different Abrahamic faiths portray her differently, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all depict her character similarly, as that of a piou ...

herself.

Career

Lanzillotto moved to New York City in 1987. Early influences were downtown performance artists Mark Ameen and

Penny Arcade ''Penny Arcade'' is a webcomic focused on video games and video game culture, written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik. The comic debuted in 1998 on the website ''loonygames.com''. Since then, Holkins and Krahulik have establish ...

. Lanzillotto was a member of

AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) is an international, grassroots political group working to end the AIDS pandemic. The group works to improve the lives of people with AIDS through direct action, medical research, treatment and advocacy, ...

(ACT-UP). In 1993, she developed a literacy program at

Housing Works Housing Works is a New York City-based non-profit fighting AIDS and homelessness. The charity is well known for its entrepreneurial businesses including a chain of thrift shops, which supports efforts to end AIDS and homelessness where they ar ...

, where she met theater director Victoria MacElwayne who directed Lanzillotto's first solo show, ''Confessions of a Bronx Tomboy: My Throwing Arm (This Useless Expertise)'' which debuted at Manhattan Class Company

MCC Theater MCC Theater (Manhattan Class Company) is an off-Broadway theater company located in New York City, founded in 1986 by artistic directors Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey and William Cantler. Blake West joined the company in 2006 as executive direc ...

's Performance Mix and Under One Roof Theater with live sound action by Eliza Ladd. Lanzillotto's practice "Action Writing," brought writing into the public sphere as performance on oversized scrolls of paper on which she would write to live music and perform improvised recitations of the text. She performed poetry and one-woman shows at: Pyramid Club,

Dixon Place Dixon Place is a theater organization in New York City dedicated to the development of works-in-progress from a broad range of performers and artists. It exists to serve the creative needs of artists—emerging, mid-career and established—who a ...

The Kitchen The Kitchen is a non-profit, multi-disciplinary avant-garde performance and experimental art institution located at 512 West 19th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was founde ...

Performance Space 122 Performance Space New York, formerly known as Performance Space 122 or P.S. 122, is a non-profitable arts organization founded in 1980 in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan in an abandoned public school building. Origin The former eleme ...

Avant-Garde-Arama,

The Knitting Factory The Knitting Factory is a nightclub in New York City that features eclectic music and entertainment. After opening in 1987, various other locations were opened in the United States. The Knitting Factory gave its audience poetry readings, perform ...

Smalls Jazz Club Smalls Jazz Club is a jazz club at 183 West 10th Street, Greenwich Village, New York City. Established in 1994, it earned a reputation in the 1990s as a "hotbed for New York's jazz talent" with a "well-deserved reputation as one of the best places ...

, Revolution Books, The

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 89th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It is the permanent home of a continuously exp ...

, Worker's United 99th and 100th Triangle Fire Memorial, Remember the Triangle Factory Fire Coalition's 99th memorial at

Judson Memorial Church The Judson Memorial Church is located on Washington Square South between Thompson Street and Sullivan Street, near Gould Plaza, opposite Washington Square Park, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It ...

. Lanzillotto's vision of 146

Shirtwaist From the early 19th century through the Edwardian period, the word ''waist'' was a term common in the United States for the bodice of a dress or for a blouse or woman's shirt. A shirtwaist was originally a separate blouse constructed like a shirt; ...

-Kites became a

community art Community art, also known as social art, community-engaged art, community-based art, and, rarely, dialogical art, is the practice of art based in and generated in a community setting. It is closely related to social practice (art), social practice ...

project memorializing the victims of the

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on Saturday, March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history. The ...

.Annie Lanzillotto
''Triangle Shirtwaist Factory: and The Work of Remembering''
March 22, 2008.Steven Greenhouse
"In a Tragedy, a Mission to Remember"
''The New York Times'', March 19, 2011. From November 1995 until November 1997, Annie Lanzillotto created a site-specific community-based performance-art project, "a'Schapett!" at The

Arthur Avenue Arthur Avenue is a street in the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City, which serves as the center of the Bronx's "Little Italy". Although the historical and commercial center of Little Italy is Arthur Avenue itself, the area stretch ...

