Born in Hong
Kong during the height of the Cultural Revolution, Marc Vincenz has spent most
of his life on the road. He has lived in England, Switzerland, Spain, Hong
Kong, China, the United
States, and has traveled far and
wide to such remote locations such as central Siberia, the Amazon Rainforest,
Tibet, India’s Thar Desert, and China’s Kun Lun Mountains. After many years of
business and travel in the Far East, he finally settled in Shanghai in the 90s.
His recent books include The
Propaganda Factory, or Speaking of Trees (2011); Gods of a Ransacked
Century (Unlikely Books, 2013), Mao's Mole (Neopoiesis Press, 2013)
and forthcoming, Beautiful Rush (Unlikely Books, 2014) and a meta-novel,
Behind the Wall at the Sugar Works (Spuyten Duyvil, 2014). A new
English-German bi-lingual collection, Additional Breathing Exercises is
forthcoming from Wolfbach Verlag, Zurich (2014). He is also completing a
spoken-word album to be released by Neuroshell Records, New York. He is Publisher
and Executive Editor of MadHat (Mad Hatters’ Review) and MadHat Press
and Coeditor-in-Chief of Fulcrum: an
annual of poetry and aesthetics. He now divides his time between
Reykjavik, Zurich, Berlin and New York City.
JONATHAN PENTON
magazine Unlikely Stories. Since then, UnlikelyStories.org has grown into a contemporary multimedia journal of sociopolitical and cultural essays, reviews, interviews, criticism, poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction, movies, visual art, music, cross-media work, and first-hand tales of political and cultural activism, now known as Unlikely Stories: Episode IV. It has spawned a print and e-book subsidiary, Unlikely Books, which has published, among other things, the 418-page anthology (CD and DVD attached) Unlikely Stories of the Third Kind.
Jonathan has participated in, organized, and promoted literary and arts events throughout north America, in places like New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Denver, Atlanta, New Orleans, El Paso and Juarez, Mexico. His own poetry chapbooks are Last Chap (Vergin’ Books, 2004), Painting Rust and Blood and Salsa (bound together by Unlikely Books, 2006) and Prosthetic Gods (Winged City Chapbooks, 2008). He has worked as an editor and webmaster for a number of arts organizations.
Jonathan currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Unlikely Stories: Episode IV and Unlikely Books, Managing Editor for both Fulcrum and MadHat Press, and a co-ordinator for Acadiana Wordlab, a weekly literary drafting workshop in Lafayette, Louisiana. He is starting a new imprint of translation, Coeur Publishing.
