Daniela Gioseffi

Daniela Gioseffi (born 1941) is an American poet, novelist and performer who won the American Book Award in 1990 for Women on War; International Writings from Antiquity to the Present (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1988). She 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).

Early life Gioseffi was born in 1941 in Orange, New Jersey, the daughter of an Italian-Albanian immigrant father, Daniel Donato Gioseffi, one of the first Italian immigrants to win a Phi Beta Kappa in the United States

Gioseffi attended Montclair University, majoring in English Literature and Speech and Theatre, graduating in 1963.

Gioseffi has lived the rest of her writing life in Brooklyn Heights, New York City, where she created the First Brooklyn Bridge Poetry Walk – now produced by Poets House every year as a spring fund raiser.

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. Before retiring from teaching Gioseffi taught at Brooklyn College, Pace University, New York University's Publishing Institute, and The Manhattan's College of Visual Arts, and received a Lifetime Achievement Award in Education from The Association of Italian American Educators in 2003. Gioseffi is the editor of Eco-Poetry.org and PoetsUSA.com.

In the early 1990s, she moved to Byram Township, New Jersey. Her work is etched in marble on a wall of the 7th Avenue Concourse of New York City's Pennsylvania Station, with verses by Walt Whitman and William Carlos Williams among other poets.

Published & produced works Care of the Body, and The Sea Hag in the Cave of Sleep, 1971 The Sea Hag in the Cave of Sleep The Brooklyn Bridge Poetry Walk, 1971 The Great American Belly..., 1977 (Doubleday: NY, New English Library, London.) Eggs in the Lake; Poems, 1977 (Boa Editions; Rochester, NY.) Earth Dancing; Mother Nature’s Oldest Rite, non-fiction treatise 1980 (Stackpole Books, PA.) Women on War: International Writings for the Nuclear Age, ed., 1988 (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster: NY.) Guide to Northwest Jersey Wildlife: Flora and Fauna, 1994,(Skylands Association, NJ.) Word Wounds and Water Flowers; Poems, (Bordighera Press, Purdue University, 1995.) In Bed with the Exotic Enemy: Stories & Novella, 1995 (Avisson Bks., Greensboro: NC.) Going On, Poems, 2000 (Rattapallax Press: New York, NY) Women on War: International Writings from Antiquity to the Present, 2003, (Feminist Press, Graduate Center of the City University of New York.) Blood Autumn: Autunno di sangue, New & Selected Poems, 2006 (VIA Folios, Bordighera Press, John D. Calandra Institute, Graduate Center, City University of New York.) Emily Dickinson: Lover of Science and Scientist in Dark Days of the Republic, essay, Chelsea Literary Review, Number 81, New York City. Wild Nights, Wild Nights: The Story of Emily Dickinson's Master Figure: "Neighbor and Friend and Bridegroom," A Biographical Novel, 2010, Plain View Press Pioneering Italian American Culture: Escaping la vita della cucina, VIA Folios, Essays & Interviews by & about Daniela Gioseffi, edited with an Introduction by Angelina Oberdan. 2013 Bordighera Press: Calandra Inst. Queens College City U. NY. Author and Activist: The Daniela Gioseffi Story, A Biographical Documentary, Produced & Directed by Anton Evangelista