Dino Enrique Piacentini grew up in Los Angeles, lived in San Francisco for twenty-three years, and has also, at various times, set down stakes in Houston, Oaxaca, Champaign, and Prague. His writing has been published in The Massachusetts Review, Pembroke, The Masters Review, Confrontation, The Globe & Mail, The Atticus Review, and Gulf Coast, among other places. Currently, he lives in Denver with his mini-Bernedoodle and full-sized husband and teaches creative writing at Lighthouse Writers Workshop and the University of Denver. Before becoming a writer, he worked in the visual arts at such organizations as The Mexican Museum, Yerba Buena Center, and Galería de la Raza. Invasion of the Daffodils is his debut novel.

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