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Drew Pisarra [1]

Listed as: 
Poet, Fiction Writer
Public address: 
New York, NY
New York US
Bio: 

Drew Pisarra is the author of Periodic Boyfriends (2023) and Infinity Standing Up (2019), two collections of sonnets c/o Capturing Fire Press; You’re Pretty Gay (2021), a collection of short stories c/o Chaffinch Press; and Publick Spanking (1996), another collection of stories c/o Future Tense Books. His first radio radio play, The Strange Case of Nick M. (2021), was commissioned by Imago Theatre and debuted on K-BOO-fm. A literary grant recipient of both Café Royal Cultural Foundation and Curious Elixirs: Curious Creators, he is co-founder of Saint Flashlight, an art activation project that finds unique ways to get poetry into public spaces and has worked with the Poetry Society of America, Nitehawk Cinema, Theatre for a New Audience, and O, Miami among other institutions. He currently lives in Hell’s Kitchen in real life and at mistermysterio in the Twittersphere.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Twitter/X: 
https://twitter.com/mistermysterio
Born in: 
Raised in: 
Website: 
https://drewpisarra.net [2]
Prizes won: 

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Creative Engagement Grant (2023)
Curious Elixirs: Curious Creators, Word (2021)
Commission for New Radio Play, Imago Theatre (2021)
Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation Literary Grantee (2019)

 


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