Susan Scutti’s collection of poems – The Commute -- is forthcoming from Paper Kite Press.

Her chapbook, We Are Related, was published in 2008 (Three Rooms Press) while Linear Arts Press published her short story collection, The Renaissance Began with a Muted Shade of Green. Her poetry has appeared in many journals and anthologies including The Outlaw of American Poetry and Aloud Voices from Nuyorican Poets Cafe, The New York Quarterly, The Paterson Literary Review, and many other journals and zines. She has independently published her first two novels, Second Generation and A Kind of Sleep. Weekly poems from Scutti appear on her blog, http://octoberbabies.wordpress.com. She is an alumni of Yale University and the City University of New York.
    Pauline M. Spatafora’s Dear Sister, published by Reed and Quill Press, is based on letters written by her mother to her aunt in Sicily during World War II with a focus on Anna, the young woman who embarks on a journey based on the epistolary exchange. The Italian translation by Lea Brunetti is forthcoming from Reed and Quill Press in 2012.
    Spatafora is a longtime faculty member of the English Department at La Guardia Community College who has designed and taught specialized programs in communication skills, speech, accent correction, and workshops for healthcare professionals. Her extensive experience in the corporate world, communications, and theater underscores her positions as a founder and partner of the Adult Learning Center, Inc., and president of P. S. Communications. She has written has written two other books: Proper Pronunciation Made Easy, The Absent Mother-A Psycho Literary Study of Virginia Woolf.
    Spatafora currently serves as the Recording Secretary of the Italian American Faculty and Staff Advisory Council of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute and is a member of the National Organization of Italian American Women or NOIAW.
    The reading takes place Saturday, March 12, 2011, 5:45 p.m. to 7:45 p.m., at the Cornelia St. Café, 29 Cornelia Street, NYC, (212-989-9319); www.corneliastreetcafe.com. The evening starts with Open Mic readings of five minutes each. IAWA is a 501(3)©not-for-profit corporation. Since 1991, the organization has given voice to writers through its Open Reading series at Cornelia St. Café every month. For membership information, visit www.iawa.net