Mark Sa Franko
Mark SaFranko is an author, playwright and actor based in New Jersey, US. His work “has its roots in painfully lived experience”, and portrays a grimly realistic vision of life. “It's ugly and bleak but then so too is life, especially when you're on the losing end.”
SaFranko was born in Trenton, New Jersey. Trenton rates amongst the top 20 most dangerous cities in the US, and is an area SaFranko refers to as “the mean streets.” where “crime was a daily fact of life”. After attending Notre Dame High School, SaFranko turned towards writing: “The book that actually made me think that a nobody like myself could actually write something was Henry Miller On Writing. I was still a kid, 18 or 19.”
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