Antonio Vallone

Bio

Antonio Vallone is an associate professor of English and creative writing at Penn State DuBois and a member of the Pennsylvania State University graduate faculty. At Penn State DuBois, he’s won Delta Mu Sigma’s Professor of the Year. In 1999, he won the Pennsylvania State University’s George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2000, he was a finalist for the Milton S. Eisenhower Award for Distinguished Teaching and Mentoring. He was awarded the Advisor of the Year Award by Penn State DuBois in 2001. He is the editor of Pennsylvania English, the journal of the Pennsylvania College English Association, and publisher-editor of Mammoth books, a literary publishing company which has published in its first four years of operation ten titles. He has also held editorial positions with the Indiana Review and the Brockport Review. He was the coordinator of the Associated Writing Programs Pedagogy Forum, sitting on the Panel Selection Committee and chairing the Steering Committee. He is also the chair and past secretary of the creative writing sessions at the Midwest Modern Language Association. He was the past vice-president of the Pennsylvania College English Association and coordinator of the 1998 conference. He was also the past president of the Pennsylvania College English Association in 1999. His poems have been published in a number of journals in the United States and England. He has read his poems and presented papers across the United States. For Fall 2000, he was one of four writers selected to read at the Midwest Modern Language Association Conference. A videotaped interview of him is available through the State University of New York at Brockport Writers Forum Series of interviews.