Robert Firpo-Cappiello (@RobFirpCapp) is a two-time Emmy nominee (for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series) and a Folio-award-winning magazine editor focusing on travel, hospitality, and health. His short fiction appears in the digital literary journal Roi Fainéant and he has performed his short stories, novellas, and songs at Freddy’s Bar, Rockwood Music Hall, St Lou Fringe, Dixon Place, Irvington Theater, Spark Theatre Festival NYC, Urban Stages, and Bad Theater Fest. Robert holds a Master of Music degree in composition from the San Francisco Conservatory, a BA in English from Colgate University (where his mentor was novelist Frederick Busch), and he made his show-business debut at the age of five on WOR-TV’s Romper Room. Robert is the author of the historical thriller LUCY LEARY’S CURIOSITIES, and is represented by Jill Marr, at Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency.