Eat Now; Talk Later (Vescovi)

Author Bio
• Birth—June 14, 1960
• Where—New York, New York, USA
• Raised—Kalamazoo, Michigan
• Education—B.A., Miami University of Ohio; M.A., Columbia University
• Currently—lives in New York City


James Vescovi’s essays about his eccentric grandparents have appeared in The New York Times, Alimentum Journal: The Literature of Food, Creative Nonfiction, Newsday, Gazzetta Italiana, the anthology Our Roots Are Deep with Passion: New Essays by Italian-American Writers (Other Press), and other venues.

His fiction and essays been published in Midwestern Gothic, The New York Observer, the Georgetown Review, and Natural Bridge. He teaches high school English and lives in New York with his wife and three children. On warm Saturday afternoons, you can find him in his volunteer garden in Riverside Park trying desperately to make things grow. (From the author.)

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