Jiambalvo, John

John Jiambalvo, a fiction writer as well as a poet, holds a BA and an MA in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He did doctoral work at the University of Chicago, where he received both a Whiting and a Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship. Jiambalvo has worked throughout the Midwest in several sales and marketing positions and has also taught at a number of universities, served at Cook County Jail as a social welfare worker, and experienced the life of a novice in the Dominican order. "Americana Collection: Poems of War and Peace" is Jiambalvo's third book. His previous two publica...