She has earned degrees from the University of Puget Sound and Princeton Theological Seminary, and holds an honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Keuka College. Ricciuti served for 25 years as a parish pastor (23 of those pioneering in co-pastoral models with her husband Anthony), with congregations in Massillon, Ohio and Byron, N.Y.—including from 1983 to 1998, at the Downtown United Presbyterian Church in Rochester. She is co-author of the two-volume Birthings and Blessings: Liberating Worship Services for the Inclusive Church, and is currently collaborating on a book on what preachers might learn from artists. Ricciuti is a frequent contributor to Lectionary Homiletics, and has also written for Feasting on the Word and Feasting on the Gospels.