Kathryn Nocerino, a native New Yorker, continues to provoke hostility by writing. Two books of her poetry, Wax Lips and Death of the Plankton Bar & Grill, were published by New Rivers Press. A third book, Candles in the Daytime, was released by Warthog Press. Her short story, “Americanism,” is in the book Growing Up Ethnic in America, edited by Maria Mazziotti Gillan & Jennifer Gillan, Penguin USA 1999.