Frank Giampietro
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Frank Giampietro is an American
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 poet. He is author of Begin Anywhere (Alice James Books
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, 2008). He is the 2010-2012 resident scholar at The Southern Review and has had poems, book reviews, and nonfiction published in many literary journals and magazines including 32 Poems, Columbia Poetry Review, CutBank, Exquisite Corpse, Fence, Hayden's Ferry Review, Cimarron Review, and Rain Taxi. His honors include a 2008 Florida Book Award (a bronze medal in poetry), a fellowship from Sewanee Writers' Conference, and a Kingsbury Fellowship from Florida State University. He is creator and editor of two literary websites, La Fovea and Poems by Heart.
Giampietro earned an M.A. from Washington College
Washington College
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, and M.F.A. from Vermont College of Fine Arts
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, and a Ph.D. in English at Florida State University
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. He lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with his wife and two children.

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