Joseph J Benevento Non-Member New

I'm a poet and fiction writer.

Fiction Poetry

Joe Benevento has had sixteen of his books in poetry and fiction published, including his YA novel, The Odd Squad, which was a finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Book Award. His poems, stories, essays and reviews have appeared in about three hundred places, including Prairie Schooner, Poets & Writers, The MacGuffin, South Dakota Review and Bilingual Review. He taught creative writing and American lit. for forty years at Truman State U., where he also was the longtime poetry editor for the Green Hills Literary Lantern. Benevento grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Queens. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude from NYU, with degrees in English and Spanish, before getting graduate degrees from Ohio State and Michigan State, where he completed his Ph.D. with a dissertation comparing the writings of Walt Whitman and Jorge Luis Borges. Benevento has four children, all of whom are also writers.

Location:

Kirksville, MO

Birthdate:

15 November (71 years old)

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