Mark Cecil
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Mark Cecil

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Mark Cecil is the host of The Thoughtful Bro show, where he conducts author interviews with an eclectic roster of award-winning and breakout storytellers, including Pulitzer Prize, Academy Award and Booker Prize winners, as well as bestsellers and debuts of all stripes, both fiction and non-fiction. Mark’s debut novel is BUNYAN AND HENRY, OR, THE BEAUTIFUL DESTINY, published by Pantheon Books. Mark is Head of Strategy for literary social media start-up A Mighty Blaze. He is the Co-Founder of Blaze Writers Project, which puts on literary events around Boston. His author interview work has been featured in The Washington Post, The Millions, The Mighty Blaze Podcast and Writer’s Bone. He has taught about creative writing and the publishing industry at Grub Street and The Writers Loft, and he is an alum of Jenna Blum’s Master Novel Writing Workshop at Grub Street. Mark studied Fantastic Fiction with Jeanne Cavelos at the Odyssey Writing Workshop and has completed training with the Racial Equity Institute. Mark’s essays, novel excerpts and reviews have appeared in Embark Literary Journal, The Millions, and Grub Daily. In his previous career, Mark spent 10 years as a reporter and editor, mostly for global news agency Reuters News in New York, San Francisco and Boston. Most recently, he was as the General Manager & VP of a boutique media firm in Manhattan. An avid indoorsman, Mark attended Brown University and University College London and originally hails from the heart of the commonwealth, Worcester, Massachusetts. He is parent to four wise-cracking children (one of them featured below), and has a dope wife.
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