Digging Up the Dead

Mary Bucci Bush's novel, Sweet Hope, about Italians and African Americans living and working together on a Mississippi Delta cotton plantation 1901-1906, and winner of the Tillie Olson Working Class Studies Book Prize, was published by Guernica Editions (2011). Her collection of short stories, A Place of Light (William Morrow), winner of the PEN/ Nelson Algren Award, was republished by Guernica Editions in 2007. Her fiction has appeared in various literary journals and anthologies including The Missouri Review, Ploughshares, The Black Warrior Review, VIA (Voices in Italian Americana), Italian Americana, Story, Growing Up Ethnic in America (Penguin), From the Margin: Writings in Italian Americana (Purdue University Press), The Voices We Carry: Recent Italian/American Women's Fiction (Guernica) and The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture (Feminist Press) among others. She is a past recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writers Fellowship. She is Professor Emerita of English and Creative Writing at California State University, Los Angeles.