David Ciminello

Adjunct Fellow at the Attic Institute

David Ciminello is a New York based writer and educator. His fiction has appeared in the Lambda Literary Award winning anthology Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City, Lumina, Underwater New York, and on broadcastr. His poetry has appeared in Poetry Northwest. As a professional screenwriter David has developed projects with Aaron Spelling Productions, All Girl Productions, Sony Pictures, HBO, and Twentieth Century Fox. His original screenplay Bruno (2000) was directed by Shirley MacLaine. He is currently working on a novel manuscript; a queer journey through WWII era New York and New Jersey involving tomatoes, cooking, Coney Island, a missing baby, a runaway gay boy, and a burlesque queen.