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Camille Cusumano is a writer who is as comfortable dancing tango as climbing mountains or sitting still on a meditation mat. She writes on
many topics, including adventure travel, culture, food, yoga, Zen, and, of course, tango. Her recent travel memoir, TANGO: an Argentine Love Story, was just published by Seal Press. She lives, writes, and dances between San Francisco and Buenos Aires.
Video credits: A ClickonWebSpots.com Production. Marv Parker, Videographer. Richard Berkvam, Editor. Main Dancers: Andre Levitt & Camille Cusumano. Interview segments shot at Tom Lewis’s La Pista, San Francisco.
Camille Cusumano was an editor at VIA Magazine, the West’s award-winning 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, Islands, Vegetarian Times, 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 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, a division of Perseus Books, Berkeley, California
Watch a short video she made in Buenos Aires with Martin Jacovella, Tango Around the World, simulating a possible TV series. For interviews, contact the author through this site or her publicist at Seal Press (Andie East - andie.eastATperseusbooksDOTcom).