Edvige Giunta was born and raised in Sicily, Italy. In 1984, she moved to the United States to study literature at the University of Miami. She is the author of Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors (Palgrave 2002). Collaboration, community-building, and supporting the work of other writers has been central in her work as a writer, editor, and educator. She has coedited six anthologies, including The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture (The Feminist Press, 2002) and Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (New Village Press, 2022), winner of the 2023 Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in Feminist Studies in American and Popular Culture. Talking to the Girls will be published in Italian translation by Iacobelli. Most recently her work has appeared in December Magazine, Pithead Chapel, Paris Lit Up, and Words Without Borders She has completed a book-length memoir, No Confetti for the Dead and is at work on a manuscript of flash nonfiction.