Dancing with Dasein and Other Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780692495759)

Mark Morganstern is a native of Schenectady, New York. He studied at the Manhattan School of Music, played bass fiddle, and toured with jazz and classical ensembles before deciding that music was not his best choice of profession. An avid reader and writer, he switched majors, studied with Edna O'Brien, Maureen Howard, and Jonathan Wordsworth, and graduated from the City University of New York with an MA in English/Creative Writing. His fiction has appeared in Prima Materia, The Crescent City Review, Piedmont Literary Review, New Southern Literary Messenger, Hunger Magazine, Expresso Tilt, Mothering Magazine, and other journals, and was anthologized in Tribute to Orpheus II. He received an honorable mention for his story, "Tomorrow's Special," published in the Chronogram 11/06 Fiction Contest issue, selected by guest judge, Valerie Martin. Mark subs at the local high school (everything from physics to gym, occasionally even English) and books concerts for The Rosendale Cafe, a vegetarian eatery he owns with his wife Susan and their children. He hopes to retain that position despite his kids' threats to fire him for writing fiction on the job.