Anne Calcagno –Dual Citizen

“Calcagno’s creative paper explores being a Chicagoan living the absence of the overarching presence of churches in Italy, everpresent churches that were refuge and mystery. She will report on her struggles with some of the complications inherent in representing Catholicism in fiction (i.e: searching for verity from flawed characters). She will read a brief excerpt of a scene from her novel-in-progress STRUCK BY DINA, revealing the writer’s struggle.

Anne Calcagno is a dual national, who has written for the Italian paper la Repubblica, and has been anthologized in such Italian-American anthologies as; The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture, The Penguin Book of Italian-American Writing; Don’t Tell Mama!, and Reconstructing Italians in Chicago; Thirty Authors in Search of Roots and Branches.