Maria Giura's guest appearances

Maria Giura

Meatball and Spaghetti Artist Podcast 

Vita Poetica Journal

Let’s Talk Memoir

James Owens

Sean Sexton

Emily Wright

Ed Meek

Jonathan Chan

Susan Delaney

Anthony Tamburri

Marianne Leone

Allison Scola

Laurie Klein

Jennifer Martelli

Annie Lanzillotto

Jeff Burt

Anne Moses

Kathy Curto

OwlTail

Maria Giura joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about which stories define us, avoiding the self-pity trap, the importance of allowing the reader to make decisions about the characters in our memoir for themselves, how we frame childhood and family dynamics, writing about the very early versions of ourselves after we’ve changed so much, and what challenges she faced writing Celibate in which she explores her relationship with the priest she fell in love with and how that experience helped her discover the life she wanted to live. Also in this episode: -shutting out the voices that tell you not to share your story -gaining the perspective our narratives need -how The Church and her faith guide her  Books mentioned in this episode: The Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann Beard Limbo by A. Manette Ansay The Art of Slow Writing by Louise DeSalvo   Maria Giura is the author of Celibate: A Memoir, which won a First Place Independent Press Award, and What My Father Taught Me, which was a Paterson Poetry Book Prize finalist. Her writing has appeared, or is forthcoming, in several journals including New York Quarterly, Prime Number, Vita Poetica, Presence, Italian Americana, Lips, and Tiferet. An Academy of American Poets winner, Giura has taught writing at multiple universities including Binghamton University where she received her PhD in English. She currently teaches memoir workshops for Casa Belvedere Cultural Foundation. Follow her on Instagram @marigiurawrites, on Fb and at mariagiura.com   Connect with Maria: Website: mariagiura.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mariagiurawrites/ Facebook:: facebook.com/maria.giura.3975/ Courses:  casa-belvedere.org/product/virtual-writing-workshop-writing-your-memories-gifts-given-and-received/ Purchase Maria’s book, Celibate: amazon.com/gp/product/1627202145?pf_rd_r=CQE6RA5DTDTWKAJ82YT9&amp;pf_rd_p=edaba0ee-c2fe-4124-9f5d-b31d6b1bfbee barnesandnoble.com/w/celibate-maria-giura/1131505200?ean=9781627202145 shop.aer.io/apprenticehouse/p/Celibate_A_Memoir/9781627202145-4208?collection=/0 bookshop.org/books/celibate-a-memoir/9781627202145   – Ronit Plank is a writer, teacher, and editor whose work has been featured in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Writer’s Digest, The Rumpus, American Literary Review, Hippocampus, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named a 2021 Best True Crime Book by Book Riot and was a Finalist in the National Indie Excellence Awards, the Housatonic Book Awards, and the Book of the Year Awards. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, the Best of the Net, and the Best Microfiction Anthology, and her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts’ Eludia Award. She is creative nonfiction editor at The Citron Review and lives in Seattle with her family where she is working on her next book.   More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com   More about WHEN SHE COMES BACK: https://ronitplank.com/when-she-comes-back/ More about HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE: https://ronitplank.com/home-is-a-made-up-place/   Connect with Ronit: https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/ https://twitter.com/RonitPlank https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank   Background photo: Canva Headshot photo credit: Sarah Anne Photography Theme music: Isaac Joel, Dead Moll’s Fingers

Maria Giura joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about which stories define us, avoiding the self-pity trap, the importance of allowing the reader to make decisions about the characters in our memoir for themselves, how we frame childhood and family dynamics, writing about the very early versions of ourselves after we’ve changed so much, and what challenges she faced writing Celibate in which she explores her relationship with the priest she fell in love with and how that experience helped her discover the life she wanted to live. Also in this episode: -shutting out the voices that tell you not to share your story -gaining the perspective our narratives need -how The Church and her faith guide her  Books mentioned in this episode: The Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann Beard Limbo by A. Manette Ansay The Art of Slow Writing by Louise DeSalvo Maria Giura is the author of Celibate: A Memoir, which won a First Place Independent Press Award, and What My Father Taught Me, which was a Paterson Poetry Book Prize finalist. Her writing has appeared, or is forthcoming, in several journals including New York Quarterly, Prime Number, Vita Poetica, Presence, Italian Americana, Lips, and Tiferet. An Academy of American Poets winner, Giura has taught writing at multiple universities including Binghamton University where she received her PhD in English. She currently teaches memoir workshops for Casa Belvedere Cultural Foundation. Follow her on Instagram @marigiurawrites, on Fb and at <a href="http://mariagiura.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mariagiura.com</a> Connect with Maria: Website: <a href="http://mariagiura.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mariagiura.com</a> Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mariagiurawrites/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/mariagiurawrites/</a> Facebook:: <a href="http://facebook.com/maria.giura.3975/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">facebook.com/maria.giura.3975/</a> Courses:  <a href="http://casa-belvedere.org/product/virtual-writing-workshop-writing-your-memories-gifts-given-and-received/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">casa-belvedere.org/product/virtual-writing-workshop-writing-your-memories-gifts-given-and-received/</a> Purchase Maria’s book, Celibate: <a href="http://amazon.com/gp/product/1627202145?pf_rd_r=CQE6RA5DTDTWKAJ82YT9&amp;pf_rd_p=edaba0ee-c2fe-4124-9f5d-b31d6b1bfbee" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">amazon.com/gp/product/1627202145?pf_rd_r=CQE6RA5DTDTWKAJ82YT9&amp;pf_rd_p=edaba0ee-c2fe-4124-9f5d-b31d6b1bfbee</a> <a href="http://barnesandnoble.com/w/celibate-maria-giura/1131505200?ean=9781627202145" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">barnesandnoble.com/w/celibate-maria-giura/1131505200?ean=9781627202145</a> <a href="http://shop.aer.io/apprenticehouse/p/Celibate_A_Memoir/9781627202145-4208?collection=/0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">shop.aer.io/apprenticehouse/p/Celibate_A_Memoir/9781627202145-4208?collection=/0</a> <a href="http://bookshop.org/books/celibate-a-memoir/9781627202145" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bookshop.org/books/celibate-a-memoir/9781627202145</a> – Ronit Plank is a writer, teacher, and editor whose work has been featured in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Writer’s Digest, The Rumpus, American Literary Review, Hippocampus, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named a 2021 Best True Crime Book by Book Riot and was a Finalist in the National Indie Excellence Awards, the Housatonic Book Awards, and the Book of the Year Awards. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, the Best of the Net, and the Best Microfiction Anthology, and her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts’ Eludia Award. She is creative nonfiction editor at The Citron Review and lives in Seattle with her family where she is working on her next book. More about Ronit: <a href="https://ronitplank.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ronitplank.com</a> More about WHEN SHE COMES BACK: <a href="https://ronitplank.com/when-she-comes-back/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ronitplank.com/when-she-comes-back/</a> More about HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE: <a href="https://ronitplank.com/home-is-a-made-up-place/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ronitplank.com/home-is-a-made-up-place/</a> Connect with Ronit: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RonitPlank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/RonitPlank</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank</a> Background photo: Canva Headshot photo credit: Sarah Anne Photography Theme music: Isaac Joel, Dead Moll’s Fingers

