Dr. Mark David Major, AICP, CNU-a is an author, artist, entrepreneur, architect and urban planner with extensive experience in academia, business, real estate, urban planning and design in the USA and Europe. He is a Professor of Urban Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia. Mark is also the founder of the architecture and urbanism blog, The Outlaw Urbanist. He is the author and playwright of several fiction and non-fiction titles including: Mars Rising (science fiction), The Persistence of Memory and Other Plays (theatre), Everyday Objects: Collected Poems, 1987-2012 (poetry), An Infinitesimal Abundance of Color and An Excessive Abundance of Curls (children’s books with Layce Boswell), and the Poor Richard series of almanacs for architects and planners.
He has been published in several different venues including academia, professional journals, newspapers, and poetry magazines for more than twenty years. His poem ‘Purchased Inertia’ appeared in the February 2011 issue of The View From Here Magazine. His poems also appeared in the anthologies On the Wings of Pegasus, Patterns of Life, Visions, Whispers, and the German e-journal, Poems Niederngasse. He is a member of the Poetry Society of America and the Association of Independent Authors.