Bernard Mendillo writes novels, memoirs, plays and newspaper columns. And he also works as a freelance editor and ghostwriter for those who need help writing a novel, a memoir or a screenplay. Mendillo has independently published three novels—Dancing Naked with the Devil, Marvin Piersoll and Electra 225.—and three memoirs—Football, Bella in America and Nuns! His novel Marvin Piersoll won the fiction category in the 2011 New York Book Festival Mendillo has had 18 productions of 11 full-length plays—two of them off-off-Broadway; and two others have received off-off-Broadway staged readings. He’s been produced regionally in Massachusetts, upstate New York and Los Angeles. Mendillo also has extensive journalism experience; he’s written more than 600 works of short fiction and feature articles and humor columns for the Providence Journal, Canton Journal, and Warwick Beacon. Mendillo grew up in Rhode Island; he studied writing at Brown University—where he earned a B.A. in English and an M.A. in Creative Writing/Playwrighting. Mendillo lives in Canton, Massachusetts.