Cultural Writing. WOMEN ON WAR gathers together writings by more than 150 women, including renowned poets, novelists, essayists, journalists, and activists, as well as ordinary women with first-hand experiences of armed conflict as survivors, refugees, rape victims, nurses, and soldiers. Contributors include Daisy al-Amir, Claribel Alegria, Maya Angelou, Margaret Atwood, Gioconda Belli, Gwendolyn Brooks, Emily Dickinson, Marguirite Duras, Slavenka Drakulic, Barbara Ehrenreich, Emma Goldman, Nadine Gordimer, Kimiko Hahn, June Jordan, Maxine Kumin, Denise Levertov, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Gabriela Mistral, Toni Morrison, Grace Paley, Arundhati Roy, Muriel Rukeyser, Vandana Shiva, Luisa Valenzuela, Alice Walker, Virginia Woolf, Daisy Zamora and more than 100 others.

Daniela Gioseffi has presented her poetry throughout North America and Europe at universities, cultural centers, and international book fairs, in Madrid, London, New York, California, Barcelona, and Venice. She's performed her works for National Public Radio, Pacifica Radio, the BBC in Oxford and London and for numerous other media venues. Her book, Women on War: International Writings (Feminist Press, 2003) won an American Book Award, and was published in Vienna and London. Her novel, The Great America Belly (Doubleday & Dell, NY; New English Library, London) was optioned for a screenplay by Warner Bros. Her fiction, Daffodil Dollars won a PEN, 1990 short fiction award and was aired on many NPR affiliates. In 1993, Anchor/ Doubleday published her world compendium, On Prejudice: A Global Perspective with a fifty-page introduction by Gioseffi that won a Ploughshares Fund, World Peace Award and was presented at the United Nations. Poems contained in her debut collection, Eggs in the Lake (BOA Editions, 1979), won award grants from The New York State Council for the Arts. She published three more volumes of poetry, Word Wounds & Water Flowers, 1995, and Going On, 2000 (Bordighera: VIA Folios); and Symbiosis, 2002 (Rattapallax: NY). Her verse was etched in marble on a wall of PENN Station's 7th Avenue Concourse, New York, with Ginsberg's and Whitman's. In 2003, AIAE presented her with a Lifetime Achievement Award.