Mark McGinty
Mark Carlos McGinty is a descendant of Cuban cigar makers whose work has appeared in Maybourne Magazine, Montage Magazine, Cigar City Magazine, Germ Warfare and La Gaceta. His second novel "The Cigar Maker" won a Bronze Medal at the 2011 Independant Publisher Book Awards and was named Finalist at both the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards and the 2011 National Indie Excellence Awards.
He graduated from Stetson University in DeLand, Florida and got his Master’s degree from Xavier University in Cincinnati. Mark lives in Minneapolis with his wife and daughter.
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“No life form on this planet undergoes such a slow and graceful death as the tobacco leaf.”
Mark McGinty
“A man should not measure his success in life by the type of work he does, or by the medals he has won, but by the impact he has had on those around him, especially his family.”-Salvador Ortiz to his son Lazaro”
Mark McGinty