Frank Giampietro

About the Artist

Frank Giampietro is the author of "Begin Anywhere" (Alice James Books, 2008) and the creator of the online poetry journals, La Fovea (www.lafovea.org) and Poems by Heart (www.poemsbyheart.org). His poetry, short short fiction, nonfiction, and book reviews have appeared in journals including 32 Poems, American Book Review, Barrow Street, Black Warrior Review, Copper Nickel, Cimarron Review, CutBank, FENCE, Hayden's Ferry, Narrative, Ninth Letter, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, Poetry International, Subtropics, and Rain Taxi. Awards for his writing include a Florida Book Award, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and fellowships from The Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. He received his PhD in English from Florida State University in August, 2010 and was the 2010-2012 resident scholar at The Southern Review. Currently, he lives in Farmington, Maine with his wife, the potter, Cherie Giampietro.