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Mark Wisniewski

Biography

Mark Wisniewski

Mark Wisniewski's new novel, WATCH ME GO, has already earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly, made the Most Anticipated Books List for 2015 by The Millions, and received advance praise from Salman Rushdie, Daniel Woodrell, Ben Fountain, Rebecca Makkai, Dan Chaon, Christine Sneed, Tim Johnston and Ru Freeman.

His second novel, SHOW UP, LOOK GOOD, was praised by Jonathan Lethem, Molly Giles, Kelly Cherry, DeWitt Henry, T.R. Hummer, Richard Burgin and Diana Spechler.

Wisniewski is also the author of the novel CONFESSIONS OF A POLISH USED CAR SALESMAN, the collection of short stories ALL WEEKEND WITH THE LIGHTS ON, and the book of narrative poems ONE OF US ONE NIGHT.

His short fiction has received a Pushcart Prize and appeared in Best American Short Stories, The Southern Review, Antioch Review, New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Yale Review, TriQuarterly, The Missouri Review, The Sun and The Georgia Review.

His narrative poems have appeared in such venues as Poetry, The Iowa Review, Ecotone, Prairie Schooner, New York Quarterly, Post Road and Poetry International.

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.

He lives with his wife in New York City.

Mark Wisniewski

Books by Mark Wisniewski

by Mark Wisniewski - Fiction, Noir, Suspense, Thriller

Douglas “Deesh” Sharp has managed to stay out of trouble living in the Bronx, paying his rent by hauling junk for cash. But on the morning Deesh and two pals head upstate to dispose of a sealed oil drum whose contents smell and weigh enough to contain a human corpse, he becomes mixed up in a serious crime. When his plans for escape spiral terribly out of control, Deesh quickly finds himself a victim of betrayal --- and the prime suspect in the murders of three white men.