Gerard Marconi is a native of Baltimore, where his one-act play "Rapture" was recently given a public reading by the Baltimore Playwrights Festival. He earned a master's degree from Johns Hopkins University and studied fiction writing with such well known authors as Lee K. Abbott, Roxana Robinson, Jennifer Haigh, and T. Greenwood. His work has appeared in The Chattahoochee Review and The Summerset Review, among others. His short story "How the Dead Are Buried" was featured in the Spring 2012 issue of Mayday, an online magazine published by New American Press. His novel “Gods and Heroes†is currently available online as an e-book or in paperback.