Author Brian Fanelli’s poetry has been published or is forthcoming in The Los Angeles Times, World Literature Today, Blue Collar Review, Oklahoma Review, Main Street Rag, Poetry Quarterly, Spillway, Boston Literary Magazine, and several other publications. His work has been twice nominated or the Pushcart Prize and the Working Class Studies Association’s Tillie Olsen Creative Writing Award. He is the author of the chapbook Front Man (Big Table Publishing) and All That Remains (Unbound Content). Brian has an M.F.A. from Wilkes University, teaches English full-time at Lackawanna College, and is a Ph.D. student at SUNY Binghamton. He is also a contributing editor to Poets’ Quarterly and a book reviewer for PANK. He lives in PA with his significant other, Jenna, and their cats, Dante and Sappho.
Brian is also a contributing editor to Poets’ Quarterly and a book reviewer for PANK. He has taught creative writing, composition, and literature at Penn State Worthington-Scranton, Keystone College, and Lackawanna College. He has an M.F.A. from Wilkes University and is a Ph.D. student at SUNY Binghamton.
Published Poems and Essays
- Big River Poetry Review: “Some Years Later”
- Blue Lotus Review: “Lone Protestor”
- Boston Literary Magazine: “Mr. Dobson” and “After Working Hours”
- Boston Literary Magazine: “New Girl” and “Waiting Room”
- Eunoia Review: “First Day Student”
- Eunoia Review: “Listening to the Neighbors”
- Oklahoma Review: “Temp Worker”
- PANK: Various Book Reviews
- Poets’ Quarterly: “From Motown to Mos Def: The Musical Influences of Patrica Smith, Major Jackson, and Kevin Coval”
- Solstice Literary Magazine: “Before He Enlisted”
- The Portland Review: “Missed Cues”
- vox poetica: “The Plot” and “Where Poetry Exists”
- Young American Poets: “Dive”
Interviews and Stories
- Review by Off the Coast: http://www.off-the-coast.com/OTC_winter2014_reviews.html
- Review by Dante Di Stefano: http://harpurpalate.blogspot.com/2014/02/dante-distephano-reviews-brian-fanellis.html
- Review by Andrew Ruzkowski: http://www.poetsquarterly.com/2014/01/all-that-remains-by-brian-fanelli.html
- At The Inkwell: Poets Quarterly: http://www.poetsquarterly.com/2013/10/interview-with-brian-fanelli.html
- The Scranton Times Feature Story: http://thetimes-tribune.com/lifestyles/well-versed-keystone-college-instructor-establishes-himself-as-poet-receives-nomination-for-prestigious-award-1.1429838
- Scrinvengale Interview: http://galemartin.me/blog/2012/5/16/writer-wednesday-with-poet-and-writer-brian-fanelli.html
- PANK Review of Front Man: http://www.pankmagazine.com/pankblog/reviews/front-man-by-brian-fanelli-a-review-by-gretchen-primack/
- Songs of Siren Review of Front Man: http://songsofsirens.wordpress.com/tag/brian-fanelli/
