Anna Monardo

{{short description|American novelist}}

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| native_name_lang = English

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| birth_name = Anna Mondardo

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1956}}

| birth_place = Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.

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| occupation = Novelist, professor

| language = English

| education = Saint Mary's College (BA)
Columbia University (MFA)

| period = 20th century, 21st century

| genre = Fiction, Poetry

| subject = Italian-American culture

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| notableworks = Falling In Love with Natassia, The Courtyard of Dreams

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| children = Leo

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| awards = *Clare Woolrich Fellowship

• 2004 and 2012 Nebraska Arts Council Fellowships for Creative Non-Fiction in Literature
• Residency Fellowships from the Djerassi Foundation, the Corporation of Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
• 2013 Award for Distinguished Research and Creative Activity
• 2013 Alumni Teaching Award

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| years_active = 1993–present

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| website = {{url | annamonardo.com}}

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Anna Monardo (born 1956) is an American novelist of the Italian-American experience. Originally from Pittsburgh,{{cite web|title=Anna Monardo|url=http://www.pifmagazine.com/2011/11/anna-monardo/|website=pif Magazine|accessdate=31 March 2015}} she graduated from Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana and received her M.F.A. from Columbia University in 1983. She is a professor of the Writer's Workshop at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.