Background
Menza, Claudia Marcella was born on June 11, 1947 in New York City. Daughter of John Gaetano and Antonina (di Lorenzo) Menza.
Menza, Claudia Marcella was born on June 11, 1947 in New York City. Daughter of John Gaetano and Antonina (di Lorenzo) Menza.
Bachelor, Oberlin College, 1969.
Assistant editor Evergreen Review, New York City, 1969-1973. General editor, production manager Grove Press, Inc., 1973-1983. Senior editor Art Director News, 1983-1985.
Partner Menza-Barron Agency, since 1983. Consultant Riverrun Press, New York City, 1983-1996. Guest lecturer Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University, Prairie View, Texas, 1986, New York University, New York City, 1986-1987.
Consultant, panelist National Civil Rights Museum Conference The Power of the Word, Memphis, 1995. Panelist New York University, 1998, The New School, New York City, 2000, The Lost State Writers Conference, Greeneville, Tennessee, 2000, Harlem Book Fair, 2001. Panelist African American Literature Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina, 2003.
Working member Congress of Racial Equality, Hempstead, New York, 1961, Student Nonviolent Coordinator Committee, Oberlin, Ohio, 1965, Students for Democratic Society, Oberlin, 1965, The West Village Committee, New York City, 1980. Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association (trustee, chair prison writing committee, member audit committee), International Platform Association, Academy American Poets, Italian-American Writers Association, Association Authors Representatives.
Married James R. Forker, May 29, 1971 (divorced 1980). Married Charles Anthony Frye, December 16, 1989 (deceased October 1994).