George Christopher Pizzo  was (born on February 11, 1957 in Queens, NY.) He is the youngest son of George Pizzo and Dorothy Izzo. George is also the nephew of the late Silvio Izzo whom wrote lyrics to songs such as "Kid Stuff " which was recorded by the McGuire sisters in the early sixties on Coral Records.

George is an American Poet/Author of  the novel, "Beyond the Rainbow." He also has two poetry chapbooks published by Wasteland Press entitled, "Freedom Writer" and "A Poet Among Us."

EARLY LIFE
George spent the first six years of his life living in the East New York section of Brooklyn in his grandparent's (on his mother's side) Brownstone. At age six his parents purchased a home and moved him and his family into the Wakefield section of South Ozone Park, NY in Queens where he currently resides today. His grandfather, (on his father's side) Giuseppe Pizzo owned a successful sweater factory in the East New York section of Brooklyn which is now the site of a public school. In August 1962 his grandfather was found dead in his home alone while his second wife Concetta Pizzo was vacationing in Italy. His body was discovered by George's mother (then three months pregnant) and uncle Al three days later. The circumstances of his grandfathers death remains a mystery today since it was believed that he had a lot of hidden money inside a safe in the basement of the house which was never found. George states that from that day it changed his family's life forever where his mother miscarried and father remained bitter towards his family for the remainder of his life.

His parents worked full time and George and his brother were cared for by his grandmother (on his mother's side) whom lived with them.. George attended St. Anthony of Padua Catholic grammar School where he was left back in first grade. In sixth grade he states he failed and should have been left back again, but was promoted to seventh grade. George believes that his teacher, Sister Arlene passed him because she felt bad as she left the convent that summer as many nuns did during that time. George believes that his struggles all throughout his grammar school years were due to Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) which was not heard of at the time. George was not the most popular kid in town (he was teased a lot by the other kids) and he often would be a loner and make up stories. Through this he become interested in writing journals. In 1972 he entered Catholic High School, St. Pascal Baylon, in St. Albans, Queens, NY where he surprisingly excelled. Here he was inspired to write and received a Creative Writing award in 1973 from Read Magazine. He was also in the National Forensic League where he competed in Oratorical competitions with other Catholic High Schools in the area. In 1975, his third year of High School George graduated a year earlier putting him at the same age group as his peers. His class was the last to graduate since the High School closed down. He entered Queens College in Flushing, NY Queens that fall and took writing classes where he wrote poetry and short stories. To encourage students writings his English Professor would publish them in monthly newsletters entitled, "Freedom Writer" which later became the inspiration to the title of his first chapbook published by Wasteland Press. Although he loved his college life, he found it difficult to keep up and found it unnecessary to take courses such as Math and Science which he had no interest in. He decided to drop out of college after his first year to pursue full time employment in Manhattan

PROFESSIONAL CAREER
After pursuing many jobs he landed a position at Cunningham & Walsh Advertising on Madison Avenue in 1979. He ended up in their Traffic/Production Department as a "Traffic Coordinator" where he scheduled ads into publications and assisted the Creative Team with paste-ups. It was here that he was introduced and inspired by the Creative Team to write advertising copy and to broaden his writing skills. After a few years working at Cunningham & Walsh they were sold to another Advertising Agency and soon after George was let go. Not knowing where else to go or what to do next without a College degree, he ended up accepting a position in the Health Insurance field where he remains today.

PERSONAL LIFE
In 1984 George married Loretta Yiannitsis after a long courtship and in 1985 their first child, Andrew Bradford Pizzo was born. In August 1989 his wife miscarried and in October 1990 another son was born, Adam Thomas Pizzo.

OTHER ACTIVITIES
It wasn't until the mid nineties that George took more interest in writing and began creating new poems and ideas for novels. Finally in April  2003 his first chapbook of poems were published entitled, "Freedom Writer." Here these poems are a collection of old poems written from his High School and college days and of sentiments which he wrote soon after the passing of his mother in 1996. In December the same year, another chapbook book was published, also by Wasteland Press, "A Poet Among Us " which George expresses all of his thoughts, emotions and writes of people, places and things in his life. In March 2005 his first novel," Beyond the Rainbow" was published. He explains this novel was inspired by his cousin Micki Pagno's book, "The Road to Jude" and was written within six months. George wrote the last chapter first then wrote the remainder of the book leading up to last chapter. He also explains that during the writing of this his father had passed away in ( December 2004) and the book reflects that in his writing. His poem "War" has also been published as an anthology entitled, "The Silent Journey" by the International Society of Poets. George made several guest appearances on the Manhattan cable network show, "Uniquely You Now" (channel 67) where he read poems from his chapbooks. Blue Mountain Arts has also considered some of his poems for publication to be used on their greeting cards.