About

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Originally from Brooklyn, NY, writer, poet, performer, and playwright, John Biscello, has lived in the high-desert grunge-wonderland of Taos, New Mexico since 2001.
He is the author of four novels, Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale, Raking the Dust, Nocturne Variations, and No Man’s Brooklyn; a collection of stories, Freeze Tag, two poetry collections, Arclight and Moonglow on Mercy Street; and a fable, The Jackdaw and the Doll, illustrated by Izumi Yokoyama. He also adapted classic fables, which were paired with the vintage illustrations of artist, Paul Bransom, for the collection: Once Upon a Time, Classic Fables Reimagined. His produced, full-length plays include: LOBSTERS ON ICE, ADAGIO FOR STRAYS, THE BEST MEDICINE, ZEITGEIST, U.S.A., and WEREWOLVES DON’T WALTZ.
Some of his primary influences and creative heroes include: Henry Miller, Charlie Chaplin, Ernest Hemingway, John Fante, Anais Nin, Jack Kerouac, Knut Hamsun, Yasunari Kawabata, William Saroyan, Dr. Seuss, Dylan Thomas, Julio Cortazar, Patrick Modiano, Marguerite Duras, Dylan Thomas, Haruki Murakami, Paul Auster, Raymond Carver, Sylvia Plath, David Lynch, Ingmar Bergma, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Clarice Lispector, Samuel Beckett, and the list goes on and on and on.

10 Responses to About

  1. jillianmrks says:
    August 15, 2017 at 3:24 am

    Very interesting blog, John. Glad I stumbled upon your work 🙂

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  2. robertcday says:
    September 18, 2017 at 7:53 am

    Reading Raking the Dust is like trying to straighten kinky hair before realising, after several pages, that actually, one never liked straight hair.

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  3. bunsareallthatyourequirehere says:
    April 24, 2018 at 10:19 am

    You’ve have such a wonderful way with words.

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  4. Artist/Poet_JayMoraShihadeh says:
    November 18, 2020 at 12:35 pm

    Great list of influencers, same on many, at least the ones I know! 😉

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