Dino Enrique Piacentini grew up in Los Angeles, lived in San Francisco for twenty years, and has also, at various times, set down stakes in Houston, Oaxaca, Champaign, and Prague. His writing has been published in Gulf Coast, Confrontation, Pembroke, The Globe & Mail, The Atticus Review, and The Massachusetts Review, among other places. He has taught creative writing at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; the University of Houston; the Boldface Emerging Writers Conference; Denver Litfest; and Inprint Houston. Currently, he lives in Denver and teaches creative writing at the University of Denver and Lighthouse Writers Workshop.