Maria Giura is the author of two poetry collections published by Bordighera Press--If We Still Lived Where I Was Born (November 2025) and What My Father Taught Me--and a memoir, Celibate, which won a 1st place Independent Press Award. An Academy of American Poets winner, Giura has been published in several journals including New York Quarterly, Prime Number, Liguorian, Presence, PLR, Ovunque Siamo, Italian Americana and in the anthologies Celebrating Calabria: Writing Heritage and Memory edited by Margherita Ganeri and Maria Mazziotti Gillan and #Me Too, Anch’ io edited by Daniela Gioseffi and in  Giura has taught writing at multiple universities including Binghamton where she received her PhD in English and currently teaches memoir workshops for Casa Belvedere. https://casa-belvedere.org/cultural-programs/
​Her writing has also appeared in journals including (click on link to read or hear):
Midstory
New York Quarterly
Prime Number
Liguorian
Presence
Vita Poetica
​Italian Americana
Ovunque Siamo  , Ovunque Siamo II , Ovunque Siamo III 
Brooklyn Film & Arts Festival
Wagner Magazine
Cricket
​Voices in Italian Americana​ 
Celebrating Calabria: Writing Heritage and Memory edited by Margherita Ganeri and Maria Gillan 
#Me Too Anche'io edited by Daniella Gioseffi.