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Roman Colombo earned an MFA in Fiction from Rosemont College in 2010, after completing his BA in English-Creative Writing from USF in 2008. He has been published in a variety of journals including thread, monkeybicycle, the Lit Garden, and The Rusty Nail. He also has pieces in the 2013 anthology Strangers of Different Ink and published for the ezines FlashFiction.net and TheWeeklyComicBookReview.com. Previously, he was the Lead Comics Editor for Comic Years.
He currently teaches at Bucks County Community College and writes as a freelancer.

His first novel, Trading Saints for Sinners was released by WragsInk in December 2013.

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	The Rusty Nail, April 2013 by Craig A. Hart (Goodreads Author) (Editor-in-Chief), Kimberly Nylen Hart (Associate Editor), Jim Meirose (Contributor) 4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Strangers of Different Ink by Roman Colombo (Goodreads Author), Cathy T. Colborn (Goodreads Author), Erik McKinley 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Book of Lost Tales, Part One (The History of Middle-Earth, #1)

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