Annie Rachele Lanzillotto

Annie Rachele Lanzillotto’s present memoir essay, “The Wallmakers / I Muratori” is a chapter in her current book manuscript, “Whaddyacall the Wind? / Comesichiama il Vento?” Lanzillotto’s books include the double flip book: Hard Candy: Caregiving, Mourning, and Stage Light; and Pitch Roll Yaw, (2013 Guernica World Editions), L is for Lion: an italian bronx butch freedom memoir (2013 SUNY Press; finalist for LAMBDA Literary Award), and Schistsong (2013 Bordighera Press.) Author, poet, performance-artist, actor, director, songwriter, activist, cantastoria, Lanzillotto has performed in 100’s of performances and internationally at Napoli Città Libro Festival. In 2020, while sheltering-in-place alone, she embarked on a solo Decameron, with a nod to Boccaccio, to tell one hundred original stories, in her podcast: "Annie's Story Cave." Her albums include: Blue Pill; Never Argue with a Jackass; Swampjuice: Yankee with a Southern Peasant Soul. She is the Artistic Director of Street Cry Inc. For more info: www.annielanzillotto.com, www.StreetCryInc.org

Special thanks during this memoir writing process to: Pat Zumhagen, KGB Bar, Audrey Kindred, Gabriella Belfiglio, Joanna Clapps Herman, Lucia Mudd, Cassandra Casella, Maria Serena Carella, Bruno of Bar 314, and especially all my cugini in the paese.