Joanna Clapps Herman has published poetry, fiction, memoirs and essays. Her latest publication is her memoir, The Anarchist Bastard: Growing Up Italian In America (SUNY Albany Press, March 2011) She is co-editor of Wild Dreams: The Best of Italian Americana (Fordham University Press, 2008), as well as co-editor of Our Roots Are Deep With Passion (Other Press, 2007). She was also Guest Editor of the Fall 2006 edition of Creative Nonfiction: Italian and Italian American Writers. Her essay, “My Homer” (in Oral History, Oral Culture,and Italian Americans, Ed. Luisa Del Giudice, Palgrave, October 2009) relates the mores of an active Southern Italian American community to the pagan concepts lived by ancient Athenians and demonstrable in the Odyssey and the Iliad. Joanna is represented in The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing: Don’t Tell Mama, ed. Regina Barreca, 2002) by “The Discourse of un Propria Paparone.” Other essays are in far-reaching venues. Her fiction has appeared in the Massachussets Review, Inkwell, The Crescent Review and elsewhere. Her story, “Perfect Hatred” won the Bruno Arcudi Prize, and her “Falling” the Henry Paoloucci prize. Among others, she has spoken at Harvard and The Tenement Museum repeatedly. The Litchfield Review awarded her their medal for Literary Excellence. She teaches at The City College (CUNY) Center for Worker Education and is on the Graduate Writing Faculty of Manhattanville College.