KATHY CURTO teaches at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College and at Montclair State University and also serves on the faculty of the Joe Papaleo Writers’ Workshop in Cetara, Italy. She is the author of Not for Nothing: Glimpses into a Jersey Girlhood (2018). Her work has been featured in the essay collection, Listen to Your Mother: What She Said Then, What We’re Saying Now, and in The New York Times, Barrelhouse, La Voce di New York, Drift, Talking Writing, Junk, The Inquisitive Eater, The Asbury Park Press, VIA-Voices in Italian Americana, Ovunque Siamo and Lumina. She received the Kathryn Gurfein Writing Fellowship and the Montclair State University Engaged Teaching Fellowship.