Welcome to the website of C. Delia Scarpitti, writer, book reviewer, editor, and teacher of writing and literature.
Personal Statement: "Anais Nin said, "We write to taste life twice, once in the moment and once in retrospection." With this simple yet profound declaration, she opened up the world of words for me when I was just an adolescent girl with a notebook and a pen. I declared right there on the page, I do not plan to go hungry. My work in the time since has been an ongoing effort to feed myself through my experiences, and to share these writings to nourish others. I have written essays to speak to my experiences in the often jagged-edged territory dividing motherhood and creativity, my journey through post-partum depression, and how the maternal and political intersect for all of us. With my poetry, too, that edge of where family and individual meet and split has been a guiding line in my creative wanderings. Over the past year, as I have moved into the fiction writing process, I find that once again the fragmented segments of family reveal our personal and collective breaks. This is what my interest is right now, in mining this rich landscape in my work and offering it up for artistic consumption." --C. Delia Scarpitti--