Angela Alaimo O'Donnell teaches English & Creative Writing at Fordham University and serves as Associate Director of Fordham's Curran Center for American Catholic Studies. O'Donnell has published three collections of poems, Saint Sinatra, Moving House, and Waking My Mother, and two chapbooks MINE and Waiting for Ecstasy. Other titles include The Province of Joy, based on the prayer life of Flannery O'Connor, Mortal Blessings, a meditation on everyday sacraments, and Flannery O'Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith, a brief biography. Readers may visit her on the web at http: //angelaalaimoodonnell.com/.