John Pistelli

John Pistelli is a novelist and critic who wrote Major Arcana, published by Belt Publishing in 2025 (paperback released April 22, 2025). The novel began as a serial on his Substack before the print edition. It was picked up by Belt after the novelist Ross Barkan wrote about his self-published print edition. He has written four novels besides Major Arcana, along with short fiction, poetry, and literary and cultural criticism. He is also a longtime teacher with a Ph.D. in English. He lives in Pittsburgh, PA.