CRUEL SEASON

BOB CHIANESE

 

Robert Chianese, Ph. D., was professor of English at Cal State Northridge for forty years, where he taught literature and courses linking the humanities, arts, and the environment. He taught at the Ventura campus of CSUN for twenty years and was a founding faculty of what would become Cal State U Channel Islands. He won the CSUN Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award in 2004. He won a Mitchel Prize for Sustainable Strategies in 1979, and has been a Fulbright Senior Specialist to Bulgaria and China.He is recent past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science—Pacific Division, the first non-scientist to hold that position in the organization’s 100-year history, and the publisher of his recent book, Art Inspired by Science. He is a columnist for the American Scientist magazine, writing on the connections among science, the humanities and the environment.

 

Chianese has published numerous poems, which he often illustrates. They have appeared in rivertalk, Italian-Americana, Avocet, Art/Life, Where Icarus Falls. He has an artist’s book
of poems with photographs entitled Hall Canyon Suite and a chapbook, Bonfire & Dreams, and a collection of poems and photographs with art by Robert Engel, Uncommon Places. He maintains his eco-focused website at www.islandviewmedia.com.

 

Originally from Trenton, New Jersey, Chianese lives in Ventura, California with Paula, his partner for 50 years; they have two children and four grandchildren. 

 

www.islandviewmedia.com