Stephen Prosapio was born in Louisville

Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...

, Kentucky

Kentucky

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, but grew up in the southwest suburbs of Chicago

Chicago

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. He received a Bachelors of Arts degree in Political Science from DePaul University in Chicago in 1993.

After reporting for one of the nation’s largest fantasy football websites, footballguys.com, from 2001 until 2003, he wrote his first novel. Competing against 2,676 other novels, Stephen won a Top Five Finalist award. in Gather.com’s 2007 First Chapters contest. Dream War

Dream War

Dream War is the first novel by Stephen Prosapio.The book was a finalist in the Gather.com First Chapters contest. The novel was submitted to The Touchstone imprint of Simon & Schuster.The novel was released on July 14, 2010....

was released on July 14, 2010.

His first print novel Ghosts of Rosewood Asylum was released by Otherworld Publications on 6/18/11.

Stephen works as an executive recruiter and resides in Oceanside, California

Oceanside, California

-2010:The 2010 United States Census reported that Oceanside had a population of 167,086. The population density was 3,961.8 people per square mile...

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