Maria Dintino has work-ed in higher education for thirty years, the first twenty-three at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire, as an educational counselor and instructor of first-year writing, and the past six years in the library at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida. Maria is co-founder and writer for the Nasty Women Writers project, where she and her sister Theresa highlight women whose voices have been sidelined and erased from the fabric of our collective experience. Nasty Women Writers resists this shut down on powerful women's voices and claims #nasty as a stance of power, not the put-down often intended. Visit their website: nastywomenwriters.com.Currently, Maria lives in St. Augustine, Florida, yet makes trips north whenever possible to visit family, friends, and especially her grandson, Jaxson.
"In The Light Above, Maria Dintino finds brilliantly rich parallels
between her sixties childhood in New England and the life of
Margaret Fuller (American transcendentalist, women's rights
champion, public intellectual) over a hundred years earlier. The
effect is moving and profound, a wise and warm examination of the
struggles and rewards common to most women, including the journey
of learning the world and ourselves through deep study, experience,
and love."-Liz Robbins, author of Play Button and Hope, As the
World Is a Scorpion Fish
"This well-crafted memoir gives us an intimate look into the minds
and lives of two intellectual daughters of New England: Maria
Dintino and Margaret Fuller. Dintino . . . has skillfully created a
personal voice for Fuller, which unfolds alongside her own.
Daughter of a first-generation Italian American and a longer
established New Hampshirite, Dintino is compelled to share her
world and her understanding of it. She is steeped in the knowledge
of Fuller's world as well. The narrative continues to turn as both
women pursue their dreams and their consciousness . . . a most
satisfying read."-Marisella Veiga, author of We Carry Our Homes
with Us: A Cuban American Memoir
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