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Maria Lisella Maria Lisella has been a reporter whose work has appeared in Travel & Leisure, Diversion, Journeys, The New York Daily News, the Newark Star Ledger, Fra Noi and Italian American Review. Her poetry has appeared in Vivace, Curaggia: Writings by Women of Italian Descent, the Performance Poets Association’s Literary Magazine and in the Paterson Literary Review. She won first place for a group of poems in the Mid-Island JCC 2002 Adult Poetry Contest, Honorable Mention in the Allen Ginsburg Poetry Award, Honorable Mention for her non-fiction memoir from the Canadian Italian Writers Association and Honorable Mention for an essay in the Anne and Henry Paolucci Awards for Italian American Writing in 2003. She currently writes for Recommend magazine and contributes to the New York Times and Travel & Leisure. |