Grace Andreacchi (born December 3, 1954) is an American-born author known for her blend of poetic language andmodernism with apost-modernist sensibility. Andreacchi is active as anovelist,poet andplaywright.

Grace Andreacchi was born inNew York City and grew up in theInwood^[1] section ofManhattan.^[2] She was educated at theAcademy of Mount St. Ursula High School,^[3][4] and went on to study theatre at theStella Adler^[5] Studio. A brief period on the stage was followed by the study ofphilosophy,^[6] first atHunter College (New York City), and then atBinghamton University (Binghamton, New York). In her final year she received a fellowship to study atBedford College, London. Since 1989 Andreacchi has lived in Europe, moving first toParis,^[7] then ruralNormandy, and later toBerlin^[8] (1994–1998) andLondon,^[9] where she now lives. In 2008 she foundedAndromache Books,^[10] a writers' cooperative, to publish literary fiction and poetry.

Her first work was the playVegetable Medley (1985,Soho Repertory Theater, New York andBoston Center for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts), an experimental work fusing elements of comedy and melodrama in a highly poeticised language. Her first novel,Give My Heart Ease (1989), received the New American Writing Award and was translated into Slovenian asPomiri mi srce. Admired by some critics, others found its frank depiction of an abusive sexual relationship disturbing.^[11]

Her 1993 novel,Music for Glass Orchestra, garnered much critical acclaim for its wildly beautiful, surrealistic style.^[12][13] Set in Paris, it contains a wide-ranging discourse on the music ofJ.S. Bach, with special attention to theSonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin. Her first collection of poetry, Elysian Sonnets and Other Poems (1990) was published as a chapbook in Paris.^[14]

In 1995 Andreacchi was a collaborator in the projectViolin Music in the Age of Shopping, a work by avant-garde composer and violinistJon Rose. For her contribution Andreacchi was made an Honorary Fellow of the Rosenberg Foundation (Sydney, Australia).^[15]

The novelScarabocchio (1995), an architecturally adventurous ‘invertedfugue’, is based onGoethe’sItalian Journey, and continues the discussion of Bach through the character of ‘Barton Beale’, a lightly fictionalizedGlenn Gould.^[16] The short novelPoetry and Fear (2001) is set in the Berlinopera world, and uses the myth ofOrpheus to explore themes of love and loss. Later works showed an increased emphasis onChristian spiritual themes. A continued interest in the culture of the far east is reflected inTwo Brothers (2007), a version of the Koreanpansori taleHeungbu and Nolbu. Recent work has shown a turning away from Christianity towards an avowedlyfeminist point of view.^[17][18] Her semi-autobiographical novelYou Are There Behind My Eyelids Forever , a coming of age story withfeminist anderotic content, is set in theInwood of her childhood.

• Give My Heart EaseISBN 0-932966-90-X (1989)
• Music for Glass OrchestraISBN 1-85242-299-8 (1993)
• The ProdigyISBN 978-1-4452-0980-7 (1994, first complete print edition 2009)
• ScarabocchioISBN 978-1-4092-3643-6 (2008)
• Poetry and FearISBN 978-1-4092-3642-9 (2008)
• You Are There Behind My Eyelids ForeverISBN 978-0-244-52504-0 (2021)

• Vegetable Medley (1985)
• Raphael and Tobias (1994)
• Two BrothersISBN 978-1-4092-3672-6 (2007)
• Agnes inDappled Things 2008
• Lawrence inDappled Things 2008
• Two Martyr PlaysISBN 978-1-4092-3768-6 (contains bothAgnes andLawrence) (2009)
• Raphael and TobiasISBN 978-1-4461-3340-8, ebook versionISBN 978-1-4461-2880-0. 2010

• The Golden Dolphins (The Carolina Quarterly 1991)
• The Black Swan (1994)
• Violin Music in the Age of Shopping -The Judy Papers (EditorsJon Rose and Rainer Linz)ISBN 0-646-18105-X,(NMA Publications, 1994)
• Golden Vanities, Stories, Tales and Occasional Pieces (2018)ISBN 978-0-244-10691-1, (Andromache Books, 2018)

• Elysian Sonnets and Other Poems (The Paris Press 1990)
• Songs for a Mad Queen (2000)
• Two Hands Clapping (with artist Alexandra Rozenman)ISBN 978-1-4092-9978-3 (2009)
• Berlin ElegiesISBN 978-1-4452-1640-9, ebookISBN 978-1-4461-2878-7 (2010)
• Little Poems for ChildrenISBN 978-1-4457-6338-5 (2010)
• Ten Poems for the End of TimeISBN 978-1-326-49489-6 (2015)
• Beauty Has a Thousand Faces: Selected PoemsISBN 978-1-4466-2893-5, ebookISBN 978-1-4478-1026-1 (2024)
• Thelonious Magpie: A Book of Found PoemsISBN 978-1-4461-5202-7, ebookISBN 978-1-4461-2505-2 (2024)
• Worm Bug Feather: One Hundred Very Short PoemsISBN 978-1-4461-5968-2, ebookISBN 978-1-4461-7833-1 (2024)

• Grace Andreacchi's website
• An interview with Grace Andreachi on Authortrek
• Grace Andreacchi atLibraryThing
• Grace Andreacchi onPoets & Writers

• 1954 births
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• American women novelists
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• Modernist women writers
• American postmodern writers
• 21st-century American novelists
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• Hunter College alumni
• Binghamton University alumni
• Writers from New York City
• American women dramatists and playwrights
• 20th-century American women writers
• 21st-century American women writers
• 20th-century American poets
• 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
• 21st-century American poets
• Novelists from New York (state)

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