:en:Grace Andreacchi

Grace Andreacchi was born in New York City and grew up in the Inwood{{Cite web |date=2008-03-18 |title=Grace Andreacchi |url=https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/grace_andreacchi |access-date=2024-04-06 |website=Poets & Writers |language=en}} section of Manhattan.{{Cite web |title=Another Country |url=https://graceandreacchi.blogspot.com/2021/06/another-country.html |access-date=2024-04-02 |language=en-GB}} She was educated at the Academy of Mount St. Ursula High School,{{Cite web |date=2008-03-18 |title=Grace Andreacchi |url=https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/grace_andreacchi |access-date=2024-04-06 |website=Poets & Writers |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=SNAKESKIN: The Poetry Webzine |url=https://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/188sturs.html |access-date=2024-04-02 |website=www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk}} and went on to study theatre at the Stella Adler{{Cite web |date=2008-03-18 |title=Grace Andreacchi |url=https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/grace_andreacchi |access-date=2024-04-06 |website=Poets & Writers |language=en}} Studio. A brief period on the stage was followed by the study of philosophy,{{Cite web |date=2008-03-18 |title=Grace Andreacchi |url=https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/grace_andreacchi |access-date=2024-04-06 |website=Poets & Writers |language=en}} first at Hunter College (New York City), and then at Binghamton University (Binghamton, New York). In her final year she received a fellowship to study at Bedford College, London. Since 1989 Andreacchi has lived in Europe, moving first to Paris,{{Cite web |title=An American Writer in Paris |url=https://graceandreacchi.blogspot.com/2008/04/american-writer-in-paris.html |access-date=2024-04-02 |language=en-GB}} then rural Normandy, and later to Berlin{{Cite web |title=John le Carré - Sie Verlassen den Amerikanischen Sektor |url=https://graceandreacchi.blogspot.com/2024/04/john-le-carre-sie-verlassen-den.html |access-date=2024-04-02 |language=en-GB}} (1994–1998) and London,{{Cite web |last=Phillips |first=Jo |date=2013-05-08 |title=Grace Andreacchi |url=https://centmagazine.co.uk/grace-andreacchi/ |access-date=2024-04-02 |website=Cent Magazine |language=en-GB}} where she now lives. In 2008 she founded Andromache Books,{{Cite web |last=Shoes |first=Agnieszkas |date=2010-06-24 |title=The Man Who Painted Agnieszka's Shoes: Andromache: A little Corner of Excellence |url=http://agnieszkasshoes.blogspot.com/2010/06/andromache-little-corner-of-excellence.html |access-date=2024-04-02 |website=The Man Who Painted Agnieszka's Shoes}} a writers' cooperative, to publish literary fiction and poetry.

Her first work was the play Vegetable Medley (1985, Soho Repertory Theater, New York and Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts), an experimental work fusing elements of comedy and melodrama in a highly poeticised language. Her first novel, Give My Heart Ease (1989), received the New American Writing Award and was translated into Slovenian as Pomiri mi srce. Admired by some critics, others found its frank depiction of an abusive sexual relationship disturbing.Kirkus Reviews, 1989 and Publishers Weekly, 1989

Her 1993 novel, Music for Glass Orchestra, garnered much critical acclaim for its wildly beautiful, surrealistic style.Review of Contemporary Fiction, June 1993The Sunday Times, September 12, 1993 Set in Paris, it contains a wide-ranging discourse on the music of J.S. Bach, with special attention to the Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin. Her first collection of poetry, Elysian Sonnets and Other Poems (1990) was published as a chapbook in Paris.Beyond Baroque Chapbook Archive [http://www.beyondbaroque.org/archive/index.htm].

In 1995 Andreacchi was a collaborator in the project Violin Music in the Age of Shopping, a work by avant-garde composer and violinist Jon Rose. For her contribution Andreacchi was made an Honorary Fellow of the Rosenberg Foundation (Sydney, Australia).The Rosenberg Archive [http://www.rainerlinz.net/rosenberg-archive/index.html].

