Mike Figliola is a writer, television/radio reporter, and producer who has called New York City-specifically Queens-his home for more than thirty years. He has written hundreds of poems and has read them on a regular basis at such venues as the famed Cornelia Street Cafe in NYC with actor John Ventimiglia and poet Frank Messina, and has been a featured poet in the Brooklyn Poet Laureate's Brooklyn Poetry Outreach in Park Slope Brooklyn. He has served as a producer, writer, and reporter in radio and TV on both local and national platforms.