Rita Ciresi
Appearance
Rita Ciresi (born in New Haven, Connecticut) is an Italian-American short story writer, and novelist.
Life
She graduated from Pennsylvania State University with an M.F.A. She teaches at the University of South Florida.[1][2]
Her work appeared in Oregon Review, Prairie Schooner, South Carolina Review.[3]
Awards
- 2002 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, 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
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- Blue Italian,. Ecco Press. 1996. ISBN 978-0-88001-515-8. (paperback by Delacorte Press in 1997)
- Pink Slip. Delacorte. 1999. ISBN 978-0-385-32363-5. (Delta Trade paperbacks in 2000)
- Remind Me Again Why I Married You. Random House, Inc. 2003. ISBN 978-0-385-33585-0.
- Mother Rocket: stories. Random House, Inc. 2002. ISBN 978-0-385-33592-8.
- Sometimes I Dream in Italian. Random House, Inc. 2001. ISBN 978-0-385-33494-5.
Anthologies
- "Toward a New Catholic Novel". Breaking open: reflections on Italian American women's writing. Purdue University Press. 2003. ISBN 978-1-55753-243-5.
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- Regina Barreca, ed. (2002). Don't Tell Mama: The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-200247-6.
- "Big Heart". The Milk of Almonds. Feminist Press. 2002. ISBN 978-1-55861-453-6.
References
External links
Categories:
- Writers from New Haven, Connecticut
- 20th-century American novelists
- Living people
- American people of Italian descent
- University of South Florida faculty
- Pennsylvania State University alumni
- 21st-century American novelists
- American women novelists
- 20th-century American women writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- 20th-century American short story writers
- 21st-century American short story writers
- Novelists from Florida
- Novelists from Connecticut