Retail Market Project, in a once thriving Italian neighborhood in the Bronx.Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
''Playing to the Senses: Food as a Performance Medium.''
Performance Research 4, 1 (1999): 1–30. This was a site-specific community-based performance project where Lanzillotto brought artists into the market during business hours. She directed live scenarios both scripted and

improvised Improvisation is the activity of making or doing something not planned beforehand, using whatever can be found. Improvisation in the performing arts is a very spontaneous performance without specific or scripted preparation. The skills of impr ...

, with local senior citizens, merchants and a variety of visiting opera singers,

trapeze A trapeze is a short horizontal bar hung by ropes or metal straps from a ceiling support. It is an aerial apparatus commonly found in circus performances. Trapeze acts may be static, spinning (rigged from a single point), swinging or flying, an ...

artists, musicians, dancers, and performance artists. The project came out of Annie's obsession of the vocality of pushcart peddlers. The project was commissioned by ''Dancing in the Streets'', funded by

Rockefeller Foundation The Rockefeller Foundation is an American private foundation and philanthropic medical research and arts funding organization based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The second-oldest major philanthropic institution in America, after the Carneg ...

Multi Arts Production Grant. Lanzillotto has since written about this work in

New Village Press New Village Press is a not-for-profit book publisher founded in 2005 in the San Francisco Bay Area now based in New York, New York. It began as a national publishing project of Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR), an ...

's ''Works of HeART''.Annie Lanzillotto, '' 'a'Schapetti!' '' Final report rthur Avenue Retail Market Project 1997. was created to bridge the downtown avant-garde performance scene of New York City with the working class labor of butchers and

bakers A baker is a tradesperson who bakes and sometimes sells breads and other products made of flour by using an oven or other concentrated heat source. The place where a baker works is called a bakery. History Ancient history Since grains ha ...

.David Gonzalez
/ref> Her community-based performance work at

is featured in Molly O'Neill's film ''New York: A Taste of the City.'' Seminal to her political development was the Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership ProgramElizabeth Canner, Kathie deNobriga, Timothea Howard, Annie Lanzillotto, Pam McMichael & Cara Pag
Art, Creative, Practice, Action, and Leadership: A Next Generation Leadership Alumni Network Cooperative Inquiry
/ref> in which she was a fellow in 2000. In 2008, she wrote and performed in ''The Flat Earth: "WheredaFFFhuck Did New York Go?"''Ruth McCann
"The Flat Earth Glows: Masochistically marrying New York"
''The Village Voice''. Wednesday, July 2, 2008.Martin Denton
The Flat Earth: WheredaFFFhuck Did New York Go?
nytheatre.com review, June 19, 2008.Dan Bacalzo
The Flat Earth: WheredaFFFhuck Did New York Go?
Theater Mania, June 24, 2008.Stefano's Network
The Flat Earth: WheredaFFFhuck Did New York Go?
June 20, 2008 Friday. Lanzillotto performed songs and stories at the first

Gay Pride LGBT pride (also known as gay pride or simply pride) is the promotion of the self-affirmation, dignity, equality, and increased visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people as a social group. Pride, as opposed to sham ...

event at

Hoboken Hoboken ( ; Unami: ') is a city in Hudson County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the city's population was 60,417. The Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program calculated that the city's population was 58,69 ...

Public Library.Lana Rose Diaz
"Out and About"
''The Hudson Reporter'', July 1, 2011. In 2013, her site-specific "Blue Mailbox Book Crawl" took the audience on a processional walk around the East Village where Lanzillotto sat atop blue corner mailboxes and told stories from her book '' L is for Lion''. This work was supported by

Franklin Furnace Franklin Furnace, also known as the Franklin Mine, is a famous mineral location for rare zinc, iron, manganese minerals in old mines in Franklin, New Jersey, United States. This locale produced more species of minerals (over 300) and more differ ...

and

City Lore City Lore: the New York Center for Urban Culture was founded in 1986 and was the first organization in the United States devoted expressly to the "documentation, preservation, and presentation of urban folk culture." Their mission is to produce pr ...

