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Author
Biography
Paola
Corso is an award-winning fiction writer, poet, and essayist. Her honors
include a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in poetry and the Sherwood
Anderson Fiction Award as well as The
Jerome Lowell DeJur Award for
Creative Writing and The Alice and Irwin Stark Short Fiction Prize from The City
College of New York where she earned her master's degree in creative writing.
She
is the author of the short story collection Giovanna's 86 Circles,
named Best Short Stories of 2005 in The Montserrat Review and a John
Gardner Fiction Book Award Finalist, and also two collections of poems, Death
by Renaissance and A Proper Burial, set in her native
Pittsburgh
where her Italian immigrant
grandfather and father worked in the steel mill. Her unpublished poetry
collections Oxygen for Two and The Laundress Catches Her Breath
were both first runner-up in the Bordighera
Poetry Prize judged
by Donna Masini. She is co-editor along with Dr.
Nandita Ghosh of a special issue, Confluence: Women's Voices on the Politics
of Water, forthcoming in the International Journal of Feminist Politics published
by Routledge Press.
Her
fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in anthologies such as The Best
Travel Writing of 2006, Chance of a Ghost, Getting By: Narratives
of Working Lives, O Taste and See: Food Poems, Sudden Stories,
and the forthcoming anthology 30 Days in Italy.
Other
publication credits include Writer's Digest, The Writer, The Progressive,
USA TODAY, The Christian
Science Monitor, U.S Catholic, Feminist Studies, Women's
Studies Quarterly, Italian Americana, Voices in Italian Americana,
The Delta Review, Connecticut Review, Western Pennsylvania
History, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette.
Paola
Corso has read her work at such venues across the country as The New York Public
Library, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, the Calandra Institute for Italian
American Studies, the American Labor Museum, the Heinz Regional History Center
of Western Pennsylvania, The International Student and Scholar Institute at
Northeastern University, International Women's Day/Women at Work at Montclair
State University, Bookwoman, and the
National Organization of Italian
American Women.
In
addition, she
has presented workshops and participated in author panel discussions at
conferences of Associated Writing Programs, the Center for Working Class Studies,
Pennsylvania School Librarian Association, Italian American Historical
Association, Gemini Ink, PennWriters, Ligonier Valley Writers, and The Writers
Center.
She
has taught writing at the community level with the National Endowment for the
Arts WritersCorps administered by the Bronx Council on the Arts and the National
Writers Union New York Local, and at the university level, currently as a
writer-in-residence in
Western
Connecticut
State
University's Low-Residency MFA Program in
Professional Writing.
Paola
earned her bachelor's degree from Boston
College, a master's in creative writing from
The City College of New York-City University of New York, and a master's in
public administration from
San Francisco
State
University. A native of
Pittsburgh, she now lives in Brooklyn
with playwright Michael Winks and son
Giona.
For
more about Paola Corso's fiction and poetry, read her columns on the Other
Works page and an Interview.
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