Joseph C PolaccoJoe Polacco, a native of Brooklyn, has spent most of his life as a citizen of Missouri. He is Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry at the University of Missouri in Columbia where he lives with his wife Nancy Malugani-Polacco. After years of producing lmericks and jokingly being called Poet Laureate of Biochemistry, he decided to write Vina, a more serious memoir upon the passing of his mother. Read More Read Less