John M GlionnaJOHN M. GLIONNA is a writer drawn to the edges of place and experience-where landscapes and lives grow raw, revealing their truest selves. A former Los Angeles Times correspondent who reported from Asia and the American West, he now writes literary nnfiction that illuminates the rugged, the overlooked, and the unexpected. johnglionna.com.He is the author of Outback Nevada: Real Stories from the Silver State (University of Nevada Press, 2022), No Friday Night Lights: Reservation Football on the Edge of America (University of Nebraska Press, 2024), and Rebels and Outliers: Real Stories from the American West (University of Nevada Press, 2025).His work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Outside, and The California Sunday Magazine, among many others, and has been included in The Best American Sports Writing. Several of his stories have been optioned for film.Born into a large Italian American family in suburban Syracuse, New York, he has spent years exploring his long-overlooked Italianità-a quest that, in 2024, took him to Rome as a fellow at the Italian Diaspora Studies Summer Seminar, sponsored by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute. There, he deepened a personal project-a return to southern Italy to trace his family roots buried in the soil of memory and heritage.He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Lily, gathering the threads of ordinary and extraordinary lives alike-always in search of the next tale worth telling. Read More Read Less