Conversation with Cheryl A. Ossola, Author of "How Long a Shadow," and Lisa DeNatale

About this event

VICA is proud to welcome author Cheryl A. Ossola to Vermont. Cheryl will be joined by VICA President Lisa DeNatale for an afternoon of conversation about Cheryl's new book, "How Long a Shadow."

This is a free event, thought the host does require an RSVP. Please register at this website:

https://phoenixbooks.biz/event/2026-12-06/cheryl-ossola-conversation-lisa-denatale-how-long-shadow

About the Author:

Cheryl A. Ossola is a second-generation Italian American and a descendant of the stonecutters who shaped Barre, Vermont's granite industry, on which her forthcoming novel "How Long a Shadow" (Cynren Press, 2026) is based.

Her fiction and poetry explore Italian heritage, art, identity, and the immigrant experience. A new edition of her debut novel, "The Wild Impossibility" (2019), came out from Cynren Press in 2026. Her third novel, "Sisters of Lucrezia," about art and obsession, set in Italy, is forthcoming in 2028, also from Cynren Press.

Her work has appeared in Fourteen Hills, Writer's Digest, Switchback, VIA: Voices in Italian Americana , and Eastern Iowa Review: Best Prose Poetry 2025 .

A former editor and freelance writer with an MFA from the University of San Francisco, Ossola writes "Italicus: A Writer's Life in Italy" from a hilltop town in Umbria.