Frank DiPalermo received his MFA in fiction from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. In 2020 two of his poems were finalists in the Steve Kowit Poetry Prize, a flash hybrid piece appeared in Ruminatemagazine, a short story appeared in Beyond Words (an anthology of queer fiction), and two essays appeared in The Whole Alphabet (an anthology of essays by queer authors). He is currently at work on his novel, Singing in Tongues, about a queer young man born into a Catholic Charismatic family. Life Sucks is his return to the stage after a long, long absence.