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Adriana Trigiani is an American novelist, television writer, producer and film director. Trigiani grew up in Big Stone Gap, Virginia and attended Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana.  In 1996, she won the "Most Popular Documentary" award at the Hamptons International Film Festival for directing the Queens of the Big Time. The following year, she served as co-producer on the documentary film Green Chimneys. In 2001, Trigiani wrote a novel about the town titled Big Stone Gap, based on a screenplay by the same name she authored. In 2008 Trigiani served as the Appalachian writer in residence at Shepherd University. Trigiani lives in Greenwich Village in New York.