Joseph Fasano

Joseph Fasano
Born	(1982-05-17) May 17, 1982 (age 39) Suffern, New York
Genre	Poetry, Fiction
Website
josephfasano.net

Joseph Fasano (born 1982) is an American poet and novelist. Fasano was raised in Goshen, New York, where he attended Goshen Central High School. He earned a BA in philosophy from Harvard University in 2005 and an MFA from Columbia University in 2008.^[1] His poem "" won the 2008 RATTLE Poetry Prize.^[2] He has been a finalist for the Missouri Review Editors' Prize^[3] and the Times Literary Supplement Poetry Competition, among other honors.^[4] He has taught at SUNY Purchase, Manhattanville College, and Columbia University.^[5]

Fasano's poems have appeared in the Yale Review, the Southern Review, , Tin House, Boston Review, , Passages North, the American Literary Review, and other publications.^[6]

In 2011, Fasano's first book, , won the Cider Press Review Book Award.^[7] It was nominated for the Kate Tufts Poetry Award and the Poets' Prize, "awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award." His second collection of poems, Inheritance, was released in May, 2014. In 2015, Fasano published Vincent, a book-length poem based very loosely on the 2008 killing of Tim McLean by Vince Li on a Greyhound Bus near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, on the Trans Canada Highway.^[8] His fourth collection of poems, The Crossing, was released in 2018.

Fasano's first novel, The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing, was published in 2020 to critical acclaim.^{[9][10][11][12]}

In 2013, the literary magazine released a selection of his poems in Russian translation.^[13]

Bibliography[]

• The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing, (, 2020)
• The Crossing (Cider Press Review, 2018)
• Vincent (Cider Press Review, 2015)
• Inheritance (Cider Press Review, 2014)
• Fugue for Other Hands (Cider Press Review, 2013)

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