Bios:                  
  Robert Viscusi
  James Periconi
  Vittoria repetto
  Fred Gardaphé 
  George Guida
  Joann Sicoli
  Jeanne Dickey
  Gil Fagiani
  Maria Lisella

George Guida

George Guida is an incorporating officer of IAWA, and co-edits its monthly newsletter, as well as the newsletter of the American Italian Historical Association.

His publications include The Peasant and the Pen (Lang, 2003), essays on Italian American narrative; and Low Italian (Bordighera, 2006), poems; as well as other poems, stories, and essays in Inkwell, The Paterson Literary Review, Poetry New York, PMLA, MELUS, The Journal of Popular Culture, Italian Americana, Voices in Italian Americana, and other journals and collections. He has just completed two new collections of poems*New York and Other Lovers and I Laugh at Death*and is currently working on a novel.

Guida is Associate Professor of English at CUNY’s New York City College of Technology and Adjunct Lecturer in Italian American and immigration studies at SUNY-Stony Brook. An frequent reader and performer of his work, he co-founded and co-hosts the Intercollegiate Poetry Slam at the Bowery Poetry Club.