Grace Cavalieri has won the Allen Ginsberg Award for poetry, the Pen-Syndicated Fiction Award for short story, the Bordighera  Poetry Award, and a Paterson Prize for Poetry. She holds the Silver Medal from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Awards are also from The Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, The National Endowment for the Arts, The National Commission on Working Women, and The American Association of University Women. She has enjoyed several state arts and humanities council awards and fellowships. She received the inaugural Columbia Award from the Folger Shakespeare Library Poetry Committee for “significant contribution to poetry.”  She was a  founder of jazz radio station WPFW-FM in Washington, DC in 1977. She has produced and hosted “The Poet and the Poem” on public radio for 28 years. The series is now recorded at the Library of Congress for distribution via NPR. More than 2,000 poets have been presented on Microphone as it begins its 29^th year.

Grace is the author of 14 books and chapbooks of poetry; her latest children’s book is Little Line, illustrated by American artist Mary Ellen Long. Her most recent book of poetry is What I Would Do for Love: Poems in the Voice of Mary Wollstonecraft (Jacaranda Press, 2004.) Her forthcoming book Water On The Sun will be issued by Bordighera Press in English and Italian in 2006. She teaches poetry workshops throughout the country, and for 25 years was visiting poet to St. Mary's College of Maryland. She was resident poet in Word Work’s annual retreat in Tuscany, for 8 years, and has held lecturing posts at many universities. She founded the Washington Writers Publishing House and the Bunny and the Crocodile Press. After 30 years, both presses are still going strong in D.C. She is Book Review Editor for www.themontserratreview.com where her column “America’s Stage” is also featured. Cavalieri’s play “Quilting the Sun” was recently presented at the Smithsonian Institution. Her 20^th produced play “Jennie & the JuJu Man” premiered in NYC, 2004. She is presently writing a play about Mary Wollstonecraft (“Hyena In Petticoats”) in development which receives a public reading in NYC,  March 22, 2006 (6:30pm , at the Mid Manhatten Library NY Public Library. 40^th St.& 5^th Av.) presented by the Xoregos Performing Company.