Gianmarc Manzione is a Puschart Prize-nominated poet and nonfiction writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Southern Review, Raritan and elsewhere. He earned an MFA in creative writing from The New School in 2004, and he has taught English and creative writing at the University of South Florida and the University of Tampa.  In 2006, Parsifal Press published his debut collection of poems, This Brevity. He is at work on two new books, including a second volume of poems as well as a creative nonfiction project tentatively titled PIN ACTION: Hustlers, Con Artists, and the Outrageous Men of Action Bowling. He lives in Dallas.

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