by W. S. Di Piero (Author)

Nitro Nights is a Book of Fortune about sexual love, dying, city scruff, racial unease, and American conscience.

Author Biography

W.S. Di Piero: Poet, essayist, and translator, W.S. Di Piero was born in South Philadelphia in 1945 and grew up in an Italian working class neighborhood. Di Piero's honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Ingram Merrill Foundation, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund award, and the first Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize for Italian translation from the Academy of American Poets. He lives in San Francisco.