Paola Corso is the recipient of the 2000 Sherwood Anderson Fiction Prize and was nominated for a Pushcart Press Editors' Book Award. She is a New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellow and author of a book of poems, Death by Renaissance. A native of the Pittsburgh area, she now lives in Brooklyn and teaches fiction in New York City
"Memorable and entrancing.... These stories... remain powerful in the moment thanks to the imagery's dream-like density." - Publishers Weekly "Captivating storytelling in the tradition of Italian fairytale makers." - Rain Taxi "Paola Corso conjures a world... a humble if pinched society, down on its luck but at least rich in tradition. She honors that fact here, and then some." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Corso knows the secret to surviving in every small fading Western Pennsylvania town: a mix of quiet courage and a wild imagination. Generation to generation, the women of Giovanna's 86 Circles somehow find the power to redeem the everyday." - Stewart O'Nan, author of The Good Wife "A major contribution to female Italian American literature. Corso mixes fable and grit to illustrate the beauty, power, and necessity of storytelling." - Rita Ciresi, author of Remind Me Again Why I Married You "Best Short Stories of 2005" in Montserrat Review"
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