I've lived in Brooklyn all my life except for the years I spent at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. For nearly 25 years I worked data entry in the wacky world of commodities on the NYMEX trading floor in Manhattan. I am now concentrating on writing full time. My literary influences are Dostoevsky and Henry Miller. My life influences are my mother and father, immigrants, and the Italian-American community in which I grew up.  

I've had 40 stories published in small press magazines. I contribute articles to buzzle.com. I have three books in print: novels Close to the Edge & Adjustments, and short story collection A Hitch in Twilight.

In January 2009 my second novel, Adjustments, was published by Water Forest Press. In July my short story collection, A Hitch in Twilight, was published by All Things That Matter Press.

Brief History of Author
Novels, stories, articles.

Vic Fortezza: Book, Blog at Amazon
Links to all three books and my blog on selling books on the streets of Brooklyn.

Buzzle.com
I've written several essays for Buzzle: "Self-publishing: One Man's Experience"/"Introduction to Giants"/"Dumb"/"Short Riff on a Pet Peeve"/"Tribute to a Classic"/"Mafia Fiction"/"It Pay$ To Learn"/"Religion and Philosophy in Rock"/"Brief Look at the Stream of Consciousness of a Middle Aged Man"