1. Paola Jo Corso is an American fiction writer, poet, photographer and literary activist.
16 Facts About Paola Corso
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Paola Corso's books are set in the Pittsburgh area, where her Southern Italian immigrant family members worked in the steel mills.
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Paola Corso's themes include ethnicity, the working class, social change, and magical leaps.
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Paola Corso has 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.
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Paola Corso 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.
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Paola Corso is co-founder and resident artist of Steppin Stanzas and a member of the Park Slope Windsor Terrace Artists Collective.
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Formerly a writer-in-residence in Western Connecticut State University's MFA Program in Creative and Professional Writing, Paola Corso has been a lecturer in Chatham University's MFA Program in Creative Writing.
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Paola 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.
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Paola Corso graduated from Boston College with her BA in Sociology.
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Paola Corso 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.
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Paola Corso was a resident writer for the National Endowment for the Arts WritersCorps in the Bronx where she introduced literary arts in hospitals and senior centers.
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Paola Corso co-founded the National Writers Union New York Local's Community Writing Project and led writing workshops in a Manhattan shelter for single mothers.
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Paola Corso co-curated the reading series, WORDsprouts at the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn and founded Writers in the Wall, a creative writing workshop and reading series in the Pittsburgh river town of Aspinwall.
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Paola Corso is a member of the Park Slope Windsor Terrace Artists Collective.
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Paola Corso is the daughter of Vincenza Marie Calderone and Mario Procopio Corso.
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Paola Corso is married to Michael Winks; the couple has two sons.