Marco Verdoni

Marco Verdoni

Marco Verdoni was born and raised in Saginaw, MI. He is an MFA graduate of the New Writers Project in Austin, TX, and a Fulbright scholar. His manuscript An American Adolescence: My Decade Growing Up Behind Bars, was a finalist for the 2025 Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowship. His essay “When to Tell Someone You Went to Prison” is the winner of the 2019 Steinberg Essay Prize, and appears in the Fourth Genre Spring 2020 issue. His short story “Immigrant Song” was selected by Joyce Carol Oates to appear in Akashic Books’ anthology Prison Noir.

Currently, he is on a road trip across all 48 contiguous US states. Follow him on Instagram or his YouTube channel for more frequent updates.

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