Paola Corso
Lecturer @Chatham University
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WORK HISTORY
Lecturer @Chatham University
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
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
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