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Paola Corso

3.9/5 ( ratings)
Paola Corso is an author, photographer, and literary activist whose fiction and poetry books are set in her native Pittsburgh where her Southern Italian immigrant family members worked in the steel mills. A New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellow and Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award winner, Corso’s books are newly released Vertical Bridges: Poems and Photographs of City Steps; The Laundress Catches Her Breath, winner of the Tillie Olsen Award in Creative Writing; Once I Was Told the Air Was Not for Breathing, winner of a Triangle Fire Memorial Association Award, and Politics of Water: A Confluence of Women’s Voices coedited with Dr. Nandita Ghosh. Her novel, Catina’s Haircut is on the American Association for School Libraries’ “Best Books for High Schools” List and Family Tree Magazine’s Recommended Genealogy Reading List. Giovanna’s 86 Circles and Other Stories is a Sons of Italy Book Club Selection. Corso is a cofounder and resident artist of Steppin Stanzas, a grant-awarded poetry and art project celebrating city steps. Her work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Women’s Review of Books, Writer’s Digest, The Progressive, and numerous anthologies. She splits her time between New York City and Pittsburgh.

Paola Corso

3.9/5 ( ratings)
Paola Corso is an author, photographer, and literary activist whose fiction and poetry books are set in her native Pittsburgh where her Southern Italian immigrant family members worked in the steel mills. A New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellow and Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award winner, Corso’s books are newly released Vertical Bridges: Poems and Photographs of City Steps; The Laundress Catches Her Breath, winner of the Tillie Olsen Award in Creative Writing; Once I Was Told the Air Was Not for Breathing, winner of a Triangle Fire Memorial Association Award, and Politics of Water: A Confluence of Women’s Voices coedited with Dr. Nandita Ghosh. Her novel, Catina’s Haircut is on the American Association for School Libraries’ “Best Books for High Schools” List and Family Tree Magazine’s Recommended Genealogy Reading List. Giovanna’s 86 Circles and Other Stories is a Sons of Italy Book Club Selection. Corso is a cofounder and resident artist of Steppin Stanzas, a grant-awarded poetry and art project celebrating city steps. Her work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Women’s Review of Books, Writer’s Digest, The Progressive, and numerous anthologies. She splits her time between New York City and Pittsburgh.

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