| Biography
Anna Monardo Originally from Pittsburgh and a long-time resident of New York, Anna Monardo
joined the Writer's Workshop faculty in 1997. Her novel Falling In Love with Natassia
was published by Doubleday in June 2006. Excerpts first appeared in Prairie Schooner
and were nominated for Pushcart Prizes. Her first novel, The Courtyard of Dreams
(Doubleday, 1993), set largely in southern Italy, was translated into German, Norwegian
and Danish, and was nominated for a PEN/Hemingway Award and recommended for
the National Book Critics Circle Award. Monardo’s stories, essays and poems have been
anthologized, featured on National Public Radio, and published or are forthcoming in The
Sun, More, Salon.com, Huffington Post, Poets & Writers, Indiana Review, Redbook and
other magazines and journals. A three-time recipient of Nebraska Arts Council Individual
Artist Fellowships in fiction and creative nonfiction, she has also received fellowships
from Yaddo, MacDowell, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Djerassi
Foundation. |
