Reading with Linda Dini Jenkins and Barbara Worton

Linda Dini Jenkins is the author of Becoming Italian: Chapter and Verse from an Italian American girl, Up at the Villa: Travels with my Husband, and Journey of a Returning Christian: Writing into God. Her poetry has been published in Voices in Italian Americana, Ovunque Siamo, Touchstone, Tampa Review, South Florida Poetry Review, Vermont Voices I and II, and Poeti italo-americani e italo-canadesi. She is the author of the one-act play, Things I Never Told My Mother and, with lifelong friend Barbara Worton, she coauthored the choreopoem, If I'm Talking, Why Aren't You Listening? She is a contributing writer and Copy Editor for Abruzzissimo Magazine and writes occasionally for The Adventures of the Baker's Daughter. She lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire and Sulmona (Abruzzo), Italy.

On Becoming Italian: Chapter and Verse from an Italian American girl:

"Here, in chapter and verse, is the tale of an Italian American girl who started out in the suburbs of New York City and writes her way to understanding herself, her family, and her place in the world."

Barbara Worton is an author, poet, playwright, blogger, and songwriter. Her books include
Bedtime Stories: The Short, Long and Tall Tales of a Sleepwriter and the award-winning
children’s book Too Tall Alice. Her third book, Chatterbox: Stories from a Noisy Life launches in March 2025. She coauthored the choreopoem If I’m Talking, Why Aren’t You Listening? with Linda Dini Jenkins and the web memoir and blog The Adventures of The Baker’s Daughter with Rochelle Udell. Barbara’s story “London Calling” appears in Memories of John Lennon, edited by Yoko Ono. Her writing has also appeared in literary journals and women’s service and business publications, including The Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, Ovunque Siamo, The Paterson Literary Review, VIA: Voices in Italian Americana, and Platform Review.

Barbara is a member of the Italian American Writers Association, writes songs as a member of Laverne + Ralph, and lives with her husband Geoff in New Jersey. For more information, visit www.barbaraworton.com!

“I love Bedtime Stories. The book is a memoir in stories and poems. Barbara writes about the everyday, the mundane, the quirky, and makes it beautiful.” Paul Rabinowitz, Founder ARTS by The People, author truth, love & the lines in between and Grand Street, Revisited

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