Emily Gallo
Emily Gallo | |
|---|---|
| Born | Emily Ruth Kaufman July 22, 1949 (age 72) New York City, New York, United States |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Education | Clark University |
| Genre | Literary Fiction |
| Website | |
| https://www.emilygallo.com/ | |
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Emily Gallo (born July 22, 1949) is an American novelist and former teacher. Her novels delve into topical, social justice themes such as homelessness, racism, gender identity, marijuana as a medical alternative, and interpersonal relationships. The quirky characters introduced in her books become protagonists of subsequent novels, although they are not precisely sequels. Gallo's work typically falls under the genre of Literary Fiction, and they all take place in different parts of California.
Before her career as a writer, she spent 30 years as an elementary school teacher. She was named Sacramento County Teacher of the Year in 2006 and founded the multiage department at Bowling Green, one of the first charter schools in California.
Early Life
Born Emily Ruth Kaufman in New York City on July 22, 1949, to Abraham Kaufman, an attorney, and Priscilla Lieber, a speechwriter for Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. of NYC.[1] Her sister, Laura Kaufman, was a music publicist.[2] Gallo attended Friends Seminary, a Quaker school in Manhattan.
Her mother was a staunch Democrat, working on campaigns and holding office in New York. Her father was an immigration attorney, sometimes getting “paid” by bartering or not at all. Although her father was a colonel in the army reserves, he was against the Vietnam War and counseled young men on how not to get drafted. Her parents and fourteen years of attending Quaker school taught her always to stand up for her beliefs and to take care of the underdog, as well as a strong sense of social justice and to be anti-war.
She lost her mother to cancer when she was eighteen and her father to cancer when she was twenty-six. These deaths at such an early age influenced much of what she writes: finding love and family in unlikely places and with unlikely people and not letting past events and tragedies cast shadows over the present and future. In July 1976, she married William Saur and then divorced in 1999. They welcomed two children: Chris Saur, born in 1980, and Eva Saur Clancy, born in 1984.
Career
Teaching
Gallo earned a bachelor's of arts degree in English from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1971 and a teaching credential.[3] She lived and taught at elementary schools in low-income, ethnically diverse neighborhoods in San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Northampton, Massachusetts, before moving to Davis, and teaching in Sacramento.[3] She taught piano to elementary school students and their teachers, establishing a program duplicated in many other classrooms. In the late 1990s, she was chosen to be a literacy coach in the University of California, Davis Area 3 Writing Project, and the Sacramento City Unified School District, mentoring teachers and teachers-in-training.
She instituted a program in the Davis Joint Unified School District called TALK (Teach Another Language to Kids), a before-school program teaching French and Spanish to elementary students. She also founded the multiage department at Bowling Green, one of the first charter schools in California. She was ultimately voted a Sacramento County Teacher of the Year in 2006.
Writing
She began by writing screenplays in 2006, gave talks and interviews about the screenwriting process, and was a finalist in a virtual pitch contest for her script of The Columbarium. In 2009 Hulon E. Crayton II of Premier Booking Management and Company and Cold Weather Films contacted Gallo to represent her for the movie of The Columbarium, but talks stalled.[4][5]
She started writing novels in 2014 and published her first novel Venice Beach, in January 2015, which Publishers Weekly promoted on their website.[6] She views Authors Frank McCourt and Carson McCullers as inspirations.[7] She became a member of the North State Writers (A Branch of the California Writers Club) in 2014.[8]
She has since gone on to publish The Columbarium (October 2015), Kate & Ruby (August 2016), Roads Not Taken (July 2017), Murder at the Columbarium (September 2018), The Last Resort (February 2020), and DREAMer (April 2021). Each of her novels has drawn praise from the Chico Enterprise-Record.[9] She has also regularly discussed her novels on Nancy’s Bookshelf, a North State Public Radio podcast.[10]
She lent her expertise on how to begin a career as an independent author on Ms. Career Girl in 2019.[11] In January 2021, The Davis Enterprise wrote an article about her novel The Last Resort and her ties back to Davis, California.[12] In September 2021, The Indie View interviewed Emily Gallo to discuss her novel, DREAMer.[13] Children being taken away from their parents at the U.S. border is what inspired her to write DREAMer.[14]
Later Life
She moved to Chico, in 2006 when she married David Gallo, Professor of Economics at California State University, Chico, and was able to retire from teaching and start a writing career. She also returned to playing piano and drawing. In April of 2009, she founded a writing group for the homeless in Chico, California. They published two volumes of a literary magazine called Derelict Voice.[15]
Current Life
She now divides her time between two and a half acres of gardens and orchards in Chico, California, and a 750 square foot condo on the beach in Carpinteria. She writes all of her books at the Tin Roof Café in Chico, California.[13] She may write about loners, but she is a social person, finding the need for action around her to get her creative juices flowing and it is the conversations with others that give her ideas. She is drawn to write about misfits and loners, people who have faced tragedy and risen above it. She writes about the importance of people coming to terms with their past and not being a prisoner of it. She is also on the advisory committee for the Museum of Northern California Art (MONCA).[16]
References
- ↑ 1950 United States Federal Census.
- ↑ Staff, Variety; Staff, Variety (March 25, 2012). "Laura Kaufman dies at 66".
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Write from the Heart: An Interview with Murder at the Columbarium Author Emily Gallo". April 4, 2019.
- ↑ "Hulon E. Crayton II". IMDb.
- ↑ "CN&R • Arts&Culture • Scene • Words to write by • Apr 30, 2009". April 29, 2009.
- ↑ "/404". www.publishersweekly.com.
- ↑ O'Hare, Vinny (July 13, 2021). "Emily Gallo". awesomegang.com.
- ↑ ""Members." North State Writers".
- ↑ "Search Results for "Emily Gallo"".
- ↑ "Site Search - NSPR | NSPR". www.mynspr.org.
- ↑ Girl, Ms Career (August 20, 2019). "How to Begin Your Career as an Independent Author". www.mscareergirl.com.
- ↑ "Longtime former Davis author publishes latest novel". January 7, 2021.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 "IndieView with Emily Gallo, author of DREAMer |".
- ↑ Goodies, Book (September 27, 2021). "DREAMer by Emily Gallo". bookgoodies.com.
- ↑ "Ken Smith (October 14, 2010). "Words from the street." Chico News & Review".
- ↑ "In the spotlight: Art of homeless youth at Chico city hall". August 29, 2018.
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