Felice Picano

Felice Picano is the author of thirty one books of poetry, fiction, memoir and non-fiction. His work has been translated into fifteen languages including Chinese, Hebrew and Slovenian, and several titles were national and international bestsellers. His first novel was a “PEN/Hemingway Award” finalist. At the 2004 Tennessee Williams Festival, Felice won the Violet Quill Life Achievement Award. The New York Times listed his history/memoir Art & Sex in Greenwich Village as a Notable Book of the Year. In 2009, The Lambda Literary Foundation presented him with their Lifetime Achievement/Pioneer Award. He's been nominated for six Lambda Literary awards in four categories and been honored with a Ferro-Grumley award for best novel of the year and by Locus.com 's Hall of Fame. His memoir Nights at Rizzoli won a Rainbow Award. Recent publications include an anthology of GLBT Latino-American fiction titled Ambientes: Latino Gay Writing Today, a memoir, True Stories: Portraits From My Past, as well as short stories collected in Contemporary Gay Romances and Twelve O’Clock Tales. In 2013, Picano’s play The Bombay Trunk, will be produced in Canada, and two of Felice’s new short novels will be published as 20th Century Unlimited. Picano has recently given reading/presentations at the Oceanside, CA. Public Library, Smith College, The Lavender Library in Sacramento, Antioch University L.A., SAGE in New York City, Peterborough and Ottawa, Canada, the Palm Springs Library, Sierra College in Roseville, CA. and the LGBT Historical Musuem in San Francisco.

Picano died at the age of eighty-one on March 12, 2025.