Jason J. Marchi

JASON J. MARCHI made his first professional sale, a poem, to Amazing Stories magazine in 1988. Since then Mr. Marchi has sold over 800 articles, stories, poems, and essays to magazines and newspapers, and won over a dozen awards--most recently from the Association of American Publishers REVERE Awards, the National Federation of Press Women, The Connecticut Press Club, the Shoreline Arts Alliance Tassy Walden Awards, and the Society of Professional Journalists.

In November 2010 Mr. Marchi's first collection of poems, Ode on a Martian Urn, was published as a trade paperback book, and a year later his first picture book, The Legend of Hobbomock: The Sleeping Giant, was published in hardcover. Hobbomock has been gaining steady approval from readers of all ages, and the book has been adopted for classroom use dozens of Connecticut elementary schools. The Legend of Hobbomock was recently recommended for the summer reading list by staff members at the Barnes & Noble stores in North Haven and Danbury, CT at the elementary school level.

During the 17 years that Mr. Marchi worked for McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, a higher education publishing company, he also founded and directed the not-for-profit New Century Writer Awards contest that operated for six years in close association with Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope:All-Story magazine. While New Century Writer operated over $65,000 was awarded to several dozen writers. Mr. Marchi is also credited with discovering the early literary talents of Joseph Hill (20th Century Ghost, Heart Shaped Box, Horns) when the New Century Writer Awards presented Mr. Hill with the first Ray Bradbury Short Story Fellowship in 2002.

Mr. Marchi himself was closely mentored by Ray Bradbury between 2000 and 2009, after the two had become pen pals in 1980. Mr. Marchi and Mr. Bradbury maintained their extraordinary friendship until Mr. Bradbury's death at the age of 91.

In 2015 Mr. Marchi began publishing his fantasy and horror short stories for readers aged 13+ in a Kindle Direct short book series titled Really Cool Story/Three Stories. Each new volume appears every two months.

Mr. Marchi reaches out to the world with his stories from his boyhood home in Guilford, Connecticut.