Rosanna Staffa

Rosanna Staffa is an Italian born playwright and author. Her novel, The War Ends At Four will be published by Regal House Publishing in 2023. Most recently her work was selected for inclusion in the Anthology of Best Short Fiction 2021. She is a prize winner of the 2020 TSR Nonfiction Prize and recipient of Honorable Mention for The Tiferet Journal 2019 Writing Contest Award. Her plays have been seen on stages in Tokyo, New York, Seattle, and others. ‘The Innocence of Ghosts’ was seen in New York Off-Broadway and was filmed for inclusion in the Lincoln Center Theatre on Film Library. Her plays are published by Heinemann and Smith & Kraus. She is a recipient of a McKnight Advancement Grant, a Jerome Fellowship, and an AT&T/On Stage Grant. She is a Hedgebrook Writers Retreat alumni, a  Ph.D. in Modern Foreign Languages from Statale University in Milan, an MFA in Fiction from Spading University’s School of Creative and Professional Writing, and a Loft member.