Joseph Fasano
Born (1982-05-17) May 17, 1982
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

  • The Swallows of Lunetto (Maudlin House, 2022)
  • The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing, (Platypus Press, 2020)
  • The Crossing (Cider Press Review, 2018)
  • Vincent (Cider Press Review, 2015)
  • Inheritance (Cider Press Review, 2014)
  • Fugue for Other Hands (Cider Press Review, 2013)

References

  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". 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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