GAYLE RIDINGER (CO-AUTHOR)

Gayle Ridinger was born in the United States in 1957 and graduated from Oberlin College in 1979.  She was a newspaper reporter for two years before moving to Milan, Italy in 1981. Since 1987 she has taught English and translation techniques at an Italian university. For the bilingual anthology, ITALIAN POETRY 1950-1990 (Dante University Press,1996), which she translated and co-edited with Gian Paolo Renello, she received the “National Translation Prize” from the Italian Ministry of Culture in 1997. In 2001, she received a grant from the Raiziss-DePalchi Foundation (Academy of American Poets) in New York to complete her translation of SHAVINGS,  prose poems by Camillo Sbarbaro (Chelsea Editions, New York, 2006). In 2003, she was named Knight of the Star Order of Italian Solidarity (Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella della Solidarità Italiana) by Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. Her children’s book, A STAR AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, was published in 2001 in Italian (Edizioni Arka), and subsequently in Greek, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, and English (Gareth Stevens-USA). Her novel THE SHADOW WIFE, a tale of  twin sisters who find strange ways of ‘helping’ each other, is available on Amazon.

            Gayle enjoys traveling with Paolo!