Adele Annesi is an award-winning writer, editor and teacher. Her new novel is What She Takes Away (Bordighera Press, May 2023), and she is co-author of Now What? The Creative Writer's Guide to Success After the MFA. A founder of the Ridgefield Writers Conference and the Muse & Music series, a book editor for Word for Words, and a former development editor for Scholastic Publishing, Adele has published articles, columns, reviews and stories with 34th Parallel, Authors Publish Magazine, Dawntreader, Feile-Festa, Fresh Ink, Fringe Blog, Hamline University’s Lit Link, Hotmetalpress, Jane Friedman’s Blog, Midway Journal, Miranda Literary Magazine, Orca, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Pyramid, The Ridgefield Press, Washington Independent Review of Books and Southern Literary Review, where she was managing editor. Her work has been anthologized for Chatter House Press and Fairfield University, where she received an MFA in creative writing. Her essay on Italian citizenship is among the Clarion Award-winning Essays About Life Transitions by Women Writers, and she received the Editor's Choice award from the National Library of Poetry. Adele’s sudden fiction has been adapted for the stage, and she has served as poetry and short story judge for the Danbury Cultural Commission. Adele led a scene development workshop for the Manhattanville College MFA in Creative Writing, and she teaches for Westport Writers’ Workshop where she is also an editor and a writing coach. Adele is a member of AWP, Acorn Storiers, the Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association, the Cultural Alliance of Western Connecticut, the Historical Novel Society, the Italian American Writers Association and the Ridgefield Historical Society. She has also served as a screener for the Ridgefield Independent Film Festival and is a columnist for The Authority and Book Marketing Matters. Adele’s long-running blog for writers is Word for Words. Her website is AdeleAnnesi.