Mighty Mercury

Makes Meatballs without Meat, Love without the Leaning, and Idolatry without Golden Calves. He holds an MAR, MFA, and BA, but not exactly in that order, he doesn't exactly hold them all at the same time (his hands would get too tired), and one doesn't necessarily build upon the other. He has a PhD in progress, but progress, like masturbation, is nothing to brag about.... unless there are others to admire it.

He has been a bagel cook, a bouncer, a 7-11 Midnight to Eight Manager, a Prostitute, a Goth musician, a Record Store Villain (and sometimes a Hero), a Restraint Officer, a Cartographer, an Editor (still is), a Minister, a bar fighter, and a professor of Esoteric Studies (still is). He hopes to be a full time Writer someday, the way Wonderbread is a full time bread even though it is unqualified to be considered so.

He is a proud member of an active artistic family. His uncles, Glen and David, are a well known poet and painter, respectively. His cousin, Daryl, is a not so well known aspiring writer. There are many actors, writers, photographers, and painters in his family, worth and not worth mentioning. The Morazzini's are a ferocious brood of House Goblins. His great grandfather was "Chef of Chefs" in Italy!

Giordano's NonFiction and Poetry has appeared in The Cafe Review, Palimpsest, Words and Images, the Gut, and the Maine Scholar among other places. He received an Honorable Mention for "emerging writer" from Our Stories in 2009.

He lives in the fine state of Perdition, with his wife and two tuxedo cats. His interests include: Christian Mysticism, Gothic Music and Culture, Ashtanga Yoga, Veganism, Tantra, and Consciousness Studies.