Daniela Gioseffi was born on 1941 and is a poet, novelist and performer who won the American Book Award in 1990 for Women on War; International Writings from Antiquity to the Present.
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14 Facts About Daniela Gioseffi
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Daniela Gioseffi's has published 16 books of poetry and prose and won a PEN American Center's Short Fiction prize, and The John Ciardi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry (2007).
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Daniela Gioseffi was born in 1941 in Orange, New Jersey, the daughter of an Arbereshe Italian immigrant father, Daniel Donato Daniela Gioseffi, one of the first Italian immigrants to win a Phi Beta Kappa in the United States from the alpha chapter of Union College in Schenectady.
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Daniela Gioseffi's grew up in Newark and attended Avon Avenue Public School, later moving to Little Falls, New Jersey, where she attended Passaic Valley High School and served as valedictorian of her graduating class of 1959.
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Daniela Gioseffi attended Montclair University, majoring in English Literature and Speech and Theatre, graduating in 1963.
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Daniela Gioseffi's won a scholarship to study World Drama at the well known Speech and Theatre Department of The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at CUA, Washington, D C Her first novel with Doubleday, Dell, and New English Library, was the feminist comedy The Great American Belly Dance.
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Daniela Gioseffi began her career as a civil rights worker and journalist for WSLA-TV in Selma, Alabama in 1961.
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Daniela Gioseffi graduated from Montclair State University in New Jersey with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English in 1963.
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Daniela Gioseffi's was awarded a scholarship to The Catholic University of America by The National Players, where she completed a Master of Fine Arts in World Drama in 1977.
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Daniela Gioseffi toured in Hamlet and Twelfth Night with The National Players Classical Repertory Theatre for a year.
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Daniela Gioseffi served as Technical Director for that tour and then as Assistant Technical Director at The Arena State, D C The couple had a daughter, singer songwriter, Thea D Kearney, and moved to New York City where Richard became Technical Director and Designer at the Gershwin Theatre, Brooklyn College.
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Daniela Gioseffi won an award from The New York State Council for the Arts, for her feminist poem-plays Care of the Body and The Sea Hag in the Cave of Sleep, in 1971 produced Off Broadway in New York City.
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Subsequently, Daniela Gioseffi edited On Prejudice; A Global Perspective, which was awarded a Plougshares Peace Foundation grant as was her later anthology Women on War.
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Daniela Gioseffi published four more collections of poetry, two novels, and a volume of short fiction, including Blood Autumn: Autunno di sangue, a bilingual edition of new and selected poems.
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