PAOLA CORSO  
award-winning fiction writer, poet, and essayist
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Author Biography

Books

The Laundress

Once I Was Told

Catina's Haircut 

Giovanna's 86 Circles

Death by Renaissance

Politics of Water

Other Works

Pages

Literary Pittsburgh

Pizzelle by Paola

The Triangle Fire

Wordsprouts

Writing & Community

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Other Works

Anthologies

New Hungers for Old: One-Hundred Years of Italian-American Poetry
edited by Dennis Barone

Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture
edited by Edvige Giunta and Kathleen Zamboni McCormick

Sweet Lemons 2: International Writings with a Sicilian Accent
edited by Venera Fazio and Delia De Santis

Tell: An Anthology of Expository Narrative
edited by Molly Gaudry

Wild Dreams: The Best of Italian Americana
edited by Carol Bonomo Albright and Joanna Clapps Herman

Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing
edited by Frances Payne Adler, Debra Busman, and Diana Garcia

Lavanderia: A Mixed Load of Women, Wash, and Word
edited by Donna J. Watson, Michelle Sierra & Lucia Gbaya Kanga

Foods of Affection
edited by Carol Bonomo Albright and Christine Palamidessi Moore

Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds: The Teachers of Writerscorps in Poetry and Prose
edited by Chad Sweeney and Parthenon West

The Best Travel Writing of 2006
edited by James O'Reilly, Larry Habegger, and Sean O'Reilly

Chance of a Ghost
edited by Gloria Vando and Philip Miller

Sudden Stories
edited by Dinty W. Moore

O Taste and See: Food Poems
edited by David Lee Garrison and Terry Hermsen

30 Days in Italy
edited by James O'Reilly, Larry Habegger, and Sean O'Reilly

Not Black and White: Inside Words from the Bronx WritersCorps
edited by Mary Hebert

 

Columns

"Coke, Clairton, and Cancer: A Three Decade Push for Reforms"
by Paola Corso (
Western Pennsylvania History, Winter 2007/2008)

"From Pittsburgh to New York (But Never Really Leaving)"
by Paola Corso (
Western Pennsylvania History, Spring 2004)

"Metered meditation: A writer takes poetic license with her prayer life"
by Paola Corso (U.S. Catholic Magazine, April 2005)

Featured Poet: Paola Corso (Italian Americana, Winter 2004)

 

For Writers

"What really happened" by Paola Corso
Despite
her fictional license, a writer wrestles with the truth of how her great-grandparents were really killed. (The Writer, April 2011)

"From Without and From Within" by Paola Corso
Glimmer Train Bulletin No. 45, October 2010

"Is a University Press Right for You?" by Paola Corso
An
author compares its approach to that of the big commercial houses and finds some advantages worth considering. (The Writer, November 2009)

"Falling into Place" by Paola Corso
Arrange
your poetry with a purpose to shape your collection into a cohesive, lyrical manuscript. (Writer's Digest, April 2006)

"Piece by Piece" by Paola Corso
Follow
these steps to assemble a short-story collection that readers won't be able to put down. (Writer's Digest, June 2006)

"The art of integrating theme and story" by Paola Corso
Let
ideas and attitudes emerge naturally from your fictional elements. (The Writer, August 2006)

"On Writing Against Ethnic Stereotypes" by Paola Corso
(The
Writer, November 2008)

"Bridging the gap between magic and realism: How a writer made her leaps seem natural" by Paola Corso
(The Writer, December 2006)

 

For more info and handouts from her Publishing Success and Gotta Have Story workshops, contact the author by e-mail.

 

       
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