Grace Cavalieri

www.gracecavalieri.com

Grace Cavalieri is the author of several books and 21 produced plays. She has authored two produced operas. Her recent book of poems, Water on the Sun, was listed on Pen American Center's "Best Books 2006" and won the Bordighera Poetry Award. She's produced The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress on public radio, now in its 31st consecutive year, and was awarded the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Silver Medal. Programs are on the web: http://www.loc.gov/poetry/poetpoem.html. Her book, What I Would do For Love (Poems in the Voice of Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759-1797), is the basis for her new play, Hyena in Petticoats. That play had its first reading at the New York City Public Library. Among production awards, her play Quilting the Sun had a reading at the Smithsonian and received the key to the city of Greenville, SC in 2007. She is the Book Review Editor for The Montserrat Review, a poetry columnist for MiPOradio, http://www.miporadio.net/GRACE_CAVALIERI/index.html, and host of the American Association of University Women's cable show. Her new book is Anna Nicole: Poems. Grace is married to the sculptor Kenneth Flynn and they have four grown daughters. Her website is www.gracecavalieri.com.