Edvige Giunta is the author of Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors, and coeditor of several anthologies, including The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture, Embroidered Stories: Interpreting Women’s Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora, and Personal Effects: Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo. She has recently completed a book-length memoir, “No Confetti for the Dead” and is working on a coedited anthology on the Triangle fire. She is Professor of English at New Jersey City University.
