Mark Wisniewski

Mark Wisniewski's forthcoming novel WATCH ME GO (Penguin Putnam, January 22, 2015) has received praise from Salman Rushdie, Ben Fountain, Dan Woodrell, Heidi Pitlor, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, and THE HUFFINGTON POST. Mark's books also include the novels SHOW UP, LOOK GOOD and CONFESSIONS OF A POLISH USED CAR SALESMAN, as well as the collection of short stories ALL WEEKEND WITH THE LIGHTS ON and the book of narrative poems ONE OF US ONE NIGHT.

Mark's fiction has appeared in magazines such as THE SOUTHERN REVIEW, ANTIOCH REVIEW, NEW ENGLAND REVIEW, VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW, THE YALE REVIEW, BOULEVARD, THE SUN, and THE GEORGIA REVIEW, and has been anthologized in PUSHCART PRIZE and BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES.

His narrative poems have appeared in such venues as The IOWA REVIEW, PRAIRIE SCHOONER, POETRY INTERNATIONAL, ECOTONE, THE HOLLINS CRITIC, and POETRY.

He's been awarded two University of California Regents' Fellowships in Fiction, an Isherwood Fellowship in Fiction, and first place in competitions for the Kay Cattarula Award for Best Short Story, the Gival Press Short Story Award, and the Tobias Wolff Award.

Learn more about him at http://markwisniewski.net/index.html