Philip Vassallo -- Biography

Phil Vassallo holds a B.A. in English from Baruch College, an M.S. in education from Lehman College, and a doctorate in educational theory from Rutgers University. He has taught writing for Cornell University, Kean University, and Middlesex County College. More than 100 of his poems have appeared in various print journals and in websites, including Open Sewer, Identity Theory, Moongate Internationale, Ludlow Press, Red Booth Review, Red River Review, Outerbridge, Chaminade Literary Review, Rustlings of the Wind, (this) poetry site, Cyber Oasis, Catalyzer, Eotu, Snakeskin, Fluid Ink Press, Wilmington Blues, PoetrySuperHighway, Southern Ocean Review, Atomic Petals, still, Twelfth Planet, Electric Acorn, Poetry Webring, Some Words, Lucid Moon, Spoken War, Librium Implant, Artistic Wasteland, and Decathlon2000. He has also published over 100 articles as a freelance journalist and essayist. His column on education issues, "The Learning Class," has appeared in various newspapers and magazines across the nation and on EducationNews.org. In addition, he writes a column on writing issues, "Words on the Line," which appears in etc., the journal of the International Society for General Semantics. Seven of his plays have been produced Off-Off Broadway, and he was a recipient of a New Jersey State Council on the Arts playwriting fellowship and a finalist in three national playwriting competitions.

Reach Phil at vassallo@aol.com.

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