Lee Passarella has written poetry and fiction for many years. But figuring that most writers would be hungry anyway if they had to fall back on their writing alone, he has decided to put most of his eggs in the green-and-yellow basket of verse, that least remunerative of literary forms. Ah, but it's a lofty one, is it not?

Passarella grew up in the City of Brotherly Love, or its outskirts, and attended Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a Ph.D. in English literature. He finds this useful in his technical writing duties (his day job). Passarella also serves as senior literary editor of Atlanta Review magazine.

His poetry has appeared in Chelsea, Cream City Review, The Formalist, Antietam Review, Mediphors, Edge City Review, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Snake Nation Review, Slant, Italian Americana, The Louisville Review, Tar River Review, The Writer's Journal, Poems & Plays, and quite a few other places by now.