Kathy Curto is the author of Not for Nothing-Glimpses into a Jersey Girlhood (Bordighera Press). Her work has been featured several times on NPR, in the essay collection, Listen to Your Mother: What She Said Then, What We’re Saying Now, and in The New York Times, Barrelhouse, La Voce di New York, Drift, Talking Writing, Junk, The Inquisitive Eater, The Asbury Park Press, VIA-Voices in Italian Americana, Ovunque Siamo and Lumina. She teaches at The Writing Institute and Montclair State University and has been the recipient of the Kathryn Gurfein Writing Fellowship and the Montclair State University Engaged Teaching Fellowship. She serves on the faculty of the Joe Papaleo Writers’ Workshop in Cetara, Italy. Curto lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband and their four children.
