Name Christine Moore Role Writer | ||
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Books The Virgin Knows, The Fiddle Case | ||
Christine Palamidessi Moore (born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an Italian-American writer and novelist.
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Life
She graduated from Boston University with a Master of Arts from the Creative Writing Department where she studied with Leslie Epstein, Sue Miller and Richard Elman. She taught writing at the University from 1993 to 2000.
Her work appeared in Andy Warhol’s Interview, New Woman Magazine, New Video Magazine, Saturday Evening Post, New York Times, Boston Globe, Italian Americana, Aethlon, Stone's Throw. Her memoir, Grandmothers, won a Boston MBTA Monument Award and was engraved on a granite monolith displayed at Jackson Square on Boston's Orange Line.
Her novel, The Virgin Knows, is set in Boston's Italian neighborhood, the North End.
She has been a Senior Editor at Italian Americana since 2000.