Bonomo has both a MA and PhD in Creative Writing from Ohio UniversityHe is currently an Associate Professor of English at Northern Illinois University and a music columnist for The Normal SchoolHe has had notable essays placed in Best American Essays (2015, 2013, 2011, 2010 2006)His book AC/DC’s Highway to Hell was selected as a 2010 Music Book of the Year by Outsideleft MagazineHis essays, book reviews and prose poems have been published in The Rumpus, Brevity, TriQuarterly Online, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Georgia Review and much more