Edvige Giunta is the author of Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors and coeditor of six anthologies, including The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture and Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, recipient of the 2023 Susan Koppelman Award for Best Anthology in Feminist Studies in American and Popular Culture, just published in Italy by Iacobelli as Le ragazze della Triangle. Her memoirs, essays, poems, and interviews appear in anthologies, journals, and magazines. At New Jersey City University, where she is Professor of English, she teaches courses on memoir and a course on the Triangle fires as well as other literature and writing classes.
Along with international screenings and honors, Nancy Savoca’s films True Love and Household Saints are listed in The NY Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, and True Love was named one of the “50 Greatest Independent Films of All Time” by Entertainment Weekly. HBO’s If These Walls Could Talk won multiple Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. Reno: Rebel Without a Pause (Unrestrained Reflections on September 11th) was awarded the Seal of Peace by the City of Florence, Italy. Dirt, a bilingual dramedy on immigration won Best Director at LALatinoFest and a Writer’s Guild nomination. Savoca’s archives are part of University of Michigan’s Film Mavericks Collection which holds the works of Orson Welles, Robert Altman, and her mentors John Sayles and Jonathan Demme.
Paola Corso is the author of seven poetry and fiction books set in her native Pittsburgh where her Southern Italian immigrant family members were steel workers. Most recent are The Laundress Catches Her Breath, winner of the Tillie Olsen Award in Creative Writing, Once I Was Told the Air Was Not Breathing, winner of a Triangle Fire Memorial Association Award, and Vertical Bridges: Poems and Photographs of City Steps. Earlier poems from her current work in progress, Oxygen for Two, won First Runner-up in the Bordighera Poetry Prize judged by Donna Masini. Her essays have appeared in venues such as “The New York Times” and “Women’s Review of Books.” Writing honors include a New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellowship and Sherwood Anderson Fiction Prize. A literary activist and photographer in a Brooklyn artist’s collective, Corso gives readings and exhibits in libraries, galleries, and community settings.
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