Nail Chiodo
Nail Chiodo was born in Padua, Italy, in 1952. The son of Italian biologists who emigrated to the United States, he lived in America for more than twenty years, in an arc of time that spanned from when he was of kindergarten age until he was 36 years old. He also spent some years in Paris, first while at elementary school and then as a university student. In 1974, he received a BA in philosophy from Yale. Since 1978, his primary creative activity has been the writing of verse in English. He currently resides in the country just north of Rome.