Adele M. Annesi - Biography

Biography

Writer and editor Adele M. Annesi, Ridgefield Cultural Festival, CT

Adele Annesi is an award-winning editor and writer. Formerly a development editor for Scholastic Publishing, Adele is currently a book editor specializing in business, culture and memoir.

As a press correspondent and writer, Adele covers the arts, culture, events and people, as well as writing topics and travel.

Her short fiction and creative nonfiction appear in various literary magazines, including 34th Parallel, The Fairfield Review, Hotmetalpress, Marco Polo Quarterly, Midway Journal, Miranda Magazine, The Pittsburg Quarterly, Tertulia Magazine and Trillium Literary Journal.

She has contributed to The Circle and the Italian-American literary journal Pyramid, and her short fiction appeared in an anthology for Fairfield University, where she is studying for a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing. Her "After the Sunflowers" essay is part of Press Pause Moments: Essays About Life Transitions by Women Writers.

Adele presents pieces for Barnes and Noble and the Ridgefield Writers Guild, and as part of the Ridgefield Writes 300th Anniversary Program of the Ridgefield Library. She received the editor's choice award from Poetic Voices in America, and teaches the innovative Art of Editing in Writing workshops.

A member of Who's Who in America, she is also a member of American Christian Fiction Writers, the Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, the Freelance Writing Organization International, the Housatonic Valley Cultural Alliance, the International Federation of Journalists and Pen American, as well as the Ridgefield Writers Guild and Wellspring Writer's Workshop.

Adele is currently at work on a novel and a series of short stories set on Italy. Visit her award-winning editing blog for writers, Word for Words. Her workshop of the month appears on the Online Workshop page.