WRITING AWARDS
- The Best American Short Stories, 2023, Nomination, "The Thief of Oakland Hills"
- Curt Johnson Fiction Award, 2015, Finalist, "What Things, These Things, Stir the Heart"
- Pushcart Prize, 2001, Nomination, "Angus in Extremis"
Joe De Quattro is an American fiction writer and Lecturer in Writing at the University of California, Berkeley. He has recently completed writing the 63 page pilot episode to his new mafia series, set in California and New York.
Joe De Quattro's short stories have been published in a number of literary magazines including Italian Americana, Bayou Magazine, Beloit Fiction Journal, The Carolina Quarterly, The Los Angeles Review, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Mystery Tribune, The Writing Disorder, Five2One Magazine, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, Turnrow and Carve. His first fiction publication, "Angus in Extremis", appeared in San Francisco's Oyster Boy Review and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and his most recent, "The Thief of Oakland Hills", which appeared in Bayou Magazine, Fall 2022, was nominated for The Best American Short Stories, 2023. He has an MFA in Fiction from Bennington College.
- Joe De Quattro has new fiction, "A Redwood in Wartime", in New Letters, April 2025
- "Following Calvino" is out now in the summer issue of Italian Americana
- Joe De Quattro's "The Thief of Oakland Hills" published in Bayou Magazine
- Joe De Quattro (@JoeDeQuattro) · Twitter
- Joseph De Quattro at University of California Berkeley - RateMyProfessors.com
- I provide ghostwriting services for Ghostwriters Central