Professor Joseph Salvatore
Joseph Salvatore is the author of the story collection To Assume A Pleasing Shape (BOA Editions, 2011) and the co-author of the college textbook Understanding English Grammar, 10/e (Pearson, 2015). A Spanish translation of his story collection, Presentarse En Forma Grata, was published in 2018 by Editorial Dos Bigotes, Madrid, Spain. He is Books Editor at The Brooklyn Rail and a frequent contributor to the New York Times Sunday Book Review. His fiction has appeared in, among other places Minor Characters (Roundabout, 2021), Tiny Nightmares (Catapult, 2020), Writing the Virus (Outpost 19, 2020); The Collagist, Dossier, Epiphany, New York Tyrant, Open City, Post Road, Salt Hill, Sleeping Fish, Statorec, and Willow Springs. His criticism has appeared in the Los Angeles Times; Rain Taxi; Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture; Angels of the Americlypse: an Anthology of New Latin@ Writing; 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11; The Believer Logger, and elsewhere. He is an associate professor of writing at The New School, where he received the University Distinguished Teaching Award and was the founding editor of the literary journal LIT. He has taught writing at Eugene Lang and Parsons School of Design. He lives in New York City.
Professor Anthony D'Angelico
Anthony D’Angelico is a professor of writing across multiple universities. Currently, he teaches writing and world literature at Kean University and horror literature at New Jersey City University. His writing has been published in The Seton Hall Magazine and his academic research on Stephen King studies has been presented annually at conferences like the Northeast Modern Language Association and the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association. D’Angelico has a special connection with Bangor, Maine—the inspiration for King’s fictional Derry—and has connections to SK Tours. He lives in New Jersey.