Ray DiZazzo

RAY DIZAZZO, an author of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and criticism, received an associate in arts de-gree in business management from Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California. His work has ap-peared in numerous publications, notably, Westways, The Berkeley Poetry Review, Beyond Baroque, East Riv-er Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Invisible City, California Quarterly and others. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee and the recipient of the Percival Roberts Book Award, and as a recipient of the Rhysling Award, his work was anthologized in their annual publication, The Alchemy of Stars: Burning with a Vision and Contemporary Literary Criticism. DiZazzo has written twelve books, including The Clarity Factor (Source-books, 2009) and three poetry collections. His recent collection is The Water Bulls (Granite-Collen, 2009). www.raydizazzo.com.