Paul Fericano

N/A Yossarian Universal News Service

Millbrae, CA 94030-0236

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www.yunews.com

Author's Bio

Paul Fericano is the co-founder of the first parody news syndicate, Yossarian Universal News Service (1980) and the director of SafeNet, an advocacy group that assists survivors of clergy sexual abuse. His poetry and satires have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Quarterly, Second Coming, Poetry Now, The Realist, Free Lunch, Outlaw Poetry, The Wormwood Review, Punch (London), Charlie Hebdo (Paris), and Krokodil (Moscow). He is the author of several poetry books and chapbooks, including Things That Go Trump in the Night: Poems of Treason and Resistance, The Hollywood Catechism, Commercial Break, Driving to Reno with Freud, and Loading the Revolver With Real Bullets. He is also the co-author (with Elio Ligi) of the political satire, The One Minute President. In 1982 his poem, Sinatra, Sinatra, was awarded the infamous Howitzer Prize and then dutifully exposed by the author as a literary hoax. Paul is the editor of The Broadsider and author of A Room With A Pew, a regular blog/column on clergy sexual abuse and the healing process. He currently resides on the San Francisco peninsula.

Publications and Prizes

Prizes Won:

American Association of University Women (AAUW) Fiction Award (1969); The Hibiscus Press Poetry Prize (1976); The Howitzer Prize for Poetry (1982); The Prix de Voltaire (Paris, 1983); The Ambrose Bierce Prize (1983); The Santa Barbara Summer Poetry Workshop Competition (2008); C.J. Bryant Award for Excellence in Poetry, Great Britain (2014); A Mark Fischer Poetry Prize (2015) for "Howl of Lon Chaney, Jr."