Formichella, Joe

Joe Formichella is a Hackney Literary Award winner and Pushcart Prize nominee whose work has appeared in Grassland Review, Red Bluff Review, and anthologized in Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe II and Climbing Mt. Cheaha. He is the author of The Wreck of the Twilight Limited, a novel, and Here's to You, Jackie Robinson, an historical account of the all-black Prichard Mohawks, an amateur baseball team formed in the 1950s, that shows how those young players succeeded despite the degradations and persecutions of the Jim Crow South. He lives in Fairhope, Alabama.