Paola Corso ( May 28 , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ) is an American fiction writer , poet , and essayist . Corso is a New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellow and Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award Winner , and is the author of '' Catina ’s Haircut : A Novel in Stories '' ( 2010 ) on Library Journal ’s notable list of first novels , '' Giovanna ’s 86 Circles And Other Stories '' ( 2005 ) , a Binghamton University 's John Gardner Fiction Book Award Finalist , a book of poems , '' Death by Renaissance '' ( 2004 ) , and newly released poetry collections , '' The Laundress Catches Her Breath '' and '' Once I Was Told the Air Was Not for Breathing '' ( 2012 ) , about Pittsburgh steelworkers and garment workers in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
Paola Corso