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

Vittoria repetto

Vittoria repetto identifies herself as the hardest working guinea butch dyke poet on NYC’s lower east side. She has been published in Mudfish, Voices in Italian Americana, The Paterson Literary Review, Italian Americana, Rattle, Lips, Unsettling American: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry, Hey Paesan! Writing by Lesbians & Gay Men of Italian Descent, Curaggia: Writing by Women of Italian Descent, The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food And Culture and Harrington Lesbian Fiction Quarterly, among others. She has a poetry chapbook entitled Head for the Van Wyck.

Her poems have been chosen as "Editor's Choice" for the 2003 & 2004 editions of the Paterson Literary Review

Her first short story “The Morning Prayer” was published in Best Lesbian Love Stories 2003 by Alyson Publications.

Vittoria repetto is the vice president of the Italian American Writers Association, the editor of the IAWA newsletter and the person behind the IAWA email at iawanewsletter@aol.com. And she has been hosting the Women’s Poetry Jam at Bluestockings Bookstore since June 2000.

Guernica Editions will publish her first poetry book Not Just A Personal Ad in Winter 2005/Spring 2006.