David Ciminello is a New York based writer and educator. His fiction has appeared in the Lambda Literary Award winning anthology Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City, Underwater New York, Lumina, and on broadcastr. His poetry has appeared in Poetry Northwest. He is currently working on a novel manuscript; a queer journey through WWII era NYC that involves tomatoes, cooking, Coney Island, a missing baby, a runaway gay boy, and burlesque queen.
