Rita Ciresi

Fiction Writer

Tampa, FL
Florida US
Email: 
rciresi@usf.edu
Website: 
www.ritaciresi.com

Author's Bio

Rita Ciresi is the author of four novels--Blue Italian, Pink Slip, Remind Me Again Why I Married You, and Bring Back My Body to Me--and two short-story collections, Sometimes I Dream in Italian and Mother Rocket.

She is professor of English and director of creative writing at the University of South Florida in Tampa, a mentor for the Bay Path University online MFA program in nonfiction, and fiction editor of 2 Bridges Review.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
The Italian American Reader (Morrow, 2003)
,
Don't Tell Mama: The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing (Penguin, 2002)
,
The Milk of Almonds (Feminist Press at CUNY, 2002)
Books:
Remind Me Again Why I Married You (Bantam/Dell, 2003)
,
Sometimes I Dream in Italian (Delacorte Press, 2001)
,
Pink Slip (Delacorte, 1999)
,
Blue Italian (Ecco Press, 1996)
,
Mother Rocket (University of Georgia Press, 1993)
Journals:
Oregon Review
,
Prairie Schooner
,
South Carolina Review
Prizes won: 

Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Book Award, Pirate's Alley Faulkner Prize for the Novel, Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Series

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Italian American
Born in: 
New Haven
Raised in: 
New Haven, CT
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Last update: Dec 05, 2016