Grace Cavalieri is the author of several books, chapbooks of poetry; and 26 staged plays. She's written texts for two produced operas. She founded "The Poet and the Poem" on public radio, and now produces the series from the Library of Congress, in its 36th year on-air. Grace's community work on radio holds the CPB Silver Medal. Her book Anna Nicole:Poems (Goss 183:: Casa Menendez) holds The 2009 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence. Her 2004 book What I Would Do For Love: Poems in the Voice of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) won a Paterson Poetry Prize. This book has been trans;ated into Italian by poet Sabine Pascarelli, "Cosa Farei per Amore." (2013, Bunny and Crocodile Press.) Grace's book "Water on the Sun" won the Bordighera Poetry Award in 2006. It is in Italian and English within one volume. Her play based on this book, "Hyena in Petticoats," received its premiere reading at NYC Public Library, 2007. Her play "Quilting the Sun" was presented at the Smithsonian in 2005, and received its world premiere production, 2007, Centre Stage, S.C. It received a key to the city of Greensville for the play's depiction of ex-slave quiltmaker Harriet Powers. Cavalieri's last collection of poems, Water on the Sun (2006) won the Bordighera Poetry Award and was listed on Pen Center's Best Books of 2006 List. Grace is a poetry columnist for MiPOradio and has a monthly poetry feature as book reviewer in Washington Independent Review of Books. "The Poet's Cookbook; Recipes from Tuscany" 2009,is from Bordighera Press. "The Poet's Cookbook: Recipes from Germany" was published in 2010(Goethe-Institut.) "Millie's Sunshine Tiki Villas' is a book lengh novella in verse (2011.) A new chapbook, "Gotta Go Now" was issued 2012(Casa Menendez.) Grace holds the inaugural Columbia Award for service to poetry, the National Working Women Commission's Award,The Pen-Fiction Award, the DC Poet Laureate Award for Poetry,plus others.