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Christopher Castellani is the son of Italian immigrants and a native of Wilmington, Delaware. He resides in Boston, where he serves as the artistic director of Grub Street, a leading independent creative writing center. As a celebrated author, Castellani has penned three novels: All This Talk of Love (2013), a New York Times Editors' Choice; A Kiss from Maddalena (2003), winner of the Massachusetts Book Award; and The Saint of Lost Things (2005), a BookSense (IndieBound) Notable Book. His book of essays, The Art of Perspective: Who Tells the Story, was published by Graywolf in 2016. Castellani's fourth novel, Leading Men, for which he received a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship, was published by Viking in 2019. He is also a sought-after educator, teaching at the Warren Wilson College Low-Residency MFA program and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.