Faculty Spotlight
Dianna Cannizzo
Assistant Director
Dianna Marie Cannizzo writes memoir, flash non-fiction and essays. A bilingual public speaker, Dianna has twenty years of experience working with disabled people, and has a background in clinical psychology. Her work is informed by her presentations on intergenerational war trauma. Her writings have appeared in Consequence Forum, War Literature and the Arts and the University of Udine’s Le Simplegadi. An excerpt from her memoir The Red Purses was a San Francisco Writer’s Conference finalist. She holds a BA in Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley and an MA in Clinical Psychology, JFK University. She has lived Italy for the last twenty years.