
Emilio Iasiello is an author and screenwriter. Books available at http://amzn.to/1jh09sy. Info on filmed screenplays available at http://imdb.to/1bdsqvJ Emilio Iasiello authored the 2013 anthology of short stories Why People Do What They Do and the 2008 book Chasing the Green. He has published short fiction and poetry in numerous academic and literary journals. His stories have appeared in Buffalo Spree Magazine, The Larcom Review, Oasis, and Krater Quarterly, and his poems have appeared in the New York Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, The California Quarterly, The Washington Review, and The Wilshire Review, among others. An avid screenwriter, he has optioned several screenplays, three of which have been produced into films: Saint Christopher (2002), P.J. (2008), and Chasing the Green (2009). Chasing the Green won the Award for Excellence in Filmmaking at the 2010 Canada International Film Festival and the Best Supporting Actress in a Feature Film Award at the 2009 Los Angeles Action on Film International Film Festival. P.J. received the Best Actress Award in the 2008 Miami Underground Film Festival. A fourth screenplay, Dead of Knight, is currently in post-production. A devotee of the theatre, Emilio has had his stage plays produced in Baltimore, MD; Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY; and London, UK.