Pushcart Prize winner and Best American Short Stories author Mark Wisniewski's third novel, Watch Me Go (Penguin Putnam, January 22, 2015), received early praise from Salman Rushdie, Ben Fountain, and Daniel Woodrell.
Mark's first novel, Confessions of a Polish Used Car Salesman, was praised by the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, and C. Michael Curtis of The Atlantic Monthly.
Wisniewski's second novel, Show Up, Look Good, was praised by Ben Fountain, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, Psychology Today's Creativity Blog, Jonathan Lethem, Christine Sneed, Molly Giles, Richard Burgin, Kelly Cherry, Diana Spechler, DeWitt Henry, and T.R.
As fiction editor of New York Stories and California Quarterly, Wisniewski acquired work from and published John Updike, Frank McCourt, and Percival Everett.
He has taught and developed creative writing courses for City University of New York and the UC-Berkeley Extension, was a Distinguished Lecturer at Seton Hall University and was a visiting writer at the NYU Creative Writing Program's Writers in New York colloquia.