TTUP book named L.A. Times Book Prize finalist

Catherine Tufariello's book Keeping My Name was selected as one of five finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the category of poetry. The book was published by Texas Tech University Press in April 2004.

Keeping My Name was the 2004 winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry and was named a Booklist Editors' Choice title for 2004. Catherine Tufariello has taught literature and writing courses at Cornell, the College of Charleston, and the University of Miami. Her poems and translations have appeared in Poetry, The Hudson Review, Yale Italian Poetry, The New Penguin Book of Love Poetry, and Longman literature anthologies.

The book has been well-received by critics. A reviewer for Booklist wrote "In immaculate, subtly musical meter and rhyme, Tufariello conjures scenes of the city, modern history, marriage and family, love in the Italian Renaissance, and the women of the Bible that fully engage the mind and the heart." ForeWord magazine's reviewer wrote "For formalists, this author comes as a gift, a poet fully in charge of her forms, subtle and controlled. She embraces the villanele, Petrarchand and Shakespearean sonnets, the measured quatrain, rhymed couplets. . . . What excites the reader is watching Tufariello use the limits of these traditions to stretch her creativity."