About the Author
FRANK POLIZZI was the editor of Feile-Festa, a multicultural, literary arts journal (http://www.medcelt.org/feile-festa/). He worked as a Vista Volunteer in New London, CT, an English teacher on the original staff to reopen Townsend Harris HS at Queens College and the Head of Reference and Instructional Services at the Hormann Library of Wagner College. His poems and stories have appeared in The Archer, Bitterroot, Electric Acorn (Dublin Writers), Mudfish, Paterson Literary Review, Wired Art and others. The Guild of Italian Actors (GIAA) accepted his one-act play, By the Light of a Barber Pole for its reading series in 2009. Two years later, Finishing Line Press published All Around Town, his poems exploring Sicilian American roots and experiences in NYC. Several chapters/stories were published from his novel, A Pity Beyond All Telling, and one of them was shortlisted for the Fish Prize in Ireland. In 2015 Bordighera Press published A New Life with Bianca, a story of a young man’s love for Bianca, told through a series of sonnets in English, Italian and Sicilian. His new novel, Somewhere in the Stars, made the 2014 Long list of the UK publisher, Lightship, for its “First Novel Prize” and was accepted for publication by Guernica Editions in early 2016. Frank died on August 23, 2016.
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Polizzi, Frank, author
Somewhere in the stars / Frank Polizzi. -- 1st edition.
(Essential prose series ; 141)
Issued in print and electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-77183-233-5 (softcover).--
ISBN 978-1-77183-234-2 (EPUB).--
ISBN 978-1-77183-235-9 (Kindle)
I. Title. II. Series: Essential prose series ; 141
PS3616.O42S66 2017
813’.6
C2017-902333-0
C2017-902334-9