Sam Bellotto Jr.

Sam Bellotto Jr. has been creating word puzzles nearly his entire adult life, since graduating from Long Island University in 1972. For the next 15 years he was a magazine editor in New York City, helming various business and consumer publications in divergent fields, from motorcycling to garbage collection to musical instruments. He now lives in upstate New York where he works full-time on word puzzles, and the occasional fiction. He is a frequent collaborator with puzzle gurus John M. Samson and Terry Stickels. He regularly contributes to a variety of popular puzzle markets. He is also owner and developer of Crossdown word puzzle game software. And he has recently published "Yellow Glad Days," a sci-fi / political satire in 28 chapters. He is currently re-launching his popular amateur science fiction magazine from the 1960s, "Perihelion," as a professional e-zine. www.PerihelionSF.com.