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Mark Antony Rossi [1]

Listed as: 
Poet, Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer
Public address: 
Atlanta, GA
Georgia US
Email: 
merlotmedicine@yahoo.com
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.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Favorite authors: 
Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Edgar Allan Poe, Vaclav Havel, C.S. Lewis, JRR Tolkien, Harlan Ellison, James Baldwin, Octavia Butler, Clive Barker
Twitter/X: 
@humanspiritnow
Born in: 
Hoboken, NJ
New Jersey
Raised in: 
Hoboken, NJ
New Jersey
RSS feed: 
http://strengthtobehuman.podbean.com/fee… [2]
Website: 
http://www.markantonyrossi.com [3]
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 

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
Identifies as: 
Italian American
Prefers to work with: 
Adults

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Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/mark_antony_rossi [2] http://strengthtobehuman.podbean.com/feed.xml [3] http://www.markantonyrossi.com