Louis Gallo
Professor Gallo's teaching interests include creative writing and modern and
contemporary literature. His stories, poems and essays have appeared in
journals such as Glimmer Train, Greensboro Review, Missouri
Review, New Orleans Review, Loyola Review, Berkeley
Fiction Review, Baltimore Review, The MacGuffin, Modern
Poetry Studies, American Literary Review, Critique,
Mississippi Review, Thema, Green Hills Review, Italian
Americana, Louisiana Literature and many others. His latest
publications include a third story, "Mashed Potatoes," in Glimmer Train
and a poem in Rattle, which is distributed by Barnes & Noble. Dr.
Gallo has won first prize for fiction entries in Greensboro Review and
Italian Americana; one of his stories will be reprinted in an anthology
of southern literature from LSU Press in 2005. He once won the NEA South
Carolina Arts Commission Individual Artist's award. Another story was
reprinted in The Bench Press anthology. Dr. Gallo is former editor of
The Barataria Review, a literary magazine that first published Julia
Alvarez and Ellen Gilchrist; a former editor of Books: A New Orleans Review;
and a contributing editor of The Pushcart Press. Dr. Gallo's personal
interviews with William Burroughs, Walker Percy, James Purdy, Susan Sontag,
Miller Williams and others have been published in varied newspapers. He has
read his fiction and poetry at Spoleto, Stephens College, University of
Missouri, New Orleans University, Barnes & Noble, Radford University,
Northeast Missouri State University (now Truman University), McNeese State
University and many others. He founded the Mardi Gras Poetry Readings in New
Orleans, which still thrive now as The Maple Leaf Readings. He has served as
an editorial consultant for Houghton-Mifflin, Longman and Prentice-Hall. He
has served on academic panels at the MLA, the AWP Writer's COnference, the
Winthrop College Writers Conference and others. Dr. Gallo received his BA
from Tulane University, his MA from Louisiana State University and Ph.D. from
the University of Missouri.
Other interests include book-selling and appraisal, antiques and collectibles, editing manuscripts, the study of the history of consciousness (via Neumann, Wilber, Jung, Jaynes, Eliade and others), shamanism and visionary experiences.
E-mail address: lgallo@radford.edu
Last updated: 08/22/2004