John Champagne

John Champagne (1960) was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After attending three different undergraduate schools, he finally finished his degree and is now a proud graduate of the Thomas Hunter Honors Program, where he studied with Louise DeSalvo and Audre Lorde and completed his first novel. He subsequently received an MA in Film Studies from New York University and a Ph D in Critical and Cultural Studies from the University of Pittsburgh. Champagne's work traverses a variety of genres, including fiction, literary nonfiction, cultural criticism, and poetry. Dividing his time between Erie, where he is a professor of English at Penn State, and Perugia, he is married to Richard Krone.