Writer of non-fiction / historical fiction

Di Renzo is an Associate Professor of creative writing at Ithaca College. He has published dozens of

articles and essays in many literary journals and magazines, including Voices in Italian Americana,

River Styx and Essays & Fictions. He is author of several books, including the well-received “Bitter Greens:

Essays on Food, Politics and Ethnicity From the Imperial Kitchen,” published in 2010.

His most recent, and the topic of our discussion, is his first book of historical fiction, “Trinacria: A Tale of

Bourbon Sicily,” published in fall 2013 by Guernica Editions.