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mark barkawitz

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Mark Barkawitz has earned local and national awards for his fiction, poetry, essay, and screenwriting. His work has appeared in newspapers (L.A. Herald-Examiner, Pasadena Star News & Weekly, Conscience), magazines (Arroyo Seco Journal, University Mag., Simply 4 Pets, Senior Class, Our USA Mag.),literary journals and anthologies (Abraxas, Sojourns, Zyzzyva, Blank Gun Silencer, Fingerprints, Paws & Tales, Sport Literate, Mediphors, Me Three, Illness & Grace-Terror & Transformation, Unhoused Voices: Granting Change for the Homeless, And We Write: Surviving Cancer; Let the Healing Begin), underground ‘zines (Inky Blue, Monkeywire), and is posted on numerous websites (sportliterate.org, flatmancrooked.com, thirstforfire.com, farmhousemagazine.com,voidmagazine.com, fictioncollective.blogspot.com, chimaeraserials.com, soulscribe.com, common-line.com, censoredpoets.blogspot.com, chicklitreview.org,broowaha.com, halvingthebaby.com, comedyquick.com, thewriteplaceatthewritetime.org, milksugarliterature.com, stirfrymagazine.org, rustytruck.wordpress.com,vscorpiozine.wordpress.com). He has IMDb feature film credits as writer, actor, & associate pro-ducer for “Turn of the Blade” (NorthStar Ent.) and as Kiefer Sutherland’s suicidal father in “The Killing Time” (New World Pictures). He coached a championship track team of student/athletes and ran the 2001 L.A. Marathon in 3:44:42. He lives with his wife, has two kids, and occasionally breeds a litter of golden retriever puppies (Woof Goldens) in their Pasa-dena, CA backyard.

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