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About the author
Alessandra Gelmi, whose first short story was accepted by The North American Review and published in Buffalo Spree, is the author of the prize-winning novel Who's Afraid of Red, a chronicle of love set against the Rwandan genocide, hailed by Joel Siegel of "Good Morning America" as "brilliant" and by Desmond Tutu as "historically important". This small independently produced novel won 4 national awards, (one open to all unversity presses) and was published worldwide. Alessandra is an accredited senior journalist and current correspondent for The Epoch Times in Washington D.C. Her interest in journalism stems from her college days when her father, a surgeon, operated on Ferdinand Marcos. Alesssandra asked to meet the former president of the Philippines and published the interview in The Dartmouth, the oldest college newspaper in America. Gelmi's long-awaited first narrative poetry collection, "Ring of Fire, Selected Poems 1972-2008", was published internationally in 2009 and won first place from the National Federation of Press Women. Her published poems are archived in special collections at Bowdoin College, Boston University, Barnard College, Columbia University and Dartmouth College (where she studied with Richard Eberhart and reviewed Alexander Laing’s poetry collection Brandt Point for The Dartmouth). Alessandra Gelmi is a board member for the Honorable Michael Feighan Collection curated at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson Library. She was Director of Communications for the Army Navy Club in Washington, D.C. in 1998, is a Friend of the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development in The Dominican Republic, a Graduate of the Landmark Forum, and a former Bread Loaf Scholar. She was named Leslie Fay Woman of the Year and concomitantly voted "One of the Most Beautiul Women in America" featured in "Vogue", "Harpers Bazaar", "Cosmopolitan" and "Working Woman". She is the daughter of June Villarreal-- a Lady Commander of The Holy Sepulchre, a linguist, and former speechwriter for Egyptian foreign minister Fawzi-- and is the great great grand-daugther of the last Milanese consul of Czar Nicolas II. Alessandra Gelmi is profiled in Who’s Who in American Women, Who’s Who in America, and Who’s Who in the World, the chronicle of human achievement since 1899. She is a founding member of Ave Maria University, a member of WETA's Presidents' Club, and a trustee of The Notre Dame Institute of Catechetics. She is available for lectures, readings, and symposia. Update:2012 Alessandra Gelmi recently interviewed the new Foreign Minister of Italy, Guilio Terzi di Sant'Agata, for The Epoch Times (Print and Web Editions) and concomitantly was invited to speak at the home of the President of the Dartmouth Club of Washington D.C. for Dartmouth alumni. Gelmi's ficiton was published in "Amazing Graces An Anthlology of Washington Women Fiction Writers" published by Paycock Press ( a NY Times Editor's Choice publisher) Launch party was held at Politics and Prose in the nation's capital. Her work was recently included in Gargoyle 57, an international literary review. She is an Honor Roll member of the Dartmouth College fund for 2011. 
She was awarded a teaching fellowship from Boston University, where she received her master’s degree and taught creative writing under the aegis of three Nobel Laureates. Her literary awards include the Irene Leache Memorial Prize and the Amy Loveman Competition (open to Columbia University). A former member of The White House Correspondents’ Association, Alessandra has written for dozens of magazines, international literary and academic journals, and covered philanthropy, culture, and the arts for three national daily newspapers. She has interviewed personalities from Stallone to Coretta Scott King. Her original plays "He and She" and "Falling Stars" were performed at The Source Theater Festival and The National Theater in Washington, D.C. In 2003 Alessandra was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in literature. |
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