Career
Raspanti has a special interest in the Holocaust, which she first brought to the stage with I Never Saw Another Butterfly, a play based on the real-life story of Holocaust survivor Raja Englanderova and stories from the Theresienstadt concentration camp. (A well-known book of drawings and poetry produced by children at Terezin has been published under the same title) Subsequent plays on this topic include Number Fading Star and The Terezin Promise. Raspanti has been acclaimed for enriching her stories with firsthand information of the camps from visits, oral histories, and her friendship with survivors.
A former nun and retired college professor, she also publishes articles in academic and professional journals.
Raspanti resides in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States.