Maurizio Giammarco received his M.A. in fiction in 1987. After graduating, he went on to earn a Ph.D. in English from Temple. His articles and book, theater, and film reviews have appeared in The Temple News, Reel Visions, City Paper, and The Journal of Modern Literature. He is an independent filmmaker whose films and videos have appeared in university festivals. In 1994, he received an award from the Hunger Task Force of the Diocese of New Jersey for his documentary on hunger, a work distributed and shown throughout the Garden State. He is currently on the Creative Writing faculty at Rosemont College.