The novel Scarabocchio (1995), an architecturally adventurous ‘inverted fugue’, is based on Goethe’s Italian Journey, and continues the discussion of Bach through the character of ‘Barton Beale’, a lightly fictionalized Glenn Gould.{{Cite web |title=scarabocchio1 |url=http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/scarabocchio1.html |access-date=2024-04-02 |website=www.kissthewitch.co.uk}} The short novel Poetry and Fear (2001) is set in the Berlin opera world, and uses the myth of Orpheus to explore themes of love and loss. Later works showed an increased emphasis on Christian spiritual themes. A continued interest in the culture of the far east is reflected in Two Brothers (2007), a version of the Korean pansori tale Heungbu and Nolbu. Recent work has shown a turning away from Christianity towards an avowedly feminist point of view.{{cite web | url=https://graceandreacchi.blogspot.com/2017/11/maxim-gorky-and-grandmothers-god.html | title=Maxim Gorky and Grandmother's God }}{{cite web | url=https://graceandreacchi.blogspot.com/2018/09/literary-mothers.html | title=Literary Mothers }} Her semi-autobiographical novel You Are There Behind My Eyelids Forever , a coming of age story with feminist and erotic content, is set in the Inwood of her childhood.

• Give My Heart Ease {{ISBN|0-932966-90-X}} (1989)
• Music for Glass Orchestra {{ISBN|1-85242-299-8}} (1993)
• The Prodigy {{ISBN|978-1-4452-0980-7}} (1994, first complete print edition 2009)
• Scarabocchio {{ISBN|978-1-4092-3643-6}} (2008)
• Poetry and Fear {{ISBN|978-1-4092-3642-9}} (2008)
• You Are There Behind My Eyelids Forever {{ISBN|978-0-244-52504-0}} (2021)

• Vegetable Medley (1985)
• Raphael and Tobias (1994)
• Two Brothers {{ISBN|978-1-4092-3672-6}} (2007)
• Agnes in Dappled Things 2008
• Lawrence in Dappled Things 2008
• Two Martyr Plays {{ISBN|978-1-4092-3768-6}} (contains both Agnes and Lawrence) (2009)
• Raphael and Tobias {{ISBN|978-1-4461-3340-8}}, ebook version {{ISBN|978-1-4461-2880-0}}. 2010

• The Golden Dolphins (The Carolina Quarterly 1991)
• The Black Swan (1994)
• Violin Music in the Age of Shopping -The Judy Papers (Editors Jon Rose and Rainer Linz) {{ISBN|0-646-18105-X}},(NMA Publications, 1994)
• Golden Vanities, Stories, Tales and Occasional Pieces (2018) {{ISBN|978-0-244-10691-1}}, (Andromache Books, 2018)

• Elysian Sonnets and Other Poems (The Paris Press 1990)
• Songs for a Mad Queen (2000)
• Two Hands Clapping (with artist Alexandra Rozenman) {{ISBN|978-1-4092-9978-3}} (2009)
• Berlin Elegies {{ISBN|978-1-4452-1640-9}}, ebook {{ISBN|978-1-4461-2878-7}} (2010)
• Little Poems for Children {{ISBN|978-1-4457-6338-5}} (2010)
• Ten Poems for the End of Time {{ISBN|978-1-326-49489-6}} (2015)
• Beauty Has a Thousand Faces: Selected Poems {{ISBN|978-1-4466-2893-5}}, ebook {{ISBN|978-1-4478-1026-1}} (2024)
• Thelonious Magpie: A Book of Found Poems {{ISBN|978-1-4461-5202-7}}, ebook {{ISBN|978-1-4461-2505-2}} (2024)
• Worm Bug Feather: One Hundred Very Short Poems {{ISBN|978-1-4461-5968-2}}, ebook {{ISBN|978-1-4461-7833-1}} (2024)

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• [http://www.graceandreacchi.com Grace Andreacchi's website]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20080302153844/http://www.authortrek.com/grace-andreacchi-interview.html An interview with Grace Andreachi] on Authortrek
• {{LibraryThing author|andreacchigrace}}
• [http://www.pw.org/content/grace_andreacchi Grace Andreacchi] on Poets & Writers

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