Author: The Making of an Anthology

Admired and best-selling authors offer advice and discuss their latest books. Please join us for this special edition of our Author series featuring Kathy Curto, editor of What Are You Waiting For?: An Anthology, with contributors Terri Linton and Christopher L. Vaughan, as well as anthology editor and author Domenica Ruta. Kathy Curto is the author of Not for Nothing: Glimpses into a Jersey Girlhood. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, on NPR, and in the anthologies And There Were Red Geraniums Everywhere and Listen to Your Mother: What She Said Then, What We’re Saying Now. She has also published widely in a variety of literary journals and magazines. She is co-founder of Key to the Castle Workshop and serves on the board of the Italian American Writers Association. Kathy lives with her family in the Hudson Valley. Terri Linton is a writer, educator, workshop curator, and mom to her beloved son. Her writing has been published in the anthology We Got This: Solo Mom Stories of Grit, Heart, and Humor; Catapult Magazine; Zibby Mag; Mother Mag; and other online sites. She was a 2021 awardee of the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grant for nonfiction writing. Terri is currently at work on her memoir. Domenica Ruta is a fiction writer and memoirist from Massachusetts. Her first novel, Last Day (Speigal & Grau/Penguin Random House, 2019), was named one of the “100 Notable Books of the Year” by The New York Times. Domenica Ruta’s short fiction has been published in Boston Review, Indiana Review, and Epoch. Her essays have appeared in Ninth Letter, New York Magazine and elsewhere. Christopher L. Vaughan is a freelance writer who covers disability and parenthood. He recently finished writing his first memoir and has been in the media industry for more than a decade. His work has appeared in The New York Times and USA Today. He lives in Tarrytown, NY, with his son Noah and wife Lisa. Hosted by Ilana Levine, actress and podcaster, Little Known Facts with Ilana Levine.