He is interim director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center, visiting assistant professor of poetry at Cleveland State University, and the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts Program (NEOMFA) program.
[5] His honors include a 2008 Florida Book Award (a bronze medal in poetry),[6] a fellowship from Sewanee Writers' Conference, and a Kingsbury Fellowship from Florida State University.
He is creator and editor of two literary websites, La Fovea[7] and Poems by Heart.
[8] Giampietro earned an MA from Washington College, an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and a PhD in English from Florida State University.
He lives in Farmington, Maine with his wife, the potter, Cherie Giampietro[9] and two children.