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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mark Jay Mann was born in Houston, Texas on March 25, 1945. He now lives with his life partner, Diana, in Eugene, Oregon.
In October, 2011, Mark Jay Mann published his novel, Homeless Mysteries, Homeless Intimacies and began distributing it as an eBook on Amazon Kindle. He completed a manuscript of this novel during the years from 1989 to 1991, but in 2010 decided to revise it and publish it on Kindle. This novel is a romantic suspense story set against a dangerous and harsh urban setting dominated by economic inequality and greed. The main character, Gibson Calhoun, is a 37-year old man, trying to survive on the streets of Portland, Oregon, where homeless men and women are being murdered by a serial killer. Gibson's consciousness often fades away into altered states of consciousness, and he does not know if he has psychic abilities or suffers from a psychosis.
In August of 2010, Mark Jay Mann published A Collection of Wordstreams (Prose Poems & Vignettes -1972-2010, and began distributing it as an eBook on Amazon Kindle. Poetically, among his major influences are Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Italo Calvino, Rumi, William Butler Yeats, William Blake, Bob Dylan, Ursula Le Guin, Anais Nin, Henry Miller, John Lennon, Rabelais, Roger Zelazny, Sylvia Plath, e.e. cummings, Pablo Neruda, Federico Garcia Lorca and Dane Rudhyar.
In 1996, the American Federation of Astrologers (AFA), Inc. published his book, Astrology for the Absolute Beginner, and in 1998, he was awarded The Paul R. Grell Award, "In Recognition For the Best Book Published by the AFA During 1996-1998.
Mark Jay Mann has a BA in English Literature and a MA in Counseling Psychology, both received from the University of Oregon. Writing projects he hopes to publish in the coming years include additional collections of prose poems, astrological case studies, and a book defining a practical and spiritual holistic model of life based upon insights gained from his metaphysical, psychological and spiritual studies.
