Biography

Salvatore Pane was born and raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania and now resides in Pittsburgh. His fiction has been published, or is forthcoming, in Hobart, Quick Fiction, PANK, Annalemma, Flatmancrooked, Stymie Magazine, Weave, JMWW, Necessary Fiction, Pear Noir!, We Are Champion, FRiGG, Corium Magazine, Flywheel Magazine, The Emprise Review, Metazen, Bluestem Magazine, Dark Sky Magazine, The Catalonian Review, The Boston Literary Magazine and Folio.

His work is currently in consideration for the 2011 Best of the Web anthology from DZANC and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and shortlisted for Wigleaf’s Top 50 [Very] Short Fictions. He won the 2010 Turow-Kinder Award in Fiction judged by Stewart O’ Nan with an excerpt from his novel Last Call in the City of Bridges.

He also writes comic books. His debut, an original graphic novel co-created with Mark Kleman and Lamair Nash, The Black List, is forthcoming from Arcana Studios.

Pane holds a position as Emeritus Editor at Hot Metal Bridge.  He previously served as Short Fiction Editor of Corium Magazine. He also contributes regularly to BOMB, The Rumpus, PANK and Dark Sky Magazine.

Currently, Pane teaches in the english departments at the University of Pittsburgh, Chatham University, and the Community College of Allegheny County.

He earned a BA in Creative Writing with a minor in Film Studies at Susquehanna University. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Pittsburgh along with a certificate in Composition, Literacy, Pedagogy and Rhetoric. He had the opportunity to study with Tom Bailey, Fiona Cheong, Cathy Day, Gary Fincke, Karla Kelsey, Chuck Kinder and Irina Reyn.

Reach him at salpane@gmail.com, his twitter account, or via Facebook. He is represented by Jenni Ferrari-Adler of the Brick House Literary Agency.