Harry Trumfio was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois and
now resides with his wife, Lorie in Arlington Heights, Illinois. They have four
children, six grandchildren and one great grandchild. He is a former public school
superintendent and served as the Chairman of the Department of Education at
Benedictine University.
Harry took his first writing course at Roosevelt
University’s Institute for Continued
Learning in the fall of 2004 and won recognition from the Arts Unlimited
Community Writing Contest for a short story entitled, “It Happened at
Riverview” and a poem entitled, “Haunting,” based on his observations made
during Martin Luther King’s “Freedom March” August 5, 1966.
He currently is a study group coordinator for the Institute
for Continued Learning at Roosevelt University. Harry has also served as a
consultant to the Alternative Certification Program for Teachers of Mathematics
and Science at Benedictine University and as a writer and in-service program
developer for Teacher Today Publications,
Inc.