Christine Palamidessi Moore

Christine Palamidessi Moore (born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an Italian-American writer and novelist.

Life

She graduated from Boston University with a Master of Arts from the Creative Writing Department where she studied with Leslie Epstein, Sue Miller and Richard Elman. She taught writing at the University from 1993 to 2000.

Her work appeared in Andy Warhol’s Interview, New Woman Magazine, New Video Magazine, Saturday Evening Post, New York Times, Boston Globe, Italian Americana, Aethlon, Stone's Throw. Her memoir, Grandmothers, won a Boston MBTA Monument Award and was engraved on a granite monolith displayed at Jackson Square on Boston's Orange Line.

Her novel, The Virgin Knows, is set in Boston's Italian neighborhood, the North End.

She has been a Senior Editor at Italian Americana since 2000.

Works

• The Virgin Knows,. St. Martin's. 1993. ISBN 0-312-13203-4. 
• The Fiddle Case. Gate. 2010. 
• American Woman, Italian Style with editor Carol Bonomo Albright. 

Anthologies

• Carol Bonomo Albright, Joanna Clapps Herman, eds. (2008). "Card Palace". Wild Dreams: The Best of Italian Americana. Fordham Univ Press. ISBN 978-0-8232-2910-9.  CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
• Regina Barreca, ed. (2002). Don't Tell Mama: The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-200247-6. 
• Carol Bonomo Albright and Joanna Clapps Herman, ed. (2006). Our Roots Are Deep with Passion: creative nonfiction collects essays by Italian Americans. Other Press. ISBN 978-1-59051-242-5.