C. Delia Scarpitti is a freelance writer, book reviewer, editor, and teacher of writing and literature. Her poetry, fiction, essays, interviews, and reviews have appeared in a variety of online and print publications, including: Mothering Magazine, SageWoman Magazine, Literary Mama Magazine, Mamazine, Mom Writer's Literary Magazine, the Apple Valley Review, and Natural Family Magazine, where she served as Book Reviews editor from 2005 until the magazine's recent hiatus. Delia was named Editor of the Columns Department for Literary Mama Magazine in late-2007. Any writers interested in submitting proposals for a column for the magazine should review the Literary Mama submissions page and email: lmcolumns (at) literarymama (dot) com.
Delia holds bachelor's degrees in English Education and Women's Studies, providing a background in literature, creative writing, technical writing, pedagogy, gender politics, sociology, cultural psychology, and feminism. In addition, she studied poetry at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA in 2001 and creative writing in Taos, NM with renowned writing teacher, Natalie Goldberg, during a year-long series from 2004-2005. She has taught writing and literature at the college level since 2000 and has been a facilitator for a variety of workshops and organizations.
Delia is currently at work on a novel, Migration Summer, the story of a family of four torn apart by secrets and silences. The book unfolds over the course of a summer of migration, where the echoes of the past reverberate into the characters' lives, shattering their carefully maintained facades and exposing the hidden backdrop of their family. In 2008, she was awarded an Emerging Artist Fellowship in Fiction from her home state for support in the completion of Migration Summer. She is also at work on an anthology project called Survived By: Siblings of the Lost. Delia lives with her family in a little white house with a tree swing in the front yard, where she writes, dreams of poetry, and runs her blog, Left-Handed Trees and Other Lies: Writing from the Roots.