Christine Palamidessi Moore

Christine Palamidessi Moore (born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an Italian-American writer and novelist.

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, New York Times, Boston Globe, Italian Americana, Aethlon, Stone's Throw.[2] 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.[3][4]

Her novel, The Virgin Knows, is set in Boston's Italian neighborhood, the North End.[5]

She has been a Senior Editor at Italian Americana since 2000.[6]

Works

  • The Virgin Knows,. St. Martin's. 1993. ISBN 0-312-13203-4.
  • The Fiddle Case. Gate. 2010.
  • American Woman, Italian Style with editor Carol Bonomo Albright.

Anthologies

  • Carol Bonomo Albright, Joanna Clapps Herman, eds. (2008). "Card Palace". Wild Dreams: The Best of Italian Americana. Fordham Univ Press. ISBN 978-0-8232-2910-9.
  • Regina Barreca, ed. (2002). Don't Tell Mama: The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-200247-6.
  • Carol Bonomo Albright and Joanna Clapps Herman, ed. (2006). Our Roots Are Deep with Passion: creative nonfiction collects essays by Italian Americans. Other Press. ISBN 978-1-59051-242-5.

Sources

  1. ↑ "Moore, Christine Palamidessi - Writers Directory 2006 | HighBeam Research - FREE trial". Highbeam.com. 2005-01-01. Retrieved 2011-02-28.
  2. ↑ http://www.pw.org/content/ c_palamidessi
  3. ↑ "Grandmothers. Writing on the Line". Nuweb.neu.edu. Retrieved 2011-02-28.
  4. ↑ A guide to public art in Greater ... - Google Books. Books.google.com. 2009-12-07. Retrieved 2011-02-28.
  5. ↑ "An Annotated Bibliography of Fiction Set in Boston (working draft)". Webcas.cas.suffolk.edu. Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2011-02-28.
  6. ↑ "Our Editors". Italianamericana.com. Retrieved 2011-02-28.

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