Adele Annesi

Adele Annesi is an award-winning writer, editor, teacher. Her five-star novel is What She Takes Away (Bordighera Press). Adele co-authored Now What? The Creative Writer's Guide to Success After the MFA.

A former Scholastic development editor, Adele has published with 34th Parallel, Hotmetalpress, Jane Friedman’s Blog, Midway Journal, Miranda Literary Magazine, Orca, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Washington Independent Review of Books, Southern Literary Review, where she was managing editor. Her work was anthologized for Chatter House Press and Fairfield University, where she received an MFA. Her Italian citizenship essay is among the Clarion Award-winning Essays About Life Transitions by Women Writers; she received the National Library of Poetry’ Editor's Choice award.

Adele's sudden fiction has been adapted for the stage. She has taught for Westport Writers’ Workshop and Manhattanville College.

Adele is on the board of WestConn’s White Oak Film Festival. Memberships include CT Film & TV Alliance, Italian American Writers Association, National Organization of Italian Americans in Film & TV.

Adele's blog is Word for Words. Her podcast is Adele Annesi on Writing.