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Daniela Gioseffi
was one of SoHo's early performance poets. She's read her poetry
around the world, but currently resides back in Brooklyn Heights,
her home base for thirty years. Gioseffi won the American Book Award
for WOMEN ON WAR: International Voices (Simon & Schuster/TOUCHSTONE.
1990) soon to be published in a new edition by The Feminist Press,
NY, 2002. She's won a World Peace Award for ON PREJUDICE: A Global
Perspective, (Doubleday/ANCHOR, 1993)-- a compendium of world literature
on issues of xenophobia, sexism and racism. Her newest book of poetry
is an e-book titled SYMBIOSIS, Rattapallax Press, 2001. Prior books
of poetry are WORD WOUNDS & WATER FLOWERS, and GOING ON (VIA/Bordighera
Press @ Purdue Universtiy: West Lafayette; IN, 1995 and 2001 respectively.)
Her premier collection of poetry was EGGS IN THE LAKE (Boa Editions,
Ltd. Rochester: NY, 1979.) Gioseffi's first novel, was THE GREAT
AMERICAN BELLY, (Doubleday/Dell: NY and New English Library: London,
1979) It was made into a screenplay by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright,
Michael Christofer,. Her latest collection of fiction is IN BED
WITH THE EXOTIC ENEMY, stories & novella (Avisson Press, Greensboro
NC,1997.) She's winner of two grants in poetry from The New York
State Council for the Arts as well as a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award
for Daffodil Dollars which aired on National Public Radio where
Daniela has read her poetry, as well. Her work will be engraved
in marble on an artist's installation on a newly renovated wall
of PENN Station, 2002.
Daniela edits: http://www.PoetsUSA.com
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