Dolores Stewart Riccio
www.doloresstewartriccio.com
Dolores was born in Boston and spent her early years in Pembroke, a lovely small town on the South Shore of Massachusetts, very near Plymouth, America’s Home Town (a location later featured in a number of her novels.)
She began her writing life as a poet and, through the years, has published hundreds of poems (as Dolores Stewart) in literary journals such as The American Scholar, The Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Poetry, and others. Two collections of her poems, Doors to the Universe and The Nature of Things, have been published by Bellowing Ark Press.
Later she turned her talent for creating recipes into several cookbooks (as Dolores Riccio), always with health themes and a familial Mediterranean influence.. The best known of these is Superfoods:300 Recipes for Foods that Heal Body and Mind, published by Time-Warner in 1992;100,000 copies sold.’
In recent years, Dolores has moved on to writing fiction. She is the author of ten Cass Shipton Adventures, set in Plymouth, as well as two stand-alone novels, The Ghost Who Came Home from the Auction and Spirit. She has also co-authored two books about ghosts, Haunted Houses U.S.A and More Haunted Houses.
The Cass Shipton books, about a circle of Wiccan women who solve crimes, touch on many of her lifelong interests, in food, herbs, pets, poetry, and all things metaphysical. After the loss of her beloved husband, Ottone M. Riccio, in 2011, Dolores moved to Plymouth, which seems like coming home after all.
![The Divine Circle of Ladies Digging the Dirt: The 9th Cass Shipton Adventure by [Dolores Stewart Riccio]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51sKAOT3pwL._SY346_.jpg)
