Joseph Maiolo

Joseph Maiolo (Grad ’68) has retired after a 44-year career teaching college writing. For the last 38 years, he has taught fiction writing and literature at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. In honor of his retirement, the UMD College of Liberal Arts has established the Julie & Joseph Maiolo fund to assist deserving students in creative endeavors. Colder by the Lake, the comedy theater company of Duluth, celebrated Mr. Maiolo’s retirement with a May 15, 2014, performance of Mr. Maiolo’s radio-stage play, The Error of the Rings.

Joseph Maiolo (Grad ’68) published a book of stories, An Arch of Birches and Other Stories, in December 2013. The book completes the four-volume set of Mr. Maiolo’s short fiction that includes Boy Youth Man: A Triptych of Novellas, Three Frays from Mallorca: And Four Stories and Saint Matthew in Appalachia: And Other Stories. Several of the tales in the new collection are set in northern Minnesota, where Maiolo has taught fiction writing and literature since 1976.

Joseph Maiolo has a new book of stories coming out on December 19, 2013, entitled “An Arch of Birches and Other Stories.” Please visit www.overcoatbooks.com for more information. “An Arch of Birches and Other Stories” completes the four-volume set of Joseph Maiolo’s short fiction that includes the previously published books Boy • Youth • Man: A Tryptich of Novellas, Three Frays from Mallorca and Four Stories, and Saint Matthew in Appalachia and Other Stories. Several of the tales in this collection are set in Northern Minnesota, where Maiolo has taught fiction writing and literature since 1976.