Daniela Gioseffi

Who is Daniela Gioseffi?

Daniela Gioseffi is a poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and performer who won the American Book Award in 1990 for Women on War; International Writings from Antiquity to the Present. First published in 1988 during the Cold War, by Touchstone/Simon & Schuster: NY, it was reissued in an all new edition at the dawn of the Iraq War with many women of the Mid-East added, by The Feminist Press of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 2003. It was the first book of world literature to gather the global voices of women on the issues of war effecting their lives. It won the American Book Award in 1990.

Gioseffi is the editor of PoetsUSA.com, which features accomplished, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning poets. Gioseffi was among the first Italian American women writers to be widely published in the main stream of American poetry. She has published fourteen books of poetry and prose and won a PEN American Center's Short Fiction prize 1995, and The John Ciardi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry, 2007.