![]() ![]() She has published in The Nation, Southern Exposure, Emmy, and the Village Voice. Giardina’s op-ed pieces have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Charleston (WV) Gazette and Daily Mail. ![]() “Saints and Villains” was awarded the 1999 Boston Book Review Fisk Fiction Prize and was a semifinalist for the International Dublin Literary Award. “The Unquiet Earth” also received the Weatherford Award as well as an American Book Award and the Lillian Smith Award for Fiction, the oldest literary award in the South. Weatherford Award for the best published work about the Appalachian South. “Storming Heaven” also received the 1987 W.D. “Storming Heaven” was a Discovery selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, and a New Voices selection of the the Quality Paperback Book Club. She is also the author of a play, “Robert and Ted” (2012), about Senators Robert C. Norton, 1992), “Saints and Villains,” (W.W. Giardina has written six novels: “Good King Harry” (Harper and Row, 1984), “Storming Heaven” (W.W. ![]() from Virginia Theological Seminary (Episcopal) in Alexandria, Virginia. in history from West Virginia Wesleyan College and an M.Div. Denise Giardina grew up in a coal camp in McDowell County, West Virginia. She received a B.A. ![]()
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