Cecilia Galante

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Cecilia Galante
Born
Mount Hope Commune, New York
EducationBachelor of Arts, Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
Alma mater King's College, Goddard College
Occupations
  • Writer
  • college instructor
  • middle-high school English teacher
Employer(s) Wyoming Seminary Preparatory School, Wilkes University
Known forAuthor, Former Child and Teen Commune Resident
Notable work The Patron Saint of Butterflies
StyleYoung Adult and Adult fiction
SpousePaul Galante
Parents
  • Joe Plummer (father)
  • Terry Plummer (mother)
Website http://www.ceciliagalanteauthor.com/

Cecilia (Plummer) Galante is a twenty-first century American author.

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Background

Galante has a BA from King's College in Pennsylvania, and an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College in Vermont. Prior to becoming a successful author, she taught high school English and wrote a monthly book column for the Times Leader newspaper. [1] In 2011, at a fundraising event for St. Martin's Ministry (an outreach to poor and homeless people on Maryland's Eastern Shore run by the Benedictine Sisters and Volunteers at St. Gertrude's Monastery in Ridgely, Maryland), Ms. Galante revealed that she was "once a needy mother with an infant daughter in a battered women’s shelter.” [2] [3]

Publications

The Patron Saint of Butterflies

Her first book, The Patron Saint of Butterflies published in April 2008, is an acclaimed, allusion of the life experiences of children raised at the Mount Hope religious commune in New York under the auspices of scholar, philosopher, and cult leader Herbert T. Schwartz. [4] [5] Cecelia Galante, herself, was born and raised at Mount Hope religious commune for the first fifteen years of her life during the mid-twentieth century. [6] [7] [8] She lived there with her parents, Terry and Joe Plummer, as well as her seven other siblings, of whom she is the eldest. [9] After the Plummer family left the commune, they settled in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania where Cecilia attended High School. [10]

Other books

Galante's 6-volume series of chapter books for young readers, titled Little Wings, was translated into Turkish and Japanese. [11]

Personal

Cecilia Galante has three children as well as "a very lazy cat named Julius." [12] [13] When she is not writing, Galante teaches creative writing as a faculty member of the Graduate Creative Writing Department at Wilkes University. She lives in Kingston, Pennsylvania and teaches English at a private school for 8th grade.

National press

As part of a "Banned Book Books Week" series in The Huffington Post, in 2011, Ms. Galante was given the opportunity to explain why it was important that The Patron Saint of Butterflies was banned from some libraries. [14] In July 2012, The Washington Post interviewed Ms. Galante and described her book, The Summer of May, as a book that is "as refreshing as a cool summer breeze." [15]

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References

  1. ↑ Galante, Cecilia (2008). The Patron Saint of Butterflies . New York: Bloomsbury USA Childrens. ISBN   978-1599902494.
  2. ↑ Ryan, Joseph. "Books and bids down by the bay". St. Martin’s Ministries. Wordpress. Archived from the original on 6 January 2014. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
  3. ↑ Ridgely Benedictines. "Who We Are". Website for St. Gertrude Monastery. The Benedictine Sisters of Ridgely, Maryland. Archived from the original on 15 April 2012. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
  4. ↑ Sellers, John (2008-02-18). "Required Reading". Publishers Weekly. 255 (7): 64.
  5. ↑ Galante, Cecilia (29 September 2011). "Why My Book Being Banned Is A Privilege". Huffington Post. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
  6. ↑ Sellers, John (2008-02-18). "Required Reading". Publishers Weekly. 255 (7): 64.
  7. ↑ Jones, Laura Mead. "Program for the New World Order-The Patron Saint of Butterflies". Mamaleh Lariska. Harris and Nelson.com. Archived from the original on 2013-10-05. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
  8. ↑ Kenney, Brian. "The Debut: Cecilia Galante". Print article online. The School Library Journal. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  9. ↑ Jones, Laura Mead. "Metanoia for Kids". Mamaleh-Larisa.com. Mamaleh-Larisa.com. Archived from the original on 2013-10-05. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
  10. ↑ Galante, Cecilia. "Author Bio". Official Cecilia Galante Website. Official Cecilia Galante Website. Archived from the original on 2012-11-07. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
  11. ↑ Galante, Cecilia. "Author Bio". Official Cecilia Galante Website. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  12. ↑ Luzerne (Wyoming) County Libraries. "Meet Cecilia Galante". Luzerne (Wyoming) County Libraries. Luzerne Libraries.org. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
  13. ↑ Galante, Cecilia (2008). The Patron Saint of Butterflies . New York: Bloomsbury USA Childrens. p.  293. ISBN   978-1599902494.
  14. ↑ Galante, Cecilia (29 September 2011). "Why My Book Being Banned Is A Privilege". Huffington Post. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
  15. ↑ Grant, Tracy (1 August 2012). "'Summer of May' is far from perfect". The Washington Post. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
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