Biography
George Guida was born in Brooklyn and raised on Long Island. His early years were marred by spotty literary production. After graduating from Malverne High School, George attended Columbia University, where he earned a BA in English. He went on to get a Master's and Doctorate in English from The City University of New York, where he studied with Allen Ginsberg, Grace Schulman, Morris Dickstein and Robert Viscusi.
Since 1998 George has taught English and creative writing at New York City College of Technology (CUNY), where he is an associate professor, and since 2001 has taught Italian American and Immigration Studies at Stony Brook University. In addition to teaching, George co-hosts the
Intercollegiate Poetry Slam, which he co-founded, at the Bowery Poetry Club. He has also
taught in the Savage Mountain Creative Writing Summer Program and the
Controlled Burn Workshop for Young Writers, and serves as an officer
of the American Italian Historical Association. He lives in New York City, escaping occasionally to a faraway plot of arable land.
George's publications include the forthcoming novel Letters from Suburbia (Smalls Books, 2010), New York and Other Lovers: Poems (Smalls Books, 2008), Low Italian: Poems (Bordighera, 2006), a finalist for the Bordighera Poetry Prize; The Pope Stories (The Sutton Press, 2005), a chapbook; and The Peasant and the Pen (Lang, 2003), a book of critical essays. His writing appears in American Fiction, J Journal, Barrow Street, Hurricane Blues, Inkwell, The Paterson Literary Review, Poetry New York, The Columbia Journal of American Studies, The Journal of Popular Culture, Voices in Italian Americana, and other journals and collections. He has just completed a play based on The Pope Stories, now in pre-production, and is at work on an expanded collection of pope stories, a novel, a third collection of poems, and a book on Italian cooking with the restaurateur Thomas Verdillo.
