July 11, 2015
05:55 pm

IAWA’s Open Reading Series Featuring Caterina Edwards & Fred Misurella

The Italian American Writers Association
29 Cornelia Street
10014 New York, NY
United States

Since 1991, IAWA has given voice to writers through its literary series every second Saturday of the month. IAWA East is held even months at Sidewalk Café and IAWA West continues at Cornelia Street Café on odd months. For membership renewal, visit IAWA's revamped website @ iawa.net where you will also find our monthly Newsletter.

Canadian-based Caterina Edwards' newest novel and sixth book, The Sicilian Wife, was published in April, 2015.  Her nonfiction book, Finding Rosa : A Mother With Alzheimer’s/A Daughter's Search for the Past, a collection of stories, The Island of the Nightingales and several personal essays won major awards, while another novel, a play, and two novellas also received praise and critical attention.  Her work is the subject of Edwards: Essays on Her Works, a collection by critics from Canada, the United States, and Italy, was the first book published by Guernica in its series on Canadian writers. In all her writing, Edwards explores the collision of multiple selves and cultures, private memory and public history, here and there. She is a long-term member of the Association of Italian Canadian Writers.www.caterinaedwards.com