Paola Corso
Author, Editor, Lecturer at Chatham University
- Role
- Lecturer at Chatham University
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Paola Corso
Paola Corso is an award-winning author and community activist whose fiction and poetry books are set in her native Pittsburgh area where her Southern Italian immigrant family found work in the steel mill. Books: The Laundress Catches Her Breath Once I Was Told the Air Was Not for Breathing Catina’s Haircut: A Novel in Stories Giovanna’s 86 Circles and Other Stories Death by Renaissance A Proper Burial Politics of Water: A Confluence of Women’s Voices co-edited with Dr. Nandita Ghosh Awards:(partial list) New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellowship Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Projects: Poetry Editor, Thomas Merton Center for Peace and Social Justice’s New People Columnist, Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP) Greening Your Bookshelf Co-founder, Steppin’ Stanzas, a performing arts series on Pittsburgh city steps Co-founder, National Writers Union NYC Local’s Community Writing Project Co-founder, Park Slope Food Coop’s Reading Series, WORDsprouts in Brooklyn, NY
Experience
Lecturer
Jan 2012 — Present · Pittsburgh, PA, US
Low residency MFA program in Creative Writing
Education
City University of New York City College
Master's degree
San Francisco State University
Master's degree
Boston College
Bachelor's degree
Skills
- Fiction
- Storytelling
- Art
- Tutoring
- Copy Editing
- Nonprofits
- Mentoring
- Oral History
- Editing
- Creative Writing
- Books
- Publications
- Publishing
- Grant Writing
- Community Organizing
- Poetry
- Writing Centers
- Journalism
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