Daniela Gioseffi, is an American Book Award winning author of 16 books of poetry and prose. She's presented her poetry for NPR and the BBC and appeared twice on the Poet & The Poem radio show of The Library of Congress, N.E.A.  Her verse is etched in marble on a wall of PENN Station NY with that of Walt Whitman. She's won the John Ciardi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry, and the OSIA NY State Literary Award. Her 6th volume of poetry is, Blood Autumn, Autunno di sangue, VIA Folios, Bordighera Press, CUNY, 2007. She founded the National Bordighera Poetry Prize, edits Eco-Poetry.org, PoetsUSA.com and ItalianAmericanWriters.com/ and was a pioneer of The Poets-in-the-Schools program, winning a Partner in Education Award from the NY City Dept. of Ed. She created the First Brooklyn Bridge Poetry Walk in 1971 with a grant from The NY State Council for the Arts from which she received two grants in poetry. Daniela has published three novels, the latest a biographical one on the life of Emily Dickinson with a non-ficton forward upon which the novel is based, titled The Story of Emily Dickinson's Master; Wild Nights! Wild Night!, now available as an e-books at Amazon. She is with the Dickinson's Scholars Registry and has taught a colleges and universities all around the NY City area where she has lived for 45 years, including NYU, Brooklyn College, Pace U., LIU and The School of Visual Arts, English Depts. She has presented her work at all branches of SUNY, as well as on campuses around the country.Her first book of poetry Eggs in he Lake, BOA Editons, 1977, was followed by five others, the latest being Blood Autumn: New & Selected Poems, 2007, VIA Folios at The City U. of NY. Women On War: International Writings (Simon & Schuster, 1988, & The Feminist Press: NY, 2003), and On Prejudice: A Global Perspective (Anchor/ Doubleday, 1993) are two of her major books. She's won grant awards in poetry from the NY State Council for the Arts and several other awards. Daniela is widely published in literary periodcals e.g. The Paris Review, The Nation, Prairie Schooner, Poetry East & in many major press anthologies, e.g. Kaleidoscope: Stories of the American Experience (Oxford U. Press.) She's won a PEN Short Fiction Award for her story, "Daffodil Dollars" which appeared on N.P.R.'s The Sound of Words. Her last teaching was in the Humanities Dept of The School of Visual Arts, and she was a pioneer for Poets-in-the-Schools, Inc. when young. You can find more at http://www.AuthorandActivist.com/ A documentary by that title will preview in fall based on Daniela's life. More info. at www.Gioseffi.com/ See blog->