Albert DiBartolomeo received his M.A. in fiction in 1988. He is the author of two novels, The Vespers Tapes (titled Blood Confessions when re-released by Signet in paperback) and Fool's Gold (St. Martins). He has fiction in Italian Americana and VIA; personal essays in Reader's Digest, Philadelphia Magazine, Chicken Soup for the Soul and Human Ecology; and commentaries in the Philadelphia Inquirer and Newark-Star Ledger. He is the recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant.
He is on the Auxiliary Faculty at Drexel University, where he teaches courses in the Department of English and Philosophy, including Writing Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and courses in the Freshman Writing Program. Professor DiBartolomeo is also the Editor-in-Chief of ASK, the journal of Drexel’s College of Arts and Sciences, as well as the Founding Editor of the Drexel Online Journal.