Rita Ciresi
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Rita Ciresi (born in New Haven, Connecticut) is an Italian-American short story writer, and novelist.
Life
She graduated from Pennsylvania State University with an M.F.A. She teaches at the University of South Florida.[1][2]
Her work appeared in Oregon Review, Prairie Schooner, South Carolina Review.[3]
Awards
- 2002 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, for Mother Rocket
- 1993 Los Angeles Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
- 2004 American Academy in Rome visiting writer
- 2005 Hawthornden International Writers’ Retreat fellowship in Lasswade, Scotland
Works
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Anthologies
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References
External links
Categories:
- Writers from New Haven, Connecticut
- American short story writers
- 20th-century American novelists
- Year of birth missing (living people)
- Living people
- American people of Italian descent
- University of South Florida faculty
- Pennsylvania State University alumni
- 21st-century American novelists
- American women novelists
- 20th-century women writers
- 21st-century women writers
