October 13, 2008

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Ann M. DeVenezia

Dr. Ann M. DeVenezia, a poet, is a former high school English teacher. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the College of Saint Elizabeth. Her graduate degrees are a Master of Letters in Humanities and a Doctor of Letters in Russian Studies from Drew University. She is the recipient of the Michael Ellis Award for her thesis “Dostoevsky’s Debt to Dickens” and a Dodge Grant for a study of the interrelationship of the arts. She has traveled extensively in Europe, Russia, and China.

Her first book, Grave Rubbings: New and Selected Poems (2004),an award winner in the poetry category of the 13th annual Writer´s Digest International Self-Published Book Awards, was published on her seventieth birthday. Her second collection is Riding My Tricycle: Poetry of Dreams and Visions (2006). Her third book, Telling Abuse: New Poems (2008), reveals diverse types of abuse.

Her work appears in Asphodel, Caduceus, Connecticut River Review, Goldfinch, Gradiva, Italian Americana, Lips, Off the Coast, Paterson Literary Review, Poet Lore, Rattle, Red River Review, Spindrift,Stray Dog, and Tar River Poetry, among others. Her article about her family and Madison, New Jersey, “Rose City Roots and Blooms,” was published in The Italian Tribune.

She is the featured poet for the Winter 2008 issue of Italian Americana. She is a member of The Academy of American Poets, The International Women´s Writing Guild, and The Morning Muses of Women Who Write, Inc. She and her husband Richard reside in northern New Jersey.