Mark Antony Rossi

Poet, Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Author's Bio

Born 4/3/65  Hoboken, NJ,  USAF veteran, University of Maryland (West Germany) BS Political Science, Inducted Marquis Who's Who in America 2004, Author 15 titles, poetry, fiction, philosophy and science, Wrote major paper on writing as therapy, taught therapy writing for military veterans at VA, speaker on veterans causes, mental health and bioethics, host/producer of Strength To Be Human, literary podcast on the Podbean Network.

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Journals:
Another Chicago Magazine
,
Antigonish Review
,
Blast Furnace
,
Book Smuggler's Den
,
Deep Water Literary Journal
,
Hollins Critic
,
Indian Periodical
,
Newark Review
,
Red Rock Review
,
Sandy River Review
,
The Transnational
,
Toad Suck Review

Fiction

Journals:
Aphelion Webzine
,
Black Heart Magazine
,
Coe Review
,
EXPOUND
,
Gravel
,
Iconoclast
,
Journal of Microliterature
,
Mad Swirl
,
On the Rusk
,
Philadelphia Stories
,
Rue Scribe
,
Satire
,
Scarlet Leaf Review
,
The Literary Yard
,
Writing Raw

Poetry

Journals:
Ariel Chart
,
Bareback Magazine
,
Big Windows Review
,
Crux Literary Journal
,
Dime Show Review
,
Dirty Chai
,
Entropy
,
Five 2 One Magazine
,
Horror Sleaze Trash
,
The Muse
,
Route 7 Review
,
Snapdragon
,
Uprising Review
Prizes won: 

Golden Poet Award, Quill Press 1985

E. Alstrair Short Fiction Prize, 1990

Nomination -- Kennedy Center American College Theatre Award --1995

Nomination  --- Pushcart Prize 1999 -- Poetry

NJ Playwright of the Year Award 1999, BWG

Science Book of the Year, 2004,  World Bioethics 

Nomination — Best of the Net 2019 — Poetry 

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Edgar Allan Poe, Vaclav Havel, C.S. Lewis, JRR Tolkien, Harlan Ellison, James Baldwin, Octavia Butler, Clive Barker
What I'm reading now: 
Wonderful Wasteland and other natural disasters by Elido La Torre Lagares, Information Technology Essentials by Eric Frick, The Human Condition by Aldous Huxley

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Italian American
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Hoboken, NJ
New Jersey
Raised in: 
Hoboken, NJ
New Jersey
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Last update: Jun 24, 2021