Frank Giampietro's first book, Begin Anywhere, was published by Alice James Books in September of 2008. Giampietro is the creator of La Fovea (www.lafovea.org) and a contributing editor for Hunger Mountain, Southeast Review, and Anhinga Press. Awards for his poetry include a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from Sewanee Writers' Conference, a Kingsbury Fellowship from Florida State University, and a Florida Book Award. His poetry, nonfiction, short-short fiction, and book reviews have appeared recently or are forthcoming in journals including 32 Poems, American Book Review, Barrow Street, Black Warrior, Cimarron Review, CutBank, FENCE, Hayden’s Ferry, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, Poetry International, Rain Taxi, and Subtropics.