Ricco Villanueva Siasoco has published in Joyland, Post Road, The North American Review, and numerous anthologies, including Walang Hiya (Carayan Press, 2010) and Screaming Monkeys (Coffee House Press, 2003). In 2013, he was selected as a NYC Emerging Writer Fellow at The Center for Fiction. Siasoco received his MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and taught writing at Boston College. He is completing a PhD in English education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and finishing a novel. (updated 5/2016)