Edvige (Edi) Giunta is the author of Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors.

Among her books are Personal Effects (co-edited with Nancy Caronia) and Embroidered Stories, an anthology on domestic needlework in the Italian diaspora (edited with Joseph Sciorra).

Edi is a Professor of English at New Jersey City University, where she has trained scores of students, many first-generation immigrants, in the art of memoir. She has completed No Confetti For the Dead, a memoir moored in the space between her homeland of Sicily and North America (with Mary Anne Trasciatti).

Currently, Edi is completing an anthology of personal essay on the Triangle Fire.