Third Reader

Joe Ponepinto has 30 years of writing and editing experience as a fiction writer, journalist, speechwriter and marketing business owner. He currently writes fiction full time. Joe is the Book Review Editor for the Los Angeles Review. He is a graduate of the MFA program at the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts, where he studied under award-winning authors including David Wagoner, Bruce Holland Rogers, and Kathleen Alcalá. His work has been published in many print journals, including Vestal Review, Los Angeles Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, The Summerset Review’s annual anthology, Raven Chronicles and others. His most recent novel is represented by Andrea Hurst Literary Management. Joe’s blog on writing and criticism is at http://otnipenop.com.