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.
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
Blue Italian (1996)
Pink Slip (1998)
Sometimes I Dream in Italian (2000)
Remind Me Again Why I Married You (2003)
Pink Slip (1998)
Sometimes I Dream in Italian (2000)
Remind Me Again Why I Married You (2003)
Collections
Books containing stories by Rita Ciresi
Growing Up (2021)
Stories About Adolescence from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
edited by
Ethan Laughman
Awards
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