Annamaria Ferramosca

Annamaria Ferramosca was born in Puglia and lives in Rome, where she worked as a biologist, teacher, and researcher, while also serving for several years as a specialist collaborator in Italian Literature at Roma Tre University. She has actively contributed creative and critical works to various national and international magazines as well as prominent Italian online poetry platforms. She conceived and for many years curated the “Poesia Condivisa” column on the poesia2punto0 portal, and she serves as the ambassador for Italy and Puglia for the Sound Poetry Library (a global map of poetic voices).

As an accomplished poet, her published poetry collections include Andare per salti (Arcipelago Itaca; winner of the Arcipelago Itaca Award, shortlisted for the Elio Pagliarani Award, and finalist for the Guido Gozzano and Europa in Versi awards); Other Signs, Other Circles – Selected Poems 1990-2008, a selected anthology edited by Anamaría Crowe Serrano and Riccardo Duranti for Chelsea Editions in New York as part of the Contemporary Italian Poets Translated series (Città di Cattolica Award); Curve di livello (Marsilio; winner of the Astrolabio Award and finalist for the Camaiore, LericiPea, Giovanni Pascoli, and Lorenzo Montano awards); Trittici – Il segno e la parola (DotcomPress); Ciclica (La Vita Felice); Paso Doble (Empiria), co-authored with Irish poet Anamaria Crowe Serrano; La Poesia Anima Mundi (puntoacapo), a monograph curated by Gianmario Lucini containing the collection Canti della prossimità; Porte/Doors (Edizioni del Leone; International Forum-Den Haag Award); and Il versante vero (Fermenti; Aldo Contini Bonacossi First Work Award). In addition, she curated the Italian poetic translation of Romanian poet Gheorghe Vidican’s anthology 3D-Poesie 2003-2013 (Romanian Academy Translation Prize). Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and collective volumes, and have been translated into English, Romanian, Greek, French, German, Spanish, Albanian, and Arabic. A comprehensive bibliographic overview along with critical reviews can be found on her personal website www.annamariaferramosca.it.