Connie Fillippelli is a graduate student in Columbia College's Fiction Writing Program.  She worked as a medical illustrator for over ten years.  She was a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers as a video technician, working in television and film.

She recently started Liquid Press, a publisher's cooperative, using digital technology to publish trade paperbacks.

Currently, she is editing her first novel, Frail Heart, a vendetta mystery, which should be available at Amazon.com and bookstores in the fall of 1999.  She is also co-authoring a novel about a female serial killer entitled, Killer Within.   In the summer, she will finish The Belly of Hell, a story about a serial killer priest.