Rita Ciresi

Rita Ciresi is the author of four novels and three short-story collections. Her work has been awarded the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Prize for the Novel; it also has been finalist for the Los Angeles Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and finalist for the Paterson Fiction Prize. Ciresi is professor of English at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Visit her website at www.ritaciresi.com.