Christine Palamidessi Moore (born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an Italian-American writer and novelist.

Life

She graduated from Boston University with a Master of Arts from the Creative Writing Department where she studied with Leslie Epstein, Sue Miller and Richard Elman. She taught writing at the University from 1993 to 2000.[1]

Her work appeared in Andy Warhol's Interview, New Woman Magazine, New Video Magazine, Saturday Evening Post, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Italian Americana, Aethlon and Stone's Throw. Her memoir, Grandmothers, won a Boston MBTA Monument Award and was engraved on a granite monolith displayed at Jackson Square on Boston's Orange Line.[2][3]

Her novel, The Virgin Knows, is set in Boston's Italian neighborhood, the North End.[4]

She has been a Senior Editor at Italian Americana since 2000.[5]

Works

  • The Virgin Knows. St. Martin's. 1993. ISBN 0-312-13203-4.
  • The Fiddle Case. Gate. 2010. ISBN 9780982638316.
  • Albright, Carol Bonomo; Moore, Christine Palamidessi (2011). American Woman, Italian Style with editor Carol Bonomo Albright. Fordham University Press. ISBN 9780823231768.

Anthologies

Sources

  1. Moore, Christine Palamidessi – Writers Directory 2006, 2005-01-01
  2. "Grandmothers. Writing on the Line". Nuweb.neu.edu. Archived from the original on 2011-04-11. Retrieved 2011-02-28.
  3. Carlock, Marty (2009-12-07). A guide to public art in Greater ... - Google Books. Harvard Common Press. ISBN 9781558320628. Retrieved 2011-02-28.
  4. "An Annotated Bibliography of Fiction Set in Boston (working draft)". Webcas.cas.suffolk.edu. Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2011-02-28.
  5. "Our Editors". Italianamericana.com. Archived from the original on 2011-04-10. Retrieved 2011-02-28.
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