Rocco Versaci

Rocco Versaci is an English professor at Palomar College (near San Diego, California), where he teaches a wide variety of composition, creative writing, and literature classes. He was raised in the Chicago suburb of Downers Grove, where he subsisted on a steady diet of television, movies, books, and his mother's lasagna. A lifelong comic book reader, he is the author of "This Book Contains Graphic Language: Comics as Literature" (Bloomsbury, 2007) and created a popular class on comics at his college. In the summer of 2010, he rode his bicycle, alone, across the country. He wrote about that experience as well as some others (he is a a two-time cancer survivor) in his second book, "That Hidden Road: A Memoir" (Apprentice House, 2016). He has two sons, only occasionally grumbles about how they're both taller than him, and lives in southern California.