Gianna Russo

Gianna Russo is the author of the poetry collections Moonflower epi One House Down, and the chapbooks The Companion of Joy epi In Late Day Sun, with photographer Lori Ballard. Her poetry has appeared in Tampa Review, Ekphrasis, Crab Orchard Review, Florida Review, Florida Humanities Council Forum, and others. Her creative nonfiction essays have appeared in the Tampa Bay Times, and she also contributed a chapter to the collaborative novel 15 Views of Tampa Bay. All I See Is Your Glinting: 90 Days in the Pandemic (Madville Publishing), a dialogue between Russo’s poems and the images of photographer Jenny Carey, documents each day of the last quarter of 2020. Against the backdrop of the pandemic, Russo wrote 90 poems focusing on the small, meaningful moments of everyday life. Stunning photographs of the natural world and intimate environments enrich and further open the text. Together, they refract and reflect our collective experience through a personal lens. All I See Is Your Glinting champions the value of nature, friendship, family, and love in coping with individual and universal suffering and grief.

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