Mark Cohen
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States Email: ronin5514@gmail.com
Home page: www.niten-ink.com
My name is Mark Cohen, and have led a rich and colorful life that has been filled with more than its share of ups and downs. I will do my best to provide some background regarding myself.
I was born in 1955 to middle class parents in Brooklyn, New York. I journeyed to Charlotte, NC around 1995. I am a second son of two children, my older brother still living in New York City working as an architect.
Graduating Hunter College in 1976 with a BA (majoring in Studio Art with a minor in Education) I have held many jobs over a fairly colorful and challenging life. I have worked as a substitute teacher, graphic artist, bar manager and bouncer, until I took a job with Social Services of New York and rose to become a director of some emergency housing programs.
However, before 911, I decided to start over. I accepted a buyout, and moved to Charlotte. It was there life took another unexpected turn and I became an independent broker of automotive chemicals. As our country’s economic footprint was changing in a viable economy, it became harder and harder to work as an independent. I took a job working in an automotive parts plant, becoming 2nd shift supervisor, to help make ends meet.
However, that occupation held little personal gratification. I went back to college to obtain a degree in Radiography and became a licensed Radiologic Technologist. I always loved the idea of helping people, and being a Rad Tech allowed me to do just that. In fact, it was my work in the hospital field that introduced me to my wife, Helen. However, things did not work out quite as expected. After 5 years on the job, I caught a falling morbidly obese patient and subsequently destroyed my shoulders. Two surgeries later, I was still unable to work my chosen field.
So that is how I arrived at this juncture in my life. To loosely paraphrase the expression, “Those that can’t do, teach.”… Those that can’t work, write.
I am now reapplying my once secondary focus on my art and writing. Interests: Horror, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction, Essays
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