Adele's Bio

Adele Annesi is an award-winning writer, editor and teacher. Her autofiction novel What She Takes Away (Bordighera Press, 2023) was named a Small Press Distribution bestseller, and she is co-author of Now What? The Creative Writer's Guide to Success After the MFA. 

An arts fellowship coordinator for Trinity Presbyterian in Mt. Kisco, NY, and a founder of the Ridgefield Writers Conference and the Muse & Music evening cabaret series, Adele is a former development editor for Scholastic Publishing. Her articles, columns, reviews and stories have appeared in 34^th Parallel, Authors Publish Magazine, Dawntreader, Feile-Festa, Fresh Ink, Fringe Blog, Hamline University’s Lit Link, Hotmetalpress, Jane Friedman’s Blog, Midway Journal, Miranda Literary Magazine, Orca, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Pyramid, The Ridgefield Press, Tertulia Magazine, Trillium Literary Journal, Washington Independent Review of Books and Southern Literary Review, where she was managing editor.

Adele’s work has been anthologized for Chatter House Press and Fairfield University, where she received an MFA in creative writing. Her essay on Italian citizenship is among the Clarion Award-winning Essays About Life Transitions by Women Writers, and she received the Editor's Choice award from the National Library of Poetry. Adele’s sudden fiction has been adapted for the stage, and she has served as poetry and short story judge for the Danbury Cultural Commission. Adele has taught for Westport Writers’ Workshop, The Meetinghouse and the Ridgefield Library, and led a scene development workshop for Manhattanville College.

Adele is a member of AWP, the Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association, the Connecticut Film and TV Alliance, the Cultural Alliance of Western Connecticut, Historical Novel Society, Italian American Writers Association, National Organization of Italian Americans in Film & Television, National Organization of Italian-American Women and Ridgefield Historical Society.

Adele also serves as a screener for the Ridgefield Independent Film Festival and a columnist for The Authority and Book Marketing Matters. Her podcast is Adele Annesi on Writing, and her long-running blog for writers is Word for Words. Her website is Adele Annesi.