Jason J Marchi

Jason J. Marchi is an award-winning journalist, children's fiction writer, and poet.

His first children's book, The Legend of Hobbomock: The Sleeping Giant, became a Barnes & Noble regional best-seller and won four awards. His second children's book, The Growing Sweater, won fourteen awards, most recently an Eric Hoffer Award in 2024. His first collection of poems, Ode on a Martian Urn, appeared as a trade paperback in 2010.

During Jason's 17 years with McGraw-Hill/Dushkin—an education publisher—he worked on editorial development for sixteen higher education titles on issues of wellness, and also worked for 17 years as a feature story writer for the Shore Publishing Newspapers, Elan, Milford Living, and Coast magazines.

He also founded and directed the not-for-profit New Century Writer Awards contest that operated for six years in close association with Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope: All-Story magazine.

As an editor, Jason is credited with discovering the early literary talents of Joseph Hill (20th Century Ghost, Horns) when New Century Writer presented Mr. Hill with the first Ray Bradbury Short Story Fellowship in 2002.

Most recently, Jason is working on his own fiction while also editing the SpeKulative Stories Anthology Series. The first book in the series, Automobilia, was released in January 2024 to outstanding reviews.