Life
She graduated from Boston University with a Master of Arts from the Creative Writing Department where she studied with Leslie Epstein, Sue Miller and Richard Elman. She taught writing at the University from 1993 to 2000. [1]
Her work appeared in Andy Warhol's Interview, New Woman Magazine, New Video Magazine, Saturday Evening Post , The New York Times , The Boston Globe , Italian Americana , Aethlon and Stone's Throw. Her memoir, Grandmothers, won a Boston MBTA Monument Award and was engraved on a granite monolith displayed at Jackson Square on Boston's Orange Line. [2] [3]
Her novel, The Virgin Knows, is set in Boston's Italian neighborhood, the North End. [4]
She has been a Senior Editor at Italian Americana since 2000. [5]
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