Joanna Clapps Herman (born in 1944 in Waterbury, Connecticut) is an Italian American, writer, editor and professor of creative writing who lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She teaches at City College of New York, The Center for Worker Education, is on the Museum of Fine Arts faculty in writing of Manhattanville College, and teaches writing and memoir workshops. Her writings on Italian American identity and culture have added to the dialogue of what it means to be an Italian American and being Italian in America. She is a member of the Malìa, a collective of Italian American women. She is currently writing After the Manner of Women (forthcoming, Fordham University Press, 2014).