Gerry LaFemina’s books include 23 Below, Shattered Hours: Poems 1988-94, Zarathustra in Love, and Graffiti Heart, which received the 2001 Anthony Piccione Prize in Poetry from MAMMOTH Books. His forthcoming collection, The Parakeets of Brooklyn, received the 2003 Bordighera Prize in Poetry, and will be published in a bilingual English-Italian edition. LaFemina’s fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Colorado Review, Nimrod, Quarterly West, Connecticut Review, and in the anthology American Poetry: the Next Generation. He directs the Controlled Burn Seminar for Young Writers—a week-long summer seminar for late-adolescent poets and fiction writers—and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs.

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