Joseph Fasano

Joseph Fasano
Born	(1982-05-17) May 17, 1982 (age 42) Suffern, New York
Alma mater	Harvard University (BA) Columbia University (MFA)
Genre	Poetry, Fiction
Spouse	Laura Rinaldi[1]
Website
josephfasano.net

Joseph Fasano (born May 17, 1982) is an American poet and novelist. Fasano was raised in Goshen, New York, where he attended Goshen Central High School. He earned a BA in philosophy from Harvard University in 2005 and an MFA from Columbia University in 2008.^[2] His poem "Mahler in New York" won the 2008 RATTLE Poetry Prize.^[3] He has been a finalist for the Missouri Review Editors' Prize^[4] and the Times Literary Supplement Poetry Competition, among other honors.^[5] He has taught at SUNY Purchase, Manhattanville College, and Columbia University.^[6]

Fasano's poems have appeared in the Yale Review, the Southern Review, FIELD, Tin House, Boston Review, Measure, Passages North, the American Literary Review, and other publications.^[7]

In 2011, Fasano's first book, Fugue for Other Hands, won the Cider Press Review Book Award.^[8] It was nominated for the Kate Tufts Poetry Award and the Poets' Prize, "awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award." His second collection of poems, Inheritance, was released in May 2014. In 2015, Fasano published Vincent, a book-length poem based very loosely on the 2008 killing of Tim McLean by Vince Li on a Greyhound Bus near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, on the Trans Canada Highway.^[9] His fourth collection of poems, The Crossing, was released in 2018.

Fasano's first novel, The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing, was published in 2020 to critical acclaim.^{[10][11][12][13]} His second novel, The Swallows of Lunetto, became a viral social media sensation during his 2023 European book tour, covered by the BBC, the Evening Standard, The Independent, and other media.^[14][15][16]

In 2013, the literary magazine Polutona released a selection of his poems in Russian translation.^[17]

• The Last Song of the World (BOA Editions, 2024)
• The Magic Words (TarcherPerigee, 2024)
• The Swallows of Lunetto (Maudlin House, 2022)
• The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing, (Platypus Press, 2020)
• The Crossing (Cider Press Review, 2018)
• Vincent (Cider Press Review, 2015)
• Inheritance (Cider Press Review, 2014)
• Fugue for Other Hands (Cider Press Review, 2013)