Author Chris Campanioni, award-winning novelist and poet, will read and sign copies of In Conversation and Going Down at The Bookplate at the end of the month.
Campanioni became the youngest author to be selected for the International Latino Book Award (Best First Book) in June. The novel is the first in a series that explores communication and language, commodities and media, tourism and terrorism. Since its September 1 release, Going Down has received glowing reviews by newspapers, magazines, and radio stations, including the New York Post, RealClear, Manhattan Times, Bronx Free Press, Brooklyn Eagle, Fjords Review, Nuestras Palabra, and The Michigan Business Network. It is being taught in universities ranging from Texas to Michigan.
Campanioni, a first-generation Cuban- and Polish American, is a journalist, professor, and model, and winner of the 2013 Academy of American Poets Prize for poetry from his collection In Conversation. His work has appeared in the Star-Ledger, San Francisco Chronicle, Bergen Record, The Brooklyn Rail, Fjords Review, the NewerYork, Vending Machine Press, Quiddity International Literary Journal, Blunderbuss, ShapeRosebud Magazine, Lime Hawk, Literary Orphans, La Pluma y La Tinta, Squawk Back, Across the Margin, and elsewhere. He has also worked as an actor with a number of recurring roles on All My Children and One Life to Live, and has been a guest on The Today Show and The View. Campanioni has been photographed for international magazines, books, and catalogues spanning North America and Milan, Paris and Melbourne, including the cover of DNA, along with runway shows in Manhattan, Miami, and Rio de Janeiro.
Campanioni teaches literature and fiction writing at the City University of New York, Staten Island and Baruch College. Find him in space here: www.chriscampanioni.com
Chris Campanioni
The Bookplate
September 26 – 6 PM
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