Full Name: Francis George Capitanio
Hometown:
Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA
Biography: F. G. Capitanio was born on June 22, 1981 in Stoneham, Massachusetts
to a Chilean Mother and Italian Father. He was raised in Arlington, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, until the age of six,
and grew up living with his older sister, his parents and his maternal grandmother. By the time his family moved to Port St.
Lucy, Florida, he had spent six years developing into a talkative, though at times reclusive, boy. His family remained in
Florida for only two years and he was whisked away back to the state of his birth and Framingham, the town he would call home
until the end of high school.
Throughout middle school and high school he was very successful writing
both fiction and non-fiction assignments, though the thought of being a writer did not enter his mind until well into college.
Beside school work, writing in journals became an outlet for his creative abilities and also for his emotional thoughts and
inner musings. Academically, high school was a highlight for him. At Framingham High School, he participated in writing competitions
and was chosen for the National Honor Society. After graduation he attended the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and
college kept him on a similarly successful academic track. He found himself growing quite stimulated by his studies, and in
the evening, he often stayed up late into the night, reading books he found in the college library, and sometimes aloud to
his dormitory companions. Much to his amusement, even though he had yet to write anything that was to be published, his great
love of literature and his continually well-received written assignments helped him acquire a reputation as a writer. This
reputation provided him a star by which to steer his visionary ship, and he began to see the possibility of just such a future
on the horizon.
Though carefree as a young boy, these later years had brought to him trouble and heartache
his early life failed to anticipate. Intellectually stimulating as school was for him, emotionally it was something else.
He often dealt with serious depression, which lasted into college where it became coupled with a self-destructive lifestyle,
further fueling his emotional state. Through this turmoil he searched for answers and for meaning, exploring various religions
and coming to an intellectual acceptance of Christianity his senior year in high school. It was not until the middle of college,
however, that a spiritual experience opened his eyes and heart to the reality of the faith, lifted his depression, and began
a journey down the road to self-fulfillment and purpose. His desire to demonstrate to an apparently cynical and hopeless
society that life can have joy, peace, and hope despite the struggles which are found in it, pushes him to pursue writing
today as a meaningful impression through which to express his heart.
Successes
2006 Writer's Cafe, BSC
The Bridge vol. 3 2006, literary journal
2006 Utmost Christian Writers Competition, honorable mention
SP Quill Quarterly, April 2006
Apollo's Lyre, May 2008
The Voice of the Irish,
in Divine Intervention (Tharseo)
"Clouds sail on a sea of constant blue,
While day after day the sun rises,
Then falls to the onslaught of the moon.
And like them, I just go on, drifting.
Drifting like the colored maple leaves
Floating down the frosted wood-streams
Of Bourne Farm, and yellow fields of straw
Adrift upon the autumn breeze,
Before the coming of a bitter snow."
- from The Floating World
by F. G. Capitanio
Click below to read Into the Wardrobe, the author's short memoir on deciding to pursue a career in writing.
