Bios:
Robert Viscusi
James Periconi
Vittoria Repetto
Fred Gardaphé
George Guida
Jeanne Dickey
Gil Fagiani
Maria Lisella

Robert Viscusi

Robert Viscusi, the author of "The Three Rules of IAWA," has published the novel Astoria (Guernica Editions, American Book Award 1996) and the performance poem An Oration upon the Most Recent Death of Christopher Columbus (VIA Folios). He has published numerous essays in books and journals on Italian American literature and culture, among them "Breaking the Silence: Strategic Imperatives for Italian American Culture," which appeared in the first number of VIA: Voices in Italian Americana and became a manifesto for IAWA. Viscusi has been a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities and of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute. He is Broeklundian Professor and executive officer of the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities at Brooklyn College, as well as president of the Italian American Writers Association. His most recent works are a collection of poems entitled A New Geography of Time (Guernica Editions 2004), and a critical history entitled Buried Caesars, and Other Secrets of Italian American Writing (State University of New York, 2006).