Mark Galarrita is the son of a post office worker from Mindanao and a finance clerk from Manila who immigrated to New Jersey. He is a graduate of the 2017 Clarion West Writers Workshop and his writing can be found in McSweeney’s, Electric Literature, Nightmare, Split Lip, and elsewhere. His play, MANNY PACQUIAO PUNCHES THE WORLD BUT THE EARTH DOESN’T EVEN FLINCH, was a finalist in the 2020 Arts in the Armed Forces contest judged by David Henry Hwang. Previously he was the Editor-In-Chief of The Whiting Award-winning journal: The Black Warrior Review. He was a McNair Fellow at the University of Alabama MFA program and the recipient of the Don F. Hendrie, Jr. Short Story Prize in 2018, 2020, and 2021. Currently he works at Scribner Books.
FOLLOW
Twitter: @MarkGalarrita
Instagram: @Mark_Galarrita
Mark Galarrita 