

Fasano is the 2008 winner of the RATTLE Poetry Prize, a finalist for the 2009 Missouri Review Editors’ Prize, and twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

He has been featured in the Academy of American Poets’ poem-a-day program and on Verse Daily. Fasano’s debut novel The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing was released in 2020 by Platypus Press to high critical acclaim.įasano’s work has appeared in The Yale Review, The Southern Review, Boston Review, The Times Literary Supplement, Tin House, FIELD, Measure, and Passages North, among others. Joseph Fasano is the author of four books of poetry: The Crossing (Cider Press, 2018), Fugue for Other Hands (Cider Press, 2013), which won the 2011 Cider Press Review Book Award Inheritance (Cider Press, 2014), which has been nominated for the James Laughlin Award and Vincent (Cider Press, 2015).

The book will be published on November 25, 2022. The book follows a young couple who escapes from Italian fascism during the end of the Second World War. However, his curiosity knew no bounds and he went to initiate a conversation by asking if she was travelling for work or fun and she said “just a little trip to see family." While she looked at him directly (as if identifying him) for a moment, the situation didn’t get any better before their flight took off.The Swallows of Lunetto by alumnus and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Undergraduate Creative Writing Joseph Fasano '08 was recently bought by Mallory Smart at Maudlin House. Should I say anything?”, he went on to wait for the lady to recognise him but she didn’t. That excited him to engage in a live conversation with his Twitter fam to update them on ‘what happened next’.īeginning with a tweet, “The person next to me on this airplane is reading my novel. Remember when SSR said, ‘Why are you sorry, you don’t know me because I have not done anything worth remembering it’? This, somewhat, got translated into a real-life moment when American author Joseph Fasano had a seatmate on an airplane who was reading one of his recent novels, The Swallows of Lunetto, and was completely unaware of his identity. However, not everybody feels disheartened over such instances and rather take it in a way like MSD did while on a flight with Priyanka.

There are times when people fail to recognise personalities who have earned a name for themselves in a reputed industry.
