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Joseph Fasano

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Joseph Fasano
Born (1982-05-17) May 17, 1982 (age 42)
Suffern, New York
Alma materHarvard University (BA)
Columbia University (MFA)
GenrePoetry, Fiction
SpouseLaura Rinaldi[1]
Website
josephfasano.net

Joseph Fasano (born May 17, 1982) is an American poet and novelist. Fasano was raised in Goshen, New York, where he attended Goshen Central High School. He earned a BA in philosophy from Harvard University in 2005 and an MFA from Columbia University in 2008.[2] His poem "Mahler in New York" won the 2008 RATTLE Poetry Prize.[3] He has been a finalist for the Missouri Review Editors' Prize[4] and the Times Literary Supplement Poetry Competition, among other honors.[5] He has taught at SUNY Purchase, Manhattanville College, and Columbia University.[6]

Fasano's poems have appeared in the Yale Review, the Southern Review, FIELD, Tin House, Boston Review, Measure, Passages North, the American Literary Review, and other publications.[7]

In 2011, Fasano's first book, Fugue for Other Hands, won the Cider Press Review Book Award.[8] It was nominated for the Kate Tufts Poetry Award and the Poets' Prize, "awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award." His second collection of poems, Inheritance, was released in May 2014. In 2015, Fasano published Vincent, a book-length poem based very loosely on the 2008 killing of Tim McLean by Vince Li on a Greyhound Bus near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, on the Trans Canada Highway.[9] His fourth collection of poems, The Crossing, was released in 2018.

Fasano's first novel, The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing, was published in 2020 to critical acclaim.[10][11][12][13] His second novel, The Swallows of Lunetto, became a viral social media sensation during his 2023 European book tour, covered by the BBC, the Evening Standard, The Independent, and other media.[14][15][16]

In 2013, the literary magazine Polutona released a selection of his poems in Russian translation.[17]

Selected bibliography

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References

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  1. ^ "Mental Illness, Recovery, and Creation: a Conversation". Archipelago.
  2. ^ http://www.combustus.com/13/joseph-fasano-poet/ Interview with Joseph Fasano
  3. ^ http://www.rattle.com/poetry/2009/01/mahler-in-new-york-by-joseph-fasano/ Archived 2014-02-28 at the Wayback Machine RATTLE 2008 Poetry Prize Winning Submission
  4. ^ http://www.missourireview.com/tmrsubmissions/editors-prize-contest/editors-prize-winners/#2009 Missouri Review Editors Prize 2009 Winners Page
  5. ^ http://waywiser-press.com/josephfasano.html Archived 2013-03-27 at the Wayback Machine Waywiser Press Page for Joseph Fasano
  6. ^ "Fasano, Joseph". Archived from the original on 2013-05-24. Retrieved 2013-07-09. Joseph Fasano Bio Page at Manhattanville College
  7. ^ http://www.versedaily.org/2013/aboutjosephfasano.shtml Verse Daily: About Fugue for Other Hands
  8. ^ http://ciderpressreview.com/contributors/joseph-fasano-ba-2011/ Cider Press Review 2011 Book Award Announcement
  9. ^ Miljure, Ben. "New book offers imagined perspective of Greyhound bus killer". CTVNews Winnipeg. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  10. ^ "The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing by Joseph Fasano". September 2020.
  11. ^ "The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing by Joseph Fasano". 5 September 2020.
  12. ^ "September Book Review: The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing by Joseph Fasano". September 2020.
  13. ^ "THE DARK HEART OF EVERY WILD THING | Kirkus Reviews".
  14. ^ "Author Joseph Fasano recounts sitting next to someone reading his book on a flight". 23 February 2023.
  15. ^ "'Magical moment' for author as he sat next to stranger on plane reading his book". Independent.co.uk. 23 February 2023.
  16. ^ "'Magical moment' for author as he sat next to stranger on plane reading his book". 23 February 2023.
  17. ^ "Джозеф Фазано - СТИХИ - полутона".
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