Mike Maggio is an assistant adjunct professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College, an associate editor at Potomac Review and a graduate of George Mason University’s MFA program in Creative Writing. He has published fiction, poetry, translations, travel and reviews in Potomac Review, The Montserrat Review, Pleiades, Apalachee Quarterly, The Northern Virginia Review, The L.A. Weekly, The Washington CityPaper, Beltway Quarterly, Pig Iron, DC Poets Against the War., Washington Independent Review of Books and others.
His books include Your Secret is Safe with Me (Black Bear Publications, 1988), Oranges from Palestine (Mardi Gras Press, 1996), Sifting Through the Madness (Xlibris, 2001), deMOCKcracy (Plain View Press, 2007) The Keepers (March Street Press) and Garden of Rain (Aldrich Press, 2015). His novel, The Wizard and the White House, was released in 2014 by Little Feather Books. His novella, The Appointment, was released by Vine Leaves Press and was followed by the publication of his short story collection, Letters from Inside (Vine Leaves Press) in 2019. His newest collection of poetry, Let’s Call It Paradise, was released by San Francisco Bay Press in 2022 and won the International Book Award in Contemporary Poetry in 2023.
Forthcoming work includes A Brief Gazelle: Poems of Love and Grief (to be released in 2024) and a novel, Woman in the Abbey, to be released in 2025.
During the 1980's,, Mike Maggio worked directly with the well-known Iraqi poet, Lamia Abbas Amara, on a joint translation project in which each translated the other's poems. Currently, he is working on an Italian poetry translation project which can be viewed on his web site, www.mikemaggio.net. He has three children from his Palestinian wife of 33 years.
