About Alexandra D'Italia
Alexandra has more than twenty years experience teaching and coaching writing.
Alexandra D’Italia’s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Meat for Tea, Red Rock Review, Arcadia, South Loop Review, among others. Love Creek Productions staged her short play, The Fix Up, in New York, New York in 2012. She is an Associate Artist with Dorland Mountain Arts Colony and a member of the Los Angeles Women Playwrights’ Initiative. She has her masters in creative writing from University of Southern California.
A Tough Mudder, a WWOOFER and an avid traveler, most of the photographs you see on this site are hers. You can see what else she’s up to at alexandraditalia or read her selected writings.
A former criminal appellate attorney, Alexandra has worked as a law school professor for more than twenty years with an emphasis in advanced legal writing. She is a teacher who believes motivating students through the challenges of writing will result in a more confident writer. She believes process and internal accountability are most important to evolving into a successful writer—and are the hardest challenges to grasp.
According to Alexandra, a teacher who is authentic about the difficulty of these challenges will be even more effective.
We spend time challenging our own assumptions, pushing ourselves to tell an even better story. I say “we,” because with all students, I learn something new as well. If I am not willing to share, willing to be challenged, why should one of my students?
RECENT PUBLICATIONS + AWARDS
What Life is It, Underwood Press (Spring 2019).
Volunteer of the Year- Literary Hero, Jacaranda Foundation (2019)
When He’s in the Room, Gold Man Review (Fall 2016)
Marjorie’s Thursday and Friday, Meat for Tea (Summer 2016)
When the Roundtable is a Rhombus, Online Sundries, Arcadia Magazine (Serialized Monologues 2013-15)
When He’s in the Room, Winner, Edward W. Moses Graduate Fiction Award, University of Southern California (Spring 2013).
Her Five Acres, Red Rock Review (Spring 2013).
The Fix Up, NorthNorthwest, Anthology of Ten-Minute Plays (December 2013).
Excellence in Teaching Award, Southwestern Law School (2012, 2013)
Writer’s Residency, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony (awarded for December 2012).
What Good Children Do, Arcadia Literary Magazine (November 2012).
PRODUCTIONS
Look See, Play Lab, Last Frontier Theatre Conference 2013, Valdez, AK
The Fix Up, Short Play Festival, Last Frontier Theatre Conference 2013, Valdez, AK
The Fix Up, Fireworks Festival Summer One Acts, 2012, Brief Acts, A division of Love Creek Productions, New York, NY
