[1] His poem "Mahler in New York" won the 2008 RATTLE Poetry Prize.

[2] He has been a finalist for the Missouri Review Editors' Prize[3] and the Times Literary Supplement Poetry Competition, among other honors.

In 2015, Fasano published Vincent, a book-length poem based very loosely on the 2008 killing of Tim McLean by Vince Li on a Greyhound Bus near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, on the Trans Canada Highway.

Fasano's first novel, The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing, was published in 2020 to critical acclaim.

[14][15][16] In 2013, the literary magazine Polutona released a selection of his poems in Russian translation.