Speakers:
Mary Bonina is the author of MY FATHER’S EYES: A Memoir, two collections of poetry- LIVING PROOF and CLEAR EYE TEA- and the poetry chapbook LUNCH in CHINATOWN. She has an essay- “ Toy Gun and Video Game Play: A Mother’s Lesson” in the spring issue of Adelaide Magazine and poetry in the summer issue of Italian Americana.
Laurette Folk‘s fiction, essays, and poems have been published in upstreet, Literary Mama, pacificREVIEW, Boston Globe Magazine, among others. Her novel, A Portal to Vibrancy, was published by Big Table in June 2014 and won the Independent Press Award for New Adult Fiction. Totem Beasts, her collection of poetry and flash fiction, was published by Big Table in May 2017.
Julia Lisella is the author of two poetry collections: Always (2014) Terrain (2007) and chapbook, Love Song Hiroshima (2004). Her poems have been widely anthologized and have appeared most recently in VIA: Voices in Italian Americana, B O D Y, Nimrod, Alaska Quarterly Review, Antiphon, Ocean State Review and many others. She hosts the IAWA in Boston Literary Series at I AM Books and is a professor of literature and writing at Regis College in Massachusetts.
Jennifer Martelli is the author of The Uncanny Valley and My Tarantella, forthcoming from Bordighera Press. Her work has appeared in Italian Americana, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, The Superstition Review and elsewhere. She is a recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant for Poetry and a poetry editor for The Mom Egg Review.
Carla Panciera has published two collections of poetry: One of the Cimalores (Cider Press) and No Day, No Dusk, No Love (Bordighera). Her collection of short stories, Bewildered, received AWP’s 2013 Grace Paley Short Fiction Award.
IDEA Boston is an Italian-inspired festival celebrating authors, books and culture, and organized by independent bookstore I AM Books, situated in Boston's North End neighborhood.
