About Me

I lived my early years in the Little Italy neighborhood of the Bronx. On those streets, I was kept honest by

tough nuns and an even tougher mother. As a teen, we moved off to Southern Italy to start a new life,

which ran out of steam after five years. While there, I traded baseball for soccer, graffiti for oils on

canvas, comic books for Greek and Roman Mythology, and ham and cheese on white bread for Prosciutto

Panini.

I came back to the States a very changed young man, forced to jump-start an almost forgotten

lifestyle. It was 1969, and I was a fifteen-year-old being shaped by all the social upheaval of that period. I

continued living in the Bronx, attending Fordham Prep and Fordham University on the Rose Hill Campus,

battling authoritarian and unyielding Jesuits. It was all for the better.

I stayed with Fordham Graduate to complete my M.A. in American Government and Comparative

Politics and went back to the Prep to teach Italian and Political Science. I decided to stay in the teaching

field, eventually landing in a suburban school district.

I presently make my home in Mahopac, New York. I raised four children and remain happily married

to my wife, Adelaide.

I have published three books thus far- Bronx River North (2016),

Americano (2021), Leylah (2022). They are all listed on Amazon. Proceeds from sales are donated to the

Alzheimer’s Association in memory of my mother, Maria.

My fourth Kiss the Midnight Rain will be out for the summer of 2025, my fifth, Goat Island, will be

published at the end of 2025.