Mark Koltko-Rivera

Mark Koltko-Rivera was born and raised in the East Village, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He has lived for substantial periods of time in Hiroshima, the suburbs of Philadelphia, inner-city Newark (NJ), and Central Florida; he currently lives in New York City. At various times in his life, Koltko-Rivera has worked as a janitor, hardware store stock clerk, security officer, LDS (Mormon) missionary, systems analyst, director of marketing, psychotherapist, college and graduate school instructor, and as a director of research. For a brief period as a pre-teen, he worked unknowingly as a numbers runner. He has appeared as an expert in documentaries broadcast on the Discovery and History channels, and has appeared in episodes of the online TV series, "Math Warriors." He is a graduate of Haverford College, Fordham University, and New York University. His fiction has appeared in several online literary magazines. Three other stories of his appear as interlocking narratives, all encrypted, in Cracking Codes and Cryptograms for Dummies(r) (co-authored with Denise Sutherland; Wiley, 2010). Koltko-Rivera is at work on a variety of literary projects, fiction, and nonfiction, including works for the stage and screen. Readers may learn more about these projects at the author's website: www.markkoltko-rivera.com. He can be found at the "Mark Koltko-Rivera, Writer" page on Facebook. His Twitter feed is available at @MarkKoltkoRiver. The author receives e-mail at: authorMEKR@yahoo.com.