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Rita Ciresi


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Rita Ciresi was born in New Haven, Connecticut, a city which serves as the backdrop for most of her fiction. Ciresi is the author of three award-winning novels and two short-story collections that address the Italian-American experience.

Her first collection of short stories, Mother Rocket, won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and was a finalist for the 1993 Los Angeles Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.
 

Awards: O'Connor (2002)
 
Novels
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Collections
   Mother Rocket (1993)
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Books containing stories by Rita Ciresi
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Growing Up (2021)
Stories About Adolescence from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
edited by
Ethan Laughman

Awards
2002 Flannery O'Connor Prize for Short Fiction : Mother Rocket



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