ANTHONY  S. MAULUCCI

Anthony S. Maulucci was born in Hartford and grew up in suburban Connecticut. He has lived in Boston, Montreal, Toronto, and New York City.  Mr. Maulucci worked in professional theatre and enjoyed a prominent career as a freelance writer before turning to college teaching in 1989. He has taught fiction writing and/or literature at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Art, the University of Hartford, Three Rivers College, and the University of Connecticut.  In 1995, Mr. Maulucci founded an independent press to publish the work of Italian Americans who were marginalized or ignored by both mainstream publishers and other small presses.

His first novel, The Discovery of Luminous Being, was published by Lorenzo Press in 1995, followed by Adriana’s Eyes and Other Stories in 1999 and  The Rosselli Cantata, which has received positive national attention, in 2001.  His new novel, Dear Dante, will be released in March 2006. All for Love, Mr. Maulucci’s first poetry chapbook, was privately printed by Quiet City Books in 2000.  Two more chapbooks have since appeared, The Morning Light and 25 Love Sonnets. He earned his B.A. with honors in English Literature from Charter Oak State College and his M.A. in Liberal Studies from Wesleyan University. He lives in Southeastern Connecticut.

For more information about Anthony Maulucci, visit www.anthonymaulucci.com. For more information about his books, go to www.lorenzopress.com.

“I believe that art can help achieve personal healing and world harmony, and I have chosen the totem of the green tiger to represent my work, because, for me, it symbolizes the persistence of the positive life force that is the hope for our future on this planet.”