Resisting Self-Pity in Memoir featuring Maria Giura

James Owens reads his translation of R. M. Rilke's poem, "Soloist," and Maria Giura reads her poem, "Last Supper." James Owens's newest book is Family Portrait with Scythe (Bottom Dog Press, 2020). His poems and translations appear widely in literary journals, including recent or upcoming publications in The Christian Century, Dappled Things, and Grain. He earned an MFA at the University of Alabama and lives in a small town in northern Ontario. Maria Giura is the author of What My Father Taught Me (Bordighera Press) and Celibate: A Memoir (Apprentice House), which won the 2020 First Place Independent Press Award for Religion Nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in journals including Prime Number, Presence, (Voices) in Italian Americana, Lips, Tiferet, and the Paterson Literary Review. An Academy of American Poets winner, Maria has taught writing at multiple universities, including Binghamton, where she received her PhD in English. Learn more about her at mariagiura.com. Join the conversation! Read the Winter issue, follow us on Instagram and Facebook, and leave us a voice message here on the podcast.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/vita-poetica/message

James Owens reads his translation of R. M. Rilke's poem, "<a href="https://www.vitapoetica.org/poetry/soloist" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Soloist</a>," and Maria Giura reads her poem, "<a href="https://www.vitapoetica.org/poetry/last-supper" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Last Supper</a>." James Owens's newest book is Family Portrait with Scythe (Bottom Dog Press, 2020). His poems and translations appear widely in literary journals, including recent or upcoming publications in The Christian Century, Dappled Things, and Grain. He earned an MFA at the University of Alabama and lives in a small town in northern Ontario. Maria Giura is the author of What My Father Taught Me (Bordighera Press) and Celibate: A Memoir (Apprentice House), which won the 2020 First Place Independent Press Award for Religion Nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in journals including Prime Number, Presence, (Voices) in Italian Americana, Lips, Tiferet, and the Paterson Literary Review. An Academy of American Poets winner, Maria has taught writing at multiple universities, including Binghamton, where she received her PhD in English. Learn more about her at <a href="//www.mariagiura.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mariagiura.com</a>. Join the conversation! Read the <a href="https://www.vitapoetica.org/winter-2022" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Winter issue</a>, follow us on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/vita.poetica/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/vitapoetica" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, and <a href="https://anchor.fm/vita-poetica/message" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">leave us a voice message</a> here on the podcast.--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/vita-poetica/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/vita-poetica/message</a>

Poems by James Owens & Maria Giura

Maria Giura is the author of What My Father Taught Me  (Bordighera Press) and Celibate: A Memoir (Apprentice House), which won a 2020 Independent Press Award and was called “complex and emotionally wrought” by Publisher’s Weekly. Maria’s writing has appeared in several journals including Prime Number, Presence, Italian Americana, Lips, VIA, Ovunque Siamo, and Tiferet. She has won awards from the Academy of American Poets and the Center for Women Writers and was selected to judge the Lauria/ Frasca Poetry Award.  She has taught Literature and Writing at St. John’s University, Montclair State University, and Binghamton University where she earned her doctorate in English.  https://www.mariagiura.com/

Maria Giura is the author of What My Father Taught Me  (Bordighera Press) and Celibate: A Memoir (Apprentice House), which won a 2020 Independent Press Award and was called “complex and emotionally wrought” by Publisher’s Weekly. Maria’s writing has appeared in several journals including Prime Number, Presence, Italian Americana, Lips, VIA, Ovunque Siamo, and Tiferet. She has won awards from the Academy of American Poets and the Center for Women Writers and was selected to judge the Lauria/ Frasca Poetry Award.  She has taught Literature and Writing at St. John’s University, Montclair State University, and Binghamton University where she earned her doctorate in English.  <a href="https://www.mariagiura.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.mariagiura.com/</a>

Maria Giura 