Anthony Di Renzo, a fugitive from advertising, teaches writing at Ithaca College and has published in such journals as Alimentum, Il Caffé, Essays & Fictions, Feile-Festa, The Normal School, River Styx, and Voices in Italian Americana. His latest book, Bitter Greens: Essays on Food, Politics, and Ethnicity from the Imperial Kitchen (State University of New York Press, 2010) received strong reviews. Descended from Spanish nobility who settled in Bagheria in the early 18th century, he lives near the West End, Ithaca, New York's former Italian neighborhood, “an Old World man in a New Age town.” Trinàcria is his first published novel.