Dennis Barone

Dennis Barone is the author of seven books of short fiction, including On the Bus: Selected Stories (BlazeVox, 2012) and two novellas: Temple of the Rat (Left Hand Books, 2000) and God’s Whisper (Spuyten Duyvil, 2005). Left Hand Books published his selected poems volume one, Separate Objects (1998), and Shearsman Books published volume two entitled Parallel Lines (2011). He has also published a collection of prose poems The Walls of Circumstance (Avec Books, 2004), and the mixed genre book Sound / Hammer (Quale Press, 2015). 

Barone is editor of Beyond the Red Notebook: Essays on Paul Auster (1995), New Hungers for Old: One-Hundred Years of Italian-American Poetry (2011), and Garnet Poems: An Anthology of Connecticut Poetry Since 1776 (2012). He has published a study of Italian-American narrative America / Trattabili (2011) and Beyond Memory: Italian Protestants in Italy and America (SUNY Press, 2016).

Barone earned his BA from Bard College and his PhD in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania, and he teaches at the University of Saint Joseph in Connecticut.