Marc Palmieri is an assistant professor at Mercy College’s School of Liberal Arts in Dobbs Ferry, NY, and a longtime guest faculty member of The City College of New York’s MFA program in Creative Writing. His plays, all published by Dramatists Play Service, include NY Times’ “Critic’s Pick” Levittown as well as The Groundling, Carl the Second, and Waiting for the Host. An excerpt from a novel in progress, When I Wore Floods, is published in Fiction issue #59, and his short story, “IQ Test,” in issue #64. He has also published short form memoir in The Global City Review and (Re) An Ideas Journal. His screenplays include Miramax Films’ Telling You. Marc graduated from Wake Forest University in 1994, where he played baseball, and was drafted as a pitcher by the Toronto Blue Jays. He received both his MA and MFA in creative writing from CCNY. His memoir, She Danced with Lightning, about life with his daughter’s struggle with epilepsy, is published by Post Hill Press (August, 2022).
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Marc Palmieri is a professor, a writer, an actor, and even a baseball coach having once played for the Toronto Blue Jays. His plays, such as Waiting for the Host, Poor Fellas, and NY Times’ “Critic’s Pick” Levittown have been performed not only in New York City but around the country. His script for Telling You was produced by Miramax and stars Jennifer Love Hewitt.