Daniela Gioseffi is an American Book Award winning author of eleven books of poetry and prose. Her first, Eggs in the Lake (BOA Editions: Rochester, NY.) won a New York State Council for the Arts grant award in poetry. She has also had a NYSCA grant for performance poetry and reads widely throughout the USA and Europe, often appearing on NPR or WNYC as well as other radio and TV stations. Her second and third collections, Word Wounds and Water Flowers, and Going On were published by VIA Folios/Bordighera Purdue U., and her latest 2002, Symbiosis, is from Rattapallax, NY. She has received excellent reviews for her poetry in varied venues and from accomplished poets from different schools of poetry. An independent voice on the literary scene for many years, her work appeared The Paris Review, Chelsea, Antaeus, The Nation, Priarie Schooner, The Cortland Review, and Poetry East among many magazines. Her interviews with well known poets are also widely published. Her American Book Award winning anthology WOMEN ON WAR: International Writings was reissued in an all new edition by The Feminist Press, NY, 2003 and has been met with exemplary reviews from BookList, Library Journal and The New York Times. Daniela edits www.PoetsUSA.com and publishes literary criticism in varied venues, i.e. Hungry Mind Review, Poet Lore, American Book Review, Rain Taxi, The Philadelphia Inquirer, etc. Her verse was inscribed in marble alongside that of William Carlos Williams and Walt Whitman on the wall of the 7th Avenue Concourse of PENN Station, 2002. Her anthology of world literature, ON PREJUDICE; A Global Perspective, from Anchor/Doubleday, NY, 1993, received a World Peace Award at The United Nations from The Ploughshares Foundation. She is the author of a novel from Doubleday The Great American Belly, optioned for a screen play by Warner Bros, and, a collection of stories, In Bed with the Exotic Enemy, containing work which received the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. She has published several translations of Latin American poets. Many of her translations of world literature are published in WOMEN ON WAR, 2003, from The Feminist Press. She publishes and edits http://www.PoetsUSA.com where more of her work can be found.