Peter Covino is the author of the poetry collection, Cut Off the Ears of Winter (2005), published by New Issues, and a finalist for the Publishing Triangle Thom Gunn Award. Covino was born in Italy and educated there and in the States, where he earned an M.S. degree from Columbia School of Social Work. He received his Ph.D. in English/Creative Writing at the University of Utah where he was a Steffensen Cannon Fellow. Covino is also the author of Straight Boyfriend, winner of the 2001 Frank O'Hara Chapbook Prize. His poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Columbia, The Journal, The Paris Review, Verse, and The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing. Currently, he is completing a translation project of Italian poets for an anthology on Contemporary European Poets, Graywolf Press 2007. Covino is also one of the founding editors of the literary press, Barrow Street Inc, and Barrow Street Books (established 1998). He teaches at the University of Rhode Island.

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