Nina Romano

Nina Romano earned an M.A. from Adelphi University and an M. F. A. in Creative Writing from Florida International University.
 
Her short fiction, memoir, reviews and poetry appear in The Rome Daily American; The Chrysalis Reader; Whiskey Island; Gulf Stream Magazine; Grain; Voices in Italian Americana; Vox; Chiron Review; The Salt Lake City Weekly; Rough Writer's Ink; Mangrove Review; Irrepressible Appetites; Roads Literary Magazine; Night Train; A Little Poetry; ExPatLit, GULFSTREAM!NG; Grey Sparrow Journal; The Northville Review; and will soon appear in the Bosphorous Art Project Quarterly and Strong Verse.  

Excerpts from her novel-in-progress, The Secret Language of Women, appear in Dimsum: Asia's Literary Journal, Southern Women's Review and Driftwood.

Romano's debut poetry collection, Cooking Lessons, was published in June, 2007 by Rock Press, and submitted for a Pulitzer Prize. Her new collection, Coffeehouse Meditations, is forthcoming from Kitsune Books.

Learn more about Nina Romano and her books at http://www.ninaromano.com/ or www.screwiowa.com.