Diana Cavallo

Anna (A Monologue)
Juniper Street Sketches (Excerpt from a Novel)

DIANA CAVALLO’S first novel, A Bridge of Leaves, explores the fragility of relationships and the quest for a more enduring identity.  It was originally published by Atheneum in the U.S., republished by Guernica Editions in Canada, and sections have appeared in the anthologies The Dream Book (Schocken Press) and Don’t Tell Mama (Penguin Books).  Her non-fiction book, The Lower East Side:  A Portrait in Time, published by Macmillan, contrasts the historical past and present of that seminal immigrant neighborhood and examines the recurring theme of change, replete with documentary prints and photographs.  Sections of a second novel, Juniper Street Sketches, have appeared in the anthologies From the Margin (Purdue University Press), The Voices We Carry (Guernica Editions), and in the Summer Fiction magazine section of The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Now retired, Diana Cavallo taught fiction and non-fiction writing at the University of Pennsylvania for 18 years, was a Fulbright Teaching Fellow at the University of Pisa, Italy, returning there as a Special Lecturer, and appeared as a featured speaker on classical American writers, and reader of her own work for the United States Information Service at various universities throughout Italy.