About Me
My name is Jacob Piazza, and I graduated from Hamilton College in 2024 as a creative writing and history major. These passions come together in my current novel project The Cicadas’ Parting Song.
Beyond authorship, I plan to pursue a career in education and may someday attend graduate school to earn a PhD. I am starting my career at a charter school in West Harlem. Within my work, I am fascinated by the role that ideology, culture, and law (whatever you choose to call it) play in our society. I firmly believe that education and art, wherever they take place, are the two institutions that will allow humanity to reach the new humanism spoken of by so many.
My Current Project
The Cicadas’ Parting Song tells the millennia-long story of humanity’s tumultuous journey after climate disasters undo the world order in the 21st century. Three world-changing events occur in the following century: 1. Humans make contact with aliens 2. Everything outside the solar system disappears. 3. A scientist creates seemingly sentient beings which come to be called Robots.
Following in the tradition of great novels like The Martian Chronicles, Infinite Jest, and Slaughterhouse-Five, my novels examine the story of this world as the tick inspects the dog. Periodically, characters appear who have shaped this world, but, in respect to the quotidian experience of the average person, I tell stories that may seem unimportant. However, to me, the moments between a young girl and her robot friend tell us much more about humanity than the maniacal ravings of a mad scientist trying to destroy the world. Yet, both appear, so I leave it to the reader to determine value.
