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I was born to Nicholas and Josephine DiChario at St. Mary’s Hospital in the city of Rochester, New York. I spent my childhood growing up in Charlotte, a quiet neighborhood along the shores of Lake Ontario and the Genesee River.
I began working at age 14 as a paperboy for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle and held summer jobs throughout my high school and undergraduate college years, working for my father and uncle in the family’s construction business.
I graduated from Aquinas Institute High School and St. John Fisher College (both located in Rochester) and received my master’s degree in Liberal Studies from State University of New York (SUNY) Empire State College.
My love of storytelling found an outlet when I first attended the SUNY Brockport Summer Writers Forum in 1982. There I met Brockport author Nancy Kress, who served as faculty lead for the science fiction and fantasy program, and we became lifelong friends. I returned to the Summer Forum as a student for several years after that, studying with some of my favorite authors, including Gene Wolf, Karen Joy Fowler, James Patrick Kelly, and John Kessel.
The 80s brought various jobs and some twists and turns in my life until I joined Rochester’s non-profit literary center Writers & Books as a creative writing instructor in the 90s, where I eventually became the organization’s director of education and programming.
After leaving Writers & Books, my long-time friend Daniel A. Plumeau (1959-2016) and I owned an independent bookstore for a while, then I joined the writing team at Paychex, Inc., a Fortune 500 payroll and HR management company centered in Rochester.
For a time after that (nearly ten years), I lived in the beautiful city of St. Petersburg, Florida, working for a subsidiary of Paychex, before returning home to Rochester in 2020. I now work for Paylocity and live among my family and friends again, just a few miles from the hospital in which I was born.
Biblio Info
Novels
A Small and Remarkable Life (2006) Translation: La vie secrète et remarquable de Tink Puddah: [French] (2012)
Valley of Day-Glo (2008)
Collections
Magic Feathers: The Mike & Nick Show (2000) with Mike Resnick: Variant: ebook (2019)
Giovanni’s Tree: New Italian Folktales (2023): Bordighera Press
Short Fiction
Day One Second Coming (1987)
Nyurg Bit (1989)
Red Poppy (1991)
The Power of Love (1991)
The Winterberry (1992) also appeared as: Variant: The Winterberry (1992): Variant: The Winterberry (2019)
Forty at the Kiosk (1992)
Fizz (1992)
Extreme Feminism (1993)
Presentes (1993)
Whilst Slept the Sauropod (1993) also appeared as: Translation: Unterdessen schlief der Brontosaurus [German] (1993)
Just Do It (1994)
Would He Do Woody? (1994)
The Enemies of Nickel City (1994)
Birdie (1994) with Mike Resnick
Drainage (1994)
Giving Head (1994)
The Sweet, Sad Love Song of Fred & Wilma (1994) with Mike Resnick
Unto the Valley of Day-Glo (1994)
Alien Radio (1995) with Mike Resnick
Diddling with Grandmother’s Iron Maiden (1995)
Working Stiff (1995) with Mike Resnick
Squonking (1995) with Mike Resnick
Black Hole (1995)
Pleasantly Pink (1995) with Mike Resnick
The Joy of Hats (1995) with Mike Resnick
Algorithm & Blues (1996) with Jack Nimersheim
Dao De Qing by Lao Tzu (1996)
The Most Beautiful Girl Alive (1996) with Mike Resnick
The Soldier and His Dead Companion (1997) Crime Through Time
Mission 51-L (1997)
The Land That God Forgot (1997) with Jack Nimersheim
Fat Cat on a Hat (1998)
She Might Have Been Yesterday (1998) [by Nicholas A. DiChario]: Variant: Carp Man (1998) [only as by Nick DiChario]
The Arrows of Godly Passion (1998) with Mike Resnick
Fly-By Aliens (1999) with Mike Resnick
Movin’ On (1999)
Sarajevo (1999): Translation: Sarajevo [Spanish] (2001)
The Color of God’s Mistress (1999)
Fascinatin’ Rhythm (2000) with Mike Resnick
The Fighting 35th’s Last Stand at the Dolores Proud Apple Valley School for the Blind (2000) with Mike Resnick
8-3-oh (2001) Death Dines at 8:30
The One-Half Boy (2002)
Dragonhead (2003)
Zolo and the Jelly Ship (2003)
Sweaters (2003): Sudden Stories: The Mammoth Book of Miniscule Fiction (Mammoth Books): Reprinted: New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, (W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2018)
Where the Wildflowers Bloom (2004): Death Dines In (Berkley Books)
The Academy of Humanity (2006)
Top 10 Headlines, Rochester, NY, 2034 (2009): 2034: Writing Rochester’s Futures
Blind Spot (2010) with Rick Wilber
Barbie Marries the Jolly Fat Baker (2011)
Creator of the Cosmos Job Interview Today (2013)
Stitches (2016)
Giovanni’s Tree (2017)
The Sweater (2017)
Of Love and Olives (2018)
The Baron and His Floating Daughter (2018)
Bella and the Blessed Stone (2019)
The Sin-Eaters (2019)
Before Blindness (2019)
Sky and the Wheelchair (2019)
La Regina Ratto (2020)
Coffee and Donuts (Fall 2021) Ovunque Siamo
Animale Dei Morti (2022)
Ciccio and the Wood Sprite (2022)
Plays
The Goodbye Bar and Grill (2002): Short play performed at Geva Theater, Next Stage
Taboo (2005): Short play performed at Geva Theater, Next Stage
Non-Fiction
Nightfall (1990): Book Review: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Best in Science Fiction (1990): Book review: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
The End of the Earth (1991): Book review: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Introduction: Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge (1994): Book introduction
Surrealistic Fudge (1996): Essay/recipe: Serve It Forth: Cooking with Anne McCaffery
Introduction (Magic Feathers: The Mike & Nick Show) (2000): Book and story introduction
Death Dines at 8:30: Book introduction
Conversations with Octavia Butler (2004): Author interview with Octavia E. Butler
Just Ask the Dust (2007): Book review: Philosophy Now, Issue 62
Soon I will be Invincible (2009): Book review: Philosophy Now, Issue 73
Revolutionary Road (2009) Book review: Philosophy Now, Issue 75
Robert J. Sawyer (2010): Author interview: Philosophy Now, Issue 80
Not So Strange Bedfellows (2011): Essay: Philosophy Now, Issue 85
Introduction: A Little Knowledge by Mike Resnick (2012): Story introduction
Science Fiction Awards Database
For a list of award nominations and mentions, visit the SFADB.
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