Joe Benevento

Joe Benevento grew up in a working class neighborhood in Queens, a fictional version of which is featured in much of his fiction. Benevento has taught American literature, Mystery, and creative writing for the past forty years at Truman State, in Kirksville, Missouri. "My Perfect Wife, Her Perfect Son" is his sixteenth book overall, and his seventh work of fiction; His most recent book of poems is Playground, with another, "The Cracker Box Poems," due out soon. Benevento and his wife of 30 years, Carol Fohey Benevento, have four children, Maria, Joseph, Claire, and Margaret.