IA LITERATI Saturday June 14 Casa Italia

IA LITERATI   Saturday June 14 Casa Italia

A Celebration of Italian American Authors from the Chicago Area  

Seminar Format---Works in Progress---Tales of Marketing

 Book Sales, Signings, Raffles, Give Aways!  Library orientation! WE SUPPORT ITALIAN AMERICAN WRITERS---you should too! Network Network Network.... Bring your checkbook and credit card---100s of titles from our presenters and from the library......call 708 345 5933 to reserve your place or  Register on our Casa Italia Web Site 

June 14 at Casa Italia--

Florentine Room

9:30am........coffee, rolls  book sales !0 am Start

The key to success of IA Literati is networking---We writers, especially the ones who are on the program this year, can make the May 18 a big success if they each acted as if it were their own private event.  Spread the

 word with email, fb, twitter, word of mouth. 

                   
IA LITERATI

A Celebration of Italian American Authors from the Chicago Area  

 Book Sales, Signings, Raffles, Give Aways!  Library orientation! WE SUPPORT ITALIAN AMERICAN WRITERS---you should too! Network Network Network.... Bring your checkbook and credit card---100s of titles from our presenters and from the library......call 708 345 5933 to reserve your place. Wanna do a short presentation about YOUR writing?  Or sell your book at the event?  Call Dominic Candeloro at 847-951-9109----We can probably squeeze you in.

Carolyn Alessio is the recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Pushcart Prize in fiction. She is the editor of a  bilingual collection of Guatemalan children's poetry, "Las Voces de la Esperanza/The Voices of Faith."  Her  novel manuscript, El Favorito, is a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction."

Theresa Amato---Public advocate,   author, Fra Noi columnist, Impresa Award recipient, and two-time national presidential campaign manager, Theresa Amato is the author of Grand Illusion, the Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny (New Press, NY).  Amato, a graduate of Harvard University and NYU Law, has been a Fellow at both Harvard’s Law School and Institute of Politics, and is the exec director/founder of Citizen Works & Citizen Advocacy Center.

Dominic Candeloro is Co-editor of Casa Italia's latest publication, Italian Women in Chicago: Madonna Mia!  QUI debbo vivere?  

Arthur Cola, Author of Tales based on legends and history.

Family friendly novels: Papa and the Leprechaun King, The Shamrock Crown, Stolen Christmas (A tale of the power of Christmas love set in present day "Little Italy" of Chicago.  Adult novels: The Stone Cutter Genius: A tale set against the life of Michelangelo in which the legend of the Magi Ring said to hold supernatural powers is sought.  The Brooch: The lives of six sons become intertwined in a tale of love and revenge as they try to bring a message of love lost for 500 years to the world.Coming in Summer 2014: Journey of Three Pure Hearts. Book One of The Doonagore Theft Trilogy.

Check out his books at: Legendary Tales of Arthur Cola - Home 

Maria Scagliotta DiMarco was born in Italy and lives in the United States. She has a degree in Education from Italy and in Social Work, with minors in Psychology and Spanish, from the USA. She has taught Italian at Triton College, River Grove, Illinois, and privately, for years. In September 2007 she has founded the Italian Club “I Ciceroni” which meets monthly for the preservation and practice of the Italian language and culture. In her free time she loves to write short stories and to translate writings to and from Italian.  E-mail her at: romawest11@gmail.com

Vincent L. Inserra, a first generation Italian, was born and raised in the Boston area. He served as a Navy Fighter pilot during World War II and achieved the rank of Lieutenant. He graduated from Boston College with a degree in Business Administration. In 1951, he joined the FBI as a Special Agent and served for 25 years. In 1957, he was as- signed to Organized Crime matters for 19 years combatting the Chicago Crime Syndicate. He was in charge of the C-1 Organized Crime Squad for a period of 13 years where they compiled an im- pressive record of convictions agains the Chicago mob. He received over 100 personal letters of commendation from the Director of the FBI for outstanding investigative achievements. Following retirement from the FBI, he became Corporate Security Director for Kemper Insurance in Long Grove, Illinois for 27 years. 

 Robert "Mickey" Lombardo

is a Professor in Criminal Justice and Sociology at Loyola University Chicago. His new book on organized crime in Chicago is a dispassionate look at the rise and fall of "The Outfit."  He and Vincent Inserra will have a lot to talk about!  Also watch Lombardo's interview with Carol Marin on "Chicago Tonight."

http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2013/01/03/uncovering-roots-organized-crime-chicago 

Ann Rubino is the author of "La Forestiere" in Italian Women in Chicago and Peppino, Buon’ Com’ il Pane, an intermediate-grade novel of World War II in Italy. 

While Ann was teaching professionally, she won the OHAUS Award for innovations in science teaching; took part in the creation of the New Generation Science Standards; sat on the review board of Science & Children magazine; and worked as a consultant for the Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago. She holds her MT(ASCP), B.A.Ed., and M.S. Ed. and an Endorsement in Gifted Education. Her last teaching assignment was as adjunct at Lewis University, training future teachers in methods of science teaching. Once retired, she reviewed many children’s books for the Recommends division of Science & Children and continued her work on the review board.