Lee Passarella teaches English at Georgia Perimeter College and acts as senior literary editor for Atlanta Review magazine. Passarella received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in Lawrenceville, Georgia, with wife Candace and a Shih tzu named Peeches.
Passarella’s poetry has appeared in Chelsea, Cream City Review, Pudding, Louisville Review, The Formalist, Antietam Review, Gaia, Journal of the American Medical Association, The Literary Review, Edge City Review, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Snake Nation Review, Slant, Cortland Review, and many other periodicals and ezines. "Swallowed up in Victory," his long narrative poem based on the American Civil War, was published by White Mane Books in 2002. It has been praised by poet Andrew Hudgins as a work that is “compelling and engrossing as a novel.” Passarella’s poetry collection, The Geometry of Loneliness (David Robert Books), appeared in 2006.