A.W. Deannuntis lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and has published fiction in periodicals that include The Evansville Review, Philadelphia Short Stories, Silent Voices, The Armchair Aesthete, Timber Creek Review, Lynx Eye, Los Angeles Review, Yemassee, First Class, Pacific Coast Journal, Short Stories Bimonthly, Luna Negra, CrossConnect, Spout, The Iconoclast, North Atlantic Review, Nite-Writer's International, Onionhead, Nuthouse, Mind in Motion (Pushcart Prize nomination), Kiosk, Cimarron Review, California Quarterly, Dog River Review and Coe Review, as well as three books published by What Books Press, the novels MASTER SIGER'S DREAM (2010) and THE MERMAID AT THE AMERICANA ARMS MOTEL (2012), and the story collection, THE FINAL DEATH OF ROCK-AND-ROLL AND OTHER STORIES (2014).