Loretta Giacoletto divides her time between the St. Louis Metropolitan area and Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks where she concentrates on writing fiction while her husband cruises the waters for bass and crappie. Their five children have left the once chaotic nest but occasionally return for her to-die-for ravioli and roasted peppers topped with garlic-laden bagna càuda.
Loretta's has completed three novels, two mainstream and one family saga, all filled with outrageous characters caught up in problems they must take responsibility for having created. One mainstream novel features a young drifter whose troubled past and deadly encounters hinder his search for the father he has yet to meet. The other, a soccer mom suspected of killing her son's coach, a man who had more enemies than friends. Loretta's generational saga follows a family of earthy Italian/American who learn to thrive or survive through a series of deceptions, the worst against those they love most.
In addition to the horror anthologies, Damned in Dixie and Hell in the Heartland, her short stories have appeared inpublications such as The MacGuffin, Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine, The Scruffy Dog Review, Allegory, and Literary Mama among others.
An avid traveler, she has visited numerous countries in Europe and Asia but Italy remains her favorite, especially the Piemonte area in the alpine north from where her family originates.
