Johnny Taranto is a co-founder and co-director of Hypergraphic Writers Workshop. He lives in Harlem and works as a visual artist and author of creative fiction. Recent efforts have sought to explore such themes as contemporary American urban life as experienced by lofty aspirants from blue-collar backgrounds, as well as heritage, and isolation within the -topian world; neither dys-, nor u-.
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