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Paola Corso (May 28, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American fiction writer, poet, and essayist. Corso is a New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellow〔New York Foundation for the Arts, Artists' Fellowship - Poetry, (Paola Corso ), 2003.〕 and Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award Winner,〔(List of Sherwood Anderson Foundation Writers Awards ), 2000.〕 and is the author of ''Catina’s Haircut: A Novel in Stories'' (2010) on Library Journal’s notable list of first novels,〔Library Journal's (First Novels: Fall Firsts ), 2010.〕 ''Giovanna’s 86 Circles And Other Stories'' (2005), a Binghamton University's John Gardner Fiction Book Award Finalist,〔(Past Winners, Paola Corso ), 2010.〕 a book of poems, ''Death by Renaissance'' (2004), and newly released poetry collections, ''The Laundress Catches Her Breath''〔Corso, Paola. (The Laundress Catches Her Breath ), CavanKerry Press, 2012.〕 and ''Once I Was Told the Air Was Not for Breathing'' (2012),〔Corso, Paola. (Once I Was Told the Air Was Not For Breathing ), Parallel Press, 2012.〕 about Pittsburgh steelworkers and garment workers in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Her books are set in the Pittsburgh area, where her Southern Italian immigrant family found work in the steel mill. Her themes include ethnicity, the working class, social change, and magical leaps. Corso has also written poetry books about growing up near a toxic dump that was on the EPA's Superfund List, the city's history of water and air pollution, and the link between cancer and a polluted environment in the workplace. She co-edited an anthology, ''Politics of Water: A Confluence of Women's Voices'' and wrote an introductory personal essay on the subject of industrial pollution. Formerly a writer-in-residence in Western Connecticut State University’s MFA Program in Creative and Professional Writing,〔Western Connecticut State University's (MFA Program in Creative and Professional Writing ).〕 Corso is currently is a lecturer in Chatham University's MFA Program in Creative Writing.〔Chatham University's MFA Creative Writing and Staff, (Paola Corso ).〕 She lives in New York City. ==Life, career, and community organizing== Corso was born in the Alle-Kiski Valley of Allegheny County, in the Pittsburgh area and lived as a young adult in the city’s East End neighborhood, Squirrel Hill. She graduated from Boston College with her BA in Sociology. She continued her education at San Francisco State University, where she obtained an MPA in Public Administration/Community Organizing. In 1999, Corso received her MA in Creative Writing/English from City College of New York/ CUNY. Before teaching creative writing at the college level, Corso was a community organizer and grant writer for non-profits. She created collaborative community arts projects. She partnered with Northside Common Ministries, a Pittsburgh ecumenical organization and its members to co-write plays with Michael Winks about homelessness and hunger, based on interviews they conducted in shelters and food pantries. ''House of Cards'' was produced at Pittsburgh Public Theater and ''Leftovers'' was awarded a state grant from Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Corso was also a resident writer for the National Endowment for the Arts WritersCorps in the Bronx where she introduced literary arts in hospitals and senior centers.〔Bronx Council for the Arts, (WritersCorps ).〕 She co-founded the National Writers Union New York Local's Community Writing Project〔(National Writers Union NYC Chapter ).〕 and led writing workshops in a Manhattan shelter for single mothers. Her community service earned her a place on the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Artist & Communities Short List. Most recently, she co-curated the reading series, WORDsprouts at the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn〔Park Slope Food Coop, (WORDsprouts event. )〕 and founded Writers in the Wall, a creative writing workshop and reading series in the Pittsburgh river town of Aspinwall.〔Aspinwall Civic Association Events, (Writers in the Wall, Creative Writing Workshop and Reading Series ), Hosted by Paola Corso.〕 She is the daughter of Vincenza Marie Calderone and Mario Procopio Corso. Corso is married to Michael Winks; the couple has two sons, Giona Donato Mariano and Mario Curruchiche. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paola Corso」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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