Marco Polio

William Zink is a writer of "social realist" fiction, as Andrei Codrescu describes, and poet. His novels include The Hole, Ballad of the Confessor, and Ohio River Dialogues. Praised by Booklist, Donald Ray Pollock, Dagoberto Gilb, David Giffels, The Main Street Rag and others, he is as diverse as he is forthright. With his latest novel, Pieta, Zink establishes himself as one of the truly important independent voices to emerge on the American literary scene in recent years.