David CiminelloDavid Ciminello is a Lambda Literary Fellow and the proud recipient of a Table 4 Writers Foundation Grant. His fiction has appeared in the Lambda Award-winning anthology Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City, Nailed Magazine, and in fie artist Stephen O'Donnell's The Untold Gaze. His work has also been published in the literary journal Lumina and the online anthology Underwater New York. His stories have been featured on the podcast series Storytellers Telling Stories and Peace, Love & Soup and on broadcastr. His original screenplay Bruno, an Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting finalist, was made into a motion picture directed by Shirley MacLaine and starring Kathy Bates, Gary Sinise, and Jennifer Tilly. As a New York City teaching artist, David has taught poetry and has slam-coached multiple award-winning Bronx students, grades 3-5. He holds a bachelor of fine arts degree in acting from The Catholic University of America and a master's degree in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College. David and his husband, photographer and podcast artist Brian Delaney, currently reside in Portland, Oregon. Read More Read Less