Marcus Spiegel
spiegel.marcus.etc@gmail.com
Bio
Marcus Spiegel entertained the notion of becoming a lifelong student, but eventually settled for a B.A. in English from the University of Winnipeg, and went off in hopes of becoming a mime. Finding himself not exactly patient enough—and certainly not psychologically equipped—to endure the concentrated attention of crowds, he sold his mime suit to a costume shop and began exploring alternate vocations, perhaps the sexiest of which is his foray into private investigation. Nothing in particular panning out for him professionally, he relocated to Seoul, South Korea, under peculiar circumstances in 2011, and it’s probably best not to say anything further on the subject. Suffice to say, he spent some of his time there researching and writing the manuscript of his first novel (thus far tragically unpublished), which concerns a troubled Shakespearean actor's descent into thievery and degenerate heists and increasingly more ambitious kinds of fraud while trying to prevent his unraveling into madness. After a few more skirmishes in the Far East (sampling curries at the street stalls of Malaysia, hobnobbing with orangutans in the jungles of Sumatra), Spiegel repatriated to Canada in 2016, for some reason ending up in Toronto on the couch of an old friend. It’s perhaps worth pointing out that upon visiting the house of Edgar Allan Poe in Philadelphia in 2019, he witnessed what can only be described as a supernatural event in the attic.
Publications
The Inferno on Prime Time (nonfiction)
Forthcoming in Boulevard
Republished in the 2022
Pushcart Prize
XLVI Anthology
A Tale of Two Trolls (fiction)
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Republished in the 2022
Pushcart Prize
XLVI Anthology
A Tale of Two Trolls (fiction)
Order The Pushcart Prize XLVI Anthology here:
http://www.pushcartprize.com
Century of the Hoax (nonfiction)
North American Review Fall 2021
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North American Review Fall 2021
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A Tale of Two Trolls (fiction)
Santa Monica Review Spring 2020
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Santa Monica Review Spring 2020
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The Monsieurs of Bobby's
Value Furniture (fiction)
Southwest Review 2019 Volume 104.2
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Value Furniture (fiction)
Southwest Review 2019 Volume 104.2
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Transtatic Love (fiction)
Summerset Review Summer 2019
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http://www.summersetreview.org/19summer/transtatic.html
