Joe Amato(III)
Joe Amato's novels, nonfiction, and poetry have been reviewed widely, including the The New York Times and Los Angeles Review of Books. Amato and cowriter Kass Fleisher have written a number of screenplays, several of which have reached the semifinal rounds of the Nicholl Fellowship, Austin Film Festival, and Chesterfield Writer's Film Project screenplay competitions. Amato & Fleisher's gangster-buddy drama Trouble on the Way reached the quarterfinal round of the 2019 Nicholl competition, and their neo-Western crime drama Good Fences reached the semifinal round of the 2020 Austin competition.