Rita Ciresi (born in

New Haven, Connecticut New Haven is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound in New Haven County, Connecticut and is part of the New York City metropolitan area. With a population of 134,02 ...

) is an American

short story A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest ...

writer, and

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to ...

of Itialian descent.

Life

She graduated from

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvan ...

with an M.F.A. She teaches at the

University of South Florida The University of South Florida (USF) is a public research university with its main campus located in Tampa, Florida, and other campuses in St. Petersburg and Sarasota. It is one of 12 members of the State University System of Florida. USF is ...

. 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) * * *

Anthologies

* * * (reprint HarperCollins, 2005) * *

References

External links

"Author's website"
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