. Later that year Lanzillotto played Grandma Nunzio in ''

Tony n' Tina's Wedding ''Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding'' is an "environmental/immersive theatre" event based on a traditional Italian-American wedding and reception, with warm and intrusive stereotypes exaggerated for comic effect. Audience members are treated as guests at ...

'' in Times Square, directed by Tony Lauria, and produced by Joe Corcoran. Lanzillotto's approach of performance was described as "She's not acting. She's living.","A Role That Blurs the Lines Between Drama and Reality"
David Gonzalez ''The New York Times,'' May 25, 2014.

Personal life

Lanzillotto is a lesbian who had a 16-year relationship with choreographer/artist Audrey Kindred, then became a full-time caregiver to her hairdresser/

manicurist A manicurist or nail technician is a person whose occupation is to style and shape a person's nails. This is achieved using a combination of decorating nails with coloured varnish, transfers, gems or glitter. Basic treatments include manicures a ...

mother Rachel Lanzillotto. Annie Lanzillotto survived

Hodgkin's Lymphoma Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is a type of lymphoma, in which cancer originates from a specific type of white blood cell called lymphocytes, where multinucleated Reed–Sternberg cells (RS cells) are present in the patient's lymph nodes. The condition wa ...

and

thyroid cancer Thyroid cancer is cancer that develops from the tissues of the thyroid gland. It is a disease in which cells grow abnormally and have the potential to spread to other parts of the body. Symptoms can include swelling or a lump in the neck. C ...

and has been a patient at

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK or MSKCC) is a cancer treatment and research institution in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, founded in 1884 as the New York Cancer Hospital. MSKCC is one of 52 National Cancer Institute– ...

in New York City since she was 18 years old.

Awards, grants, and honors

* 1986 Eva A. Mooar Award for the graduating

female senior who had the most impact on the community and city of Providence, Rhode Island 1986. * 1999

New York Foundation for the Arts The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is an independent 501(c)(3) charity, funded through government, foundation, corporate, and individual support, established in 1971. It is part of a network of national not-for-profit arts organizations ...

Fellowship in Multi-Disciplinary Performance * 1996

Puffin Foundation The Puffin Foundation, established in 1983, is a non-profit organization that aims to amplify the voices of minorities who may underrepresented due to their race, gender, social philosophy, etc. The foundation achieves this mission of fostering ...

Grant * 1996

Dancing In The Streets ''Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy'' is a book authored by Barbara Ehrenreich. Description The author coins the term "collective joy" to describe group events which involve music, synchronized movement, costumes, and a fee ...

On/Site NYC CommissionDancing In The Streets, Inc.
/ref> * 2004–present,

Marquis Who's Who Marquis Who's Who ( or ) is an American publisher of a number of directories containing short biographies. The books usually are entitled ''Who's Who in...'' followed by some subject, such as ''Who's Who in America'', ''Who's Who of American Wome ...

Next Generation Leadership Program grant administered through

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...

Research Center for Leadership in Action. * 2012 2nd Place John and Rose Petracca & Family Award in Poetry from Philadelphia Poets. * 2012

Franklin Furnace Archive Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. is an arts organization-in-residence at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Since its inception in 1976, Franklin Furnace has been identifying, presenting, archiving, and making avant-garde art available to the p ...

Inc. Performance Commission * 2014

26th Lambda Literary Awards The 26th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 2, 2014, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2013.

Finalist * 2014

Fellowship in Non-Fiction

Works

Books

* ''Hard Candy: Caregiving, Mourning, and Stage Light,'' and ''Pitch Roll Yaw'', Guernica World Editions, 2018. * ''Schistsong,'' Bordighera Press, 2013. PoetryAnnie Lanzillotto
''Schistsong,''
2013. * ''L is For Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir,'' SUNY Albany Press, 2013.Annie Lanzillotto
''L is For Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir,''
2013.

