Tom D'Egidio
Raised by his Abruzzi grandparents, Tom D’Egidio is originally from Philadelphia. A poet, novelist, and translator (of Italian poetry), he is a director of the Browning Society in New York.
He recently completed a novel, titled Mondo Scungilli, a coming-of-age story about a young Italian-American from Philadelphia trying to make his way in the New York art world and find love in 1980s downtown Manhattan.
His poetry book, The Enigma of Arrival, is available from UndergroundBooks, and the bilingual edition of Years of Pilgrimage /Años de peregrinaje is his second published collection of poems.
In Years of Pilgrimage, D'Egidio sticks to an Ars Poetica of his own that he develops through the book, accompanying his lines with abundant references to Dante, Pound, and also to his personal encounters with such characters as Basquiat and the poets from the Beat Generation.
Tom D’Egidio has lived in San Francisco, Philadelphia, New York, Rome, and Quito, and has returned to New York for the past year (2025).
