Annie Rachele Lanzillotto is a poet, performance artist, songwriter, author and playwright.  Her books include: “Hard Candy: Caregiving, Mourning and Stagelight,” “Pitch, Roll, Yaw” (Guernica), "L is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir" (SUNY Press), (Lambda Literary Award finalist) and "Schistsong," (Bordighera). 

For more info, go to: www.annielanzillotto.com

Rebecca Bauman is Associate Professor of Italian at Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY, where she also teaches in the Department of Film, Media and Performing Arts. She has published essays and book chapters on Italian melodrama, masculinity in Italian cinema, and mafia movies in such publications as the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies and Italian Studies. She is Film and Digital Media Reviews editor for the Italian American Review and is Chair of the Columbia Seminar in Modern Italian Studies. 

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.

George Guida is Professor at the New York City College of Technology's English Department.  

He is the author of Pugilistic: Poems, The Sleeping Gulf: Poems, The Pope Stories and Spectacles of Themselves: Essays in Italian American Popular Culture and Literature.  

Joanna Clapps Herman is an Italian American writer, editor and poet. She is the author of three books of prose, editor of two anthologies, and her essays and writing have been published in many anthologies and literary journals.

Among the books Joanna has written are When I am Italian, The Anarchist Bastard and No Long and Not Yet: Short Stories.

Jennifer Martelli is the author of The Uncanny Valley and My Tarantella (Bordighera Press), which was selected as a 2019 “Must Read” by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Her chapbook, After Bird was the winner of the Grey Book Press open reading, 2016. Her work is forthcoming in Poetry Magazine and The Sycamore Review and, most recently, has appeared in Verse Daily, The DMQ Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and Iron Horse Review (winner, Photo Finish contest). Jennifer Martelli is the recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant in Poetry. She is co-poetry editor for Mom Egg Review and co-curates the Italian-American Writers Series at I AM Books in Boston.

Marianne Leone has had roles in several films, including True Love 1989), Goodfellas (1990).  Her longest-running recurring role was on the The Sopranos.

She is also a writer. Her book Knowing Jesse was written in 2007 and more recently her book Ma Speaks Up was published by Beacon Press.  She has also contributed to Ovunque Siamo’s publications.

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