Jason M.

JASON J. MARCHI has sold over 800 articles, stories, poems, and essays to magazines and newspapers, and won over a dozen awards—most recently from Literary Classics, Independent Publishers of New England, and the Society of Professional Journalists. In November 2011 Mr. Marchi’s first children's book, The Legend of Hobbomock: The Sleeping Giant, was published in hardcover, which became a Barnes & Noble regional best-seller. During the 17 years that Mr. Marchi worked for McGraw-Hill Higher Education he also founded and directed the not-for-profit New Century Writer Awards (NCWA) contest that operated in close association with Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope: All-Story magazine. Mr. Marchi is also credited with discovering the early literary talents of Joseph Hill (Heart Shaped Box, Horns) through the NCWA contest. Mr. Marchi was closely mentored by Ray Bradbury between 2000 and 2009, after the two had become pen pals in 1980.