User:Belo Cipriani

I write both creative non-fiction and short fiction across several genres with the help of adaptive technology. To read and edit, I use a desktop application for the blind called JAWS and a talking dictionary device called Franklin. I was born in Guatemala City to a Brazilian father and an Italian mother and am fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. My father’s work with nonprofits and my mother’s passion for the study of herbalism took me to Brazil, Peru, Mexico, and Canada in my early childhood. At the age of seven, my family relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area.

I am a Lambda Literary Fellow, Literary Death Match champion and I hold a Masters Degree in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing from Notre Dame de Namur University, where I studied under award winning poet Jacqueline Berger and fiction writer Kerry Dolan. I am heavily involved with the San Francisco literary community and a supporter of Litquake, The California Writers Club, and a contributing writer for Bay Area publications. Me and my guide dog Madge still live in San Francisco.