HELEN BAROLINI has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts writing grant, and an American Book Award for The Dream Book: an Anthology of Italian American Women Writers. The Italian edition of her novel Umbertina was the recipient of a literary prize in Italy, the Premio Acerbi, in 2008. She is the author of twelve published books, two unpublished novels, and many short stories and essays that have appeared in literary journals, anthologies and several annual editions of Best American Essays. Her most recent books are a collection of memoir-essays, A Circular Journey, and Their Other Side: Six American Women and the Lure of Italy, biographical profiles. Helen Barolini was married to the late Italian author and journalist Antonio Barolini whose work she translated into English, and has three daughters; she lived in Italy for some years and her work has often centered on Italy and her own Italian American background. She now lives and works in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, PEN/American Center, and the Authors Guild.

49. About the Feminist Press

The Feminist Press is an independent, nonprofit literary publisher that promotes freedom of expression and social justice. Founded in 1970, we began as a crucial publishing component of second wave feminism, reprinting feminist classics by writers such as Zora Neale Hurston and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and providing much-needed texts for the developing field of women’s studies with books by Barbara Ehrenreich and Grace Paley. We publish feminist literature from around the world, by best-selling authors such as Shahrnush Parsipur, Ruth Kluger, and Ama Ata Aidoo; and North American writers of diverse race and class experience, such as Paule Marshall and Rahna Reiko Rizzuto. We have become the vanguard for books on contemporary feminist issues of equality and gender identity, with authors as various as Anita Hill, Justin Vivian Bond, and Ann Jones. We seek out innovative, often surprising books that tell a different story.

See our complete list of books at feministpress.org, and join the Friends of FP to receive all our books at a great discount.

50. Also Available from the Feminist Press

ALSO AVAILABLE FROM THE FEMINIST PRESS

Under the Rose

Flavia Alaya

ISBN: 9781558612709

Beneath its “scandalous” surface, Flavia Alaya’s life story goes to the heart of women’s struggles for independence, self-definition, and sexual agency. When she first met Father Harry Browne, Alaya was a vibrant but sheltered young woman on a Fulbright scholarship in Italy. When the attraction that began in a cafe in Perugia became too compelling to resist, they embarked upon a love affair that violated the deepest taboos of society, the Church, and her Italian American family, yet endured for over two decades, through years of shared dedication to social activism and through the birth of three children.