billy lombardo is the author of The Logic of a Rose: Chicago Stories, The Man with Two Arms, Meanwhile, Roxy Mourns, and the forthcoming Morning Will Come. billy is the 2011 Nelson Algren Fiction Award winner. He is currently at work on the House of Fiction Deconstructed for the Apprentice Writer. He is the founder and managing editor of Polyphony Lit, a student-run, international literary magazine for high school writers and editors www.polyphonylit.org. billy holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College and can be can be reached through his author website, www.billylombardoauthor.com (where you can subscribe to his monthly newsletter, billy lit!!! You can also reach him through his writing and editing business, Writing Pros/e, at www.writingprose.org. Born and raised in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood, billy now lives in Albany Park.
