Joseph Roccasalvo

[4][5] Roccasalvo applied to and gained admission to the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1972 where he resided at the Center of the Study of World Religions.

[9] His academic publications during his early career were in exploring the religious contrasts and correspondences between the two philosophies of Moheyan and Kamalaśīla in the Council of Lhasa.

[10] He served as a priest at Loyola University Chicago where he was also an adjunct associate professor of comparative religion for the summer session at the Institute of Pastoral Studies from 1979 through 1999.

[14] According to his website, he has published five novels including Fire in a Windless Place, Chartreuse, Portrait of a Woman, The Odor of Sanctity and The Devil’s Interval.

Two further novellas have been published: Island of the Assassin and Alina in Ecstasy; likewise, his collected poetry in Poems For Two Violins and It Comes in Tides.