Fabrizio borsani biography of christopher

American novelist

Christopher David Castellani (born 1972) is the author of four novels and artistic director of the creative writing non-profit GrubStreet.

Family and education

Christopher Castellani, the son of Italian immigrants, was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware, and graduated from Salesianum School in 1990. He holds a B.A. in English literature from Swarthmore College, an M.A.

in English literature from Tufts University, and an M.F.A.

Fabrizio borsani biography of christopher

in creative writing from Boston University. He resides in Boston, Massachusetts.^[1] He has been married to Michael Borum since May 21, 2004.^[2]

Novels and other publications

Castellani is the author of four novels.

His first book, A Kiss from Maddalena, won the 2004 Massachusetts Book Award.^[3] That novel and his next two, The Saint of Lost Things and All This Talk of Love, are devoted to the same Italian-American family and constitute, in one reviewer's phrase, "s