Boston College (BA) San Francisco State University (MPA) City College of New York (MA)
Occupations
Poet
fiction writer
essayist
Notable work
The Laundress Catches Her Breath, Catina's Haircut
Awards
New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellow
Paola Jo (PJ) Corso (May 28, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American fiction writer, poet, photographer and literary activist. Corso is a New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellow,[1] Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award Winner,[citation needed], and included on the Pennsylvania Center for the Book's Literary Map. She is the author of eight books of fiction and poetry, including 'Vertical Bridges: Poems and Photographs of City Steps,' (2020) with original photos by the author and archival photographs from the University of Pittsburgh Library; Catina's Haircut: A Novel in Stories (2010) on Library Journal’s notable list of first novels;[2]Giovanna's 86 Circles And Other Stories (2005), a Binghamton University's John Gardner Fiction Book Award Finalist;[3] a book of poems, Death by Renaissance (2004), and award-winning poetry collections, The Laundress Catches Her Breath,[4] winner of the Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing; and Once I Was Told the Air Was Not for Breathing (2012),[5] about Pittsburgh steelworkers and garment workers in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and winner of a Triangle Fire Memorial Association Award.
Her books are set in the Pittsburgh area, where her Southern Italian immigrant family members worked in the steel mills. Her themes include ethnicity, the working class, social change, and magical leaps. Corso has also written poetry books about growing up near a toxic dump that was on the EPA's Superfund List, the city's history of water and air pollution, and the link between cancer and a polluted environment in the workplace. She co-edited an anthology, Politics of Water: A Confluence of Women's Voices and wrote an introductory personal essay on the subject of industrial pollution.
Corso is co-founder and resident artist of Steppin Stanzas and a member of the Park Slope Windsor Terrace Artists Collective. Formerly a writer-in-residence in Western Connecticut State University’s MFA Program in Creative and Professional Writing,[6] Corso has also been a lecturer in Chatham University's MFA Program in Creative Writing.[7] She splits her time between Pittsburgh and New York City where she is on the faculty of the Languages and Literature Department at Touro College.
^New York Foundation for the Arts, Artists' Fellowship - Poetry, Paola Corso Archived 2013-04-15 at archive.today, 2003.
^Library Journal's First Novels: Fall Firsts, 2010.
^Past Winners, Paola Corso Archived 2012-04-13 at the Wayback Machine, 2010.
^Corso, Paola. The Laundress Catches Her Breath, CavanKerry Press, 2012.
^Corso, Paola. Once I Was Told the Air Was Not For Breathing Archived 2013-04-08 at archive.today, Parallel Press, 2012.
^Western Connecticut State University's MFA Program in Creative and Professional Writing.
^Chatham University's MFA Creative Writing and Staff, Paola Corso.
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