Christine Palamidessi Moore

Christine Palamidessi Moore (born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an Italian-American writer and novelist.

Life

She graduated from Boston University with a Master of Arts from the Creative Writing Department where she studied with Leslie Epstein, Sue Miller and Richard Elman. She taught writing at the University from 1993 to 2000.^[1]

Her work appeared in Andy Warhol’s Interview, New Woman Magazine, New Video Magazine, Saturday Evening Post, New York Times, Boston Globe, Italian Americana, Aethlon, Stone's Throw.^[2] Her memoir, Grandmothers, won a Boston MBTA Monument Award and was engraved on a granite monolith displayed at Jackson Square on Boston's Orange Line.^[3][4]

Her novel, The Virgin Knows, is set in Boston's Italian neighborhood, the North End.^[5]

She has been a Senior Editor at Italian Americana since 2000.^[6]

Works

• The Virgin Knows,. St. Martin's. 1993. ISBN 0-312-13203-4.
• The Fiddle Case. Gate. 2010.
• American Woman, Italian Style with editor Carol Bonomo Albright.

Anthologies

• Carol Bonomo Albright, Joanna Clapps Herman, eds. (2008). "Card Palace". Wild Dreams: The Best of Italian Americana. Fordham Univ Press. ISBN 978-0-8232-2910-9.
• Regina Barreca, ed. (2002). Don't Tell Mama: The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-200247-6.
• Carol Bonomo Albright and Joanna Clapps Herman, ed. (2006). Our Roots Are Deep with Passion: creative nonfiction collects essays by Italian Americans. Other Press. ISBN 978-1-59051-242-5.

Sources

1. "Moore, Christine Palamidessi - Writers Directory 2006 | HighBeam Research - FREE trial". Highbeam.com. 2005-01-01. Retrieved 2011-02-28.
2. http://www.pw.org/content/ c_palamidessi
3. "Grandmothers. Writing on the Line". Nuweb.neu.edu. Retrieved 2011-02-28.
4. A guide to public art in Greater ... - Google Books. Books.google.com. 2009-12-07. Retrieved 2011-02-28.
5. "An Annotated Bibliography of Fiction Set in Boston (working draft)". Webcas.cas.suffolk.edu. Retrieved 2011-02-28.
6. "Our Editors". Italianamericana.com. Retrieved 2011-02-28.

External links

• "Author's website"