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Kathy Curto

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Toms River, The United States

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Kathy Curto teaches at The Writing Institute and Montclair State University. She is the author of Not for Nothing-Glimpses into a Jersey Girlhood, published by Bordighera Press. Her work has been featured several times on NPR, in the essay collection, Listen to Your Mother: What She Said Then, What We’re Saying Now, and in The New York Times, Barrelhouse, La Voce di New York, Drift, Talking Writing, Junk, The Inquisitive Eater, The Asbury Park Press, VIA-Voices in Italian Americana, Ovunque Siamo and Lumina. She has been the recipient of the Kathryn Gurfein Writing Fellowship, the Montclair State University Engaged Teaching Fellowship and also serves on the faculty of the Joe Papaleo Writers’ Workshop in Cetara, Italy. Kathy lives in the Hu ...more

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	Listen to Your Mother: What She Said Then, What We're Saying Now by Ann Imig (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lea Grover (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Lisa Allen (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.84 avg rating — 330 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not for Nothing: Glimpses into a Jersey Girlhood 4.40 avg rating — 62 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	650 \| What We Ate: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Lupini Beans by Edward McCann (Goodreads Author), Margarita Meyendorff (Goodreads Author), Kathy Curto (Goodreads Author) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not for Nothing: Glimpses into a Jersey Girlhood it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dig If You Will the Picture: Writers Reflect on Prince by Sheila Squillante (Goodreads Author) (Editor & Contributor), E. Kristin Anderson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), William Bradley (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	650 \| Love and Marriage: True Stories of Dating, Dancing, and Daring by Edward McCann (Goodreads Author), Margarita Meyendorff (Goodreads Author), Joseph Burgo it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	And there were red geraniums everywhere: Women’s voices of the Italian diaspora in North America by Annie Rachele Lanzillotto (Goodreads Author), Michela Valmori (editor), Valentina Di Cesare (editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	AND THERE WERE RED GERANIUMS EVERYWHERE: Women’s voices of the Italian diaspora in North America by Valentina Di Cesare, Emanuele Pettener (preface), Ilaria Serra (preface) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thoughts of Home: True Stories of Leaving, Longing, and Rediscovery by Edward McCann (Goodreads Author), Judith Linville, Kathy Curto (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Time & Money: True Stories of Craving, Saving, and Misbehaving by Edward McCann (Goodreads Author), Charlotte Adamis (Contributor), Kathy Curto (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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