Nina Romano

Nina Romano earned an M.A. from Adelphi University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Florida International University. She lived in Rome, Italy, for twenty years where many of her poems and stories are set. Romano. She has taught English and Literature as an adjunct professor at St. Thomas University, and has interned for Marie Howe, Denise Duhamel, and C. K. Williams at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. Romano has facilitated writing workshops at Ft. Lauderdale Main Library, the Sanibel Island Writers Conference, Florida Gulf Coast University and Baltimore.

Her prose and poetry appear in The Rome Daily American, The Chrysalis Reader, Whiskey Island, Gulf Stream Magazine, Grain, Voices in Italian Americana, Vox, Chiron Review, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, and numerous other reviews. Excerpts from her novel-in-progress, The Secret Language of Women, appear in Dimsum: Asia's Literary Journal and Southern Women's Review.

Romano is the author of two poetry collections: Cooking Lessons by Rock Press, submitted for a Pulitzer Prize, and Coffeehouse Meditations, from Kitsune Books. She has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. She is co-author of Writing in a Changing World. She is the poetry editor for Bridle Path Press.

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