Editorial Freelancers Association
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Billy Lombardo
writing pros/e
Billy Lombardo is a writer, editor, and teacher from Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of The Logic of a Rose: Chicago Stories, The Man with Two Arms, and Meanwhile, Roxy Mourns. His novel, How to Hold a Woman will be re-issued by Tortoise Books as Morning Will Come in January 2021. His most recent work has been published in Hypertext Magazine, Ireland’s HCE Review, The Tishman Review, Tikkun Magazine, The Chicago Reader, The Chicago Tribune, and Triquarterly. billy is the 2011 Nelson Algren Fiction Award winner. He is currently at work on the House of Fiction Deconstructed for the Apprentice Writer. billy is also the founder and managing editor of Polyphony Lit, a student-run, international literary magazine for high school writers and editors www.polyphonylit.org. An international staff of two hundred high school students comment on every one of more than 2,000 submissions that come to Polyphony Lit from more than 70 countries so far. billy can be reached through his writing and editing, business, Writing Pros/e, at www.writingprose.org. He lives in Chicago’s Albany Park neighborhood.
Chicago, IL
US
Email: billylombardo1@gmail.com
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Years in the field: 25
Years freelancing: 20
Billy Lombardo
Billy Lombardo is a writer, editor, and teacher from Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of The Logic of a Rose: Chicago Stories, The Man with Two Arms, and Meanwhile, Roxy Mourns. His novel, How to Hold a Woman will be re-issued by Tortoise Books as Morning Will Come in January 2021. His most recent work has been published in Hypertext Magazine, Ireland’s HCE Review, The Tishman Review, Tikkun Magazine, The Chicago Reader, The Chicago Tribune, and Triquarterly. billy is the 2011 Nelson Algren Fiction Award winner. He is currently at work on the House of Fiction Deconstructed for the Apprentice Writer. billy is also the founder and managing editor of Polyphony Lit, a student-run, international literary magazine for high school writers and editors www.polyphonylit.org. An international staff of two hundred high school students comment on every one of more than 2,000 submissions that come to Polyphony Lit from more than 70 countries so far. billy can be reached through his writing and editing, business, Writing Pros/e, at www.writingprose.org. He lives in Chicago’s Albany Park neighborhood.
