Who: Gerard Marconi.
Where: Maryland, United States.
What: Jerry earned his master’s degree at Johns Hopkins University and spent more than thirty years as a teacher and administrator in arts education.
He studied fiction writing in seminars and workshops with writers such as Lee K. Abbott, Roxana Robinson, Jennifer Haigh, and T. Greenwood. His short stories have appeared in The Chattahoochee Review, The Tuscarora Review, and The Summerset Review.
The first draft of Jerry’s recently published novel Gods and Heroes was written at La Muse.
In His Words:
It (Gods and Heroes) draws heavily on my knowledge of my native city, Baltimore, as well as my background in the arts. It’s a novel of linked stories that follows two characters from childhood through adolescence into adulthood, with a provocative look at love, sex, and religion.
It’s set in a blue collar neighborhood of Baltimore during the 60′s and 70′s and it unfolds cinematically with short chapters told from several points of view about how two young people attempt to wrench meaning from adversity and find happiness together despite their differences.
The novel is available at Booklocker.com and Amazon.com both as a print version and in e-book format.
Jerry is currently working on a collection of short stories that will be published next year.
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