About Me
My name is Jacob Piazza. I graduated from Hamilton College in 2024 as a creative writing and history major. These passions come together in my current novel project.
Beyond authorship, I plan to pursue a career in education and research. I am currently attending a MA program in history at The University of Warwick and hope to begin a PhD in the coming years. I have previously taught high school history. Within my work, I am fascinated by the role that ideology, culture, language, and law (whatever you choose to call it) play in our society. I firmly believe that education and art, wherever they take place, are the two institutions that will allow humanity to reach the new humanism spoken of by so many.
My Writing Philosophy
Following in the tradition of great novels like The Martian Chronicles, Infinite Jest, and Slaughterhouse-Five, and more recent novels like No One is Talking About This and Cloud Cuckoo Land my work attempts to examine the humanity and history as the tick inspects the dog. Periodically, I may write about characters who have shaped this world, but, in respect to the quotidian experience of the average person, I tell stories that may seem unimportant. However, to me, the moments between a young girl and her robot friend tell us much more about humanity than the maniacal ravings of a mad scientist trying to destroy the world. And, certainly, you cannot have one without the other.
