Reading: Anna Monardo

This free reading features celebrated writer, Anna Monardo.

Anna Monardo grew up in Pittsburgh, with strong ties to her Calabrian family; her memoir, After Italy: A Family Memoir of Arranged Marriage (Bordighera Press) is the story of her family’s immigration to the U.S. Excerpts were published in the New York Times, Creative Nonfiction, Hotel Amerika, Cimarron Review, and more. After Italy is the factual retelling of the family story at the heart of her first novel, The Courtyard of Dreams (Doubleday), which was translated into German, Norwegian, and Danish, nominated for a PEN/Hemingway Award and recommended for the National Book Critics Circle Awards. Her second novel, Falling In Love with Natassia (Doubleday), included excerpts first published in Prairie Schooner and nominated for Pushcart Prizes. A recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, the Djerassi Foundation, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, as well as three fellowships from the Nebraska Arts Council, she is Professor Emeritus in the Writer’s Workshop at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.