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Camille Cusumano is a writer who dances tango. She is the author of the upcoming TANGO: an Argentine Love Story, available in October, 2008, from Seal Press. Below, you can watch a short video she made in Buenos Aires with Martin Jacovella, Tango Around the World.
She has written on food, fitness, and travel for more than 20 years, and recently on dance and yoga. She was a staff editor at VIA Magazine, the AAA Northern California travel publication for 17 years.
Her work has appeared in many publications, including Islands, Country Living, the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, the New York Times, Yoga Journal, and the Washington Post.
Her cookbook credits include The New Foods (Henry Holt), America Loves Salads (Literary Guild), Rodale’s Basic Natural Foods Cookbook (co-written with Carol Munson, Editor Charles Gerras), and Tofu, Tempeh, and Other Soy Delights (Rodale).
Her novel, The Last Cannoli (Legas, 2000) was inspired by her growing up in a large Sicilian American family. The book, wrote former San Francisco Poet Laureate Lawrence Ferlinghetti, “attests to the power of storytelling to hold life together through all its diasporas.”
Her short story Plot Theory, was published in the 2006 summer issue of the North American Review, America’s oldest literary journal, upon winning third place in the annual Kurt Vonnegut fiction contest.
She has contributed essays to travel anthologies and is the editor of the anthology series: France, a Love Story, Italy, a Love Story, Mexico, a Love Story, and Greece, a Love Story, all published by Seal Press, Emeryville, Calif.
Watch a short video she made in Buenos Aires with Martin Jacovella, Tango Around the World.