Essays

* ''An Artist Journeys Home'', in ''Works of HeART: Building Village Through the Arts'', edited by Lynne Elizabeth and Susanne Young,

, 2006.''New Village Press''
/ref> * ''Wallid Walla Bint'', in ''Politics of Water: A Confluence of Women's Voices'',

International Feminist Journal of Politics The ''International Feminist Journal of Politics'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering international relations and international political economy with a focus on gender issues in global politics. The journal was established by ...

, Issue 9.4, Guest Editor:

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 ...

and Nandita Ghosh. ''Centre for International and Security Studies'', Toronto Ontario, Canada,

York University York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,0 ...

, 2007.''Wallid Walla Bint,''
in Politics of Water: A Confluence of Women's Voices, Issue 9.4, Guest Editor:

, Centre for International and Security Studies, Toronto Ontario, Canada,

, 2007. * ''Cosa Mangia Oggi,'' in ''Gastropolis: Food and New York City'',

Columbia University Press Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University. It is currently directed by Jennifer Crewe (2014–present) and publishes titles in the humanities and sciences, including the fiel ...

, ed. by Annie Hauck-Lawson, Jonathan Deutsch, 2007Annie Hauck-Lawson and Jonathan Deutsch, eds
Gastropolis: Food and New York City
, 2007.

Discography

* ''Eleven Recitations'', StreetCry Productions, 2009.Annie Lanzillotto
Eleven Recitations
* ''Blue Pill'', Annie Lanzillotto Band, StreetCry Productions, recorded at ''The Loft'',

Bronxville Bronxville is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States, located approximately north of Midtown Manhattan. It is part of the town of Eastchester. The village comprises one square mile (2.5 km2) of land in its entirety, ...

, NY, 2010.Annie Lanzillotto Band
Blue Pill.
* ''Carry My Coffee'', with

Lori Goldston Lori Goldston is an American cellist and composer. Accomplished in a wide variety of styles, including classical, world music, rock and free improvisation, she came to prominence as the touring cellist for Nirvana from 1993–1994 and appears on ...

on cello. 2011.Annie Lanzillotto and

Carry My Coffee.
/ref> * ''Swampjuice: Yankee With a Southern Peasant Soul'', Annie Lanzillotto and Washbucket Blues, with Al Hemberger on guitars and bass,

JT Lewis Joseph Theodore Lewis (born May 18, 2000) is an American school safety advocate. Lewis started Newtown Helps Rwanda, a charity that raised money for survivors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide as well as former child soldiers in Uganda. He previousl ...

on drums, Rose Imperato on Tenor Sax and Flute, Bobby LaSardo on Blues Harp and Tenor Sax. Recorded at The Loft, Bronxville, New York 2016. * ''Never Argue With a Jackass'', Annie Lanzillotto, with Al Hemberger on bass and production, Pasquale Cangiano on pocket trumpet. Recorded at The Loft, Bronxville, New York 2018.https://annielanzillotto.bandcamp.com/

References

Notes Further reading
''Playing to the Senses: Food as Performance Medium''
by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett in ''Performance Research'' 4, 1, pp 1–30. 1999. * ''A Lived History Under Scrutiny: Italian American

Performance Art Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a pu ...

'' by Joseph Sciorra in ''Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture'', edited by

Edvige Giunta Edvige Giunta (born 1959) is a Sicilian-American writer, educator, and literary critic. Biography She was born in Gela Gela (Sicilian and ; grc, Γέλα) is a city and (municipality) in the Autonomous Region of Sicily, Italy; in terms of ...

and Kathleen Zamboni McCormick.

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, 2010. * ''Uncovering and Performing Italian American Stories'' by Stefania Taviano, i
''Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture''
edited by Edvige Giunta and Kathleen Zamboni McCormick

2010.
''Live from the Nebulizer: Annie Lanzillotto and Eviction Survival''
by Hillary Miller in ''Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association'' Issue VI, 2015. * ''Fuori per sempre: Gay and Lesbian Italian Americans Come Out'' by George de Stefano in ''The Routledge History of Italian Americans'' edited by William J. Connell and Stanislao G. Pugliese

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, 2018. pp 565–580

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