The Waiting Room

Fiction. Winner of the Miami University Press Novella Contest for 2005, THE WAITING ROOM is a compact tale of alienation, abandonment, love and transgression. Its protagonist, a street performer and self-employed translator, spends long hours as a living statue. THE WAITING ROOM is not simply a narrative, as in a story told, but a work that attempts to depict the fragile state of reality the style and tonality of the writing itself.

Albert Sgambati is a native of New York City. He divides time between the U.S. and Latin America, where he freelances as a film consultant, features writer, translator and editor. During the 1990s, he worked as a beat reporter for The News, in Mexico City. His writing has appeared in a range of magazines. His poetry has been included in Anthology of American Poets 1980's, Big Scream, and is featured in All Roads...But This One, a limited edition from Luddite Kingdom Press, San Francisco (2006). The Waiting Room is his first book.