Rich Agnello is a former American Fiction Awards Sports category Finalist, ScreenCraft Short Story Film Adaptation Semifinalist, and ScreenCraft Cinematic Prose Quarterfinalist whose works also include an online published poetic short story in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Arts and Sciences.  He has been previously cited as a monthly featured author for the Catholic Literary Arts group, and his letters to the editor and featured editorials have been published in eleven newspapers across six states including the Rochester Business Journal, the Raleigh NC News and Observer, and the Dallas Morning News.

Agnello's books include the select youth soccer-Catholic devotion novel Adoring Andy, the urban young adult-jazz novel Jojay and the Joy of Anyway inspired by the message of Mother Teresa, and the little league baseball--behavioral health novel Going to Williamsport, as well as the lay Catholic theology guides Our Marian Pulpit:  From a Lector's Soul House for liturgical training and renewal, and A Tenth Station Confession for applying the Stations of the Cross to the Sacrament of Confession.

Rich is a native of Webster, New York east of Rochester, and a cum laude graduate of Marquette University's Diederich College of Communication (BA-Speech) and the University of Denver's Daniels College of Business (MPA-Public Administration).  He also holds the PMP, ITIL, CTAL-TM, and CTFL designations from his professional career, mainly during thirteen years with EDS/HP and seven years with the Federal government.

Agnello resides in Worthington, Ohio north of Columbus with his wife of twenty-five years Theresa (Cecil) Agnello.