 DeSalvo taught memoir writing as a part of CUNY Hunter College's MFA Program in Creative Writing, published over 17 books, and was a Virginia Woolf scholar.She edited editions of Woolf's first novel "Melymbrosia", as well as "The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf", which documents the controversial lesbian affair between these two novelists.In addition, she wrote two books on Woolf, "Virginia Woolf