Sam Chiarelli author, in front of dinosaur mural
Sam Chiarelli sitting a table laughing during book signing

Sam Chiarellii

Sam Chiarelli has an MFA in creative writing from Wilkes University and blogs at This Day in Dinosaurs. His work appears in Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies and Longridge Review.

He's been a dinophile for more than 25 years and has dug for Mesozoic fossils in New Jersey and Colorado.

Chiarelli resides in Pittston, Pennsylvania.

Sam Chiarelli’s travelogue will awaken your inner child and make you fall in love with dinosaurs all over again.
— Steve Brusatte, paleontologist & NYT best-selling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs