Mark Ari, senior English instructor at the University of North Florida, founded and serves as editorial advisor to the literary journal, Fiction Fix. He also edits EAT, a publisher of digital albums and audio chapbooks; and directs River House, the university’s virtual writer’s house. He publishes fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. His novel, The Shoemaker's Tale, received praise in international trade and popular periodicals like The New York Times, Kirkus Reviews, and The Jerusalem Post. He is a performing singer-songwriter, and his paintings have been exhibited in group and solo shows in New York and Europe.
Mark Ari
Studios
Mansfield
Mark Ari worked in the Mansfield studio.
The Helen Coolidge Mansfield Studio was donated by graduates of the Mansfield War Service Classes for Reconstruction Aides. Helen Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club. The small, shingled frame structure with stone foundation was originally fronted on the west side by a neat white picket fence and gate, a garden, and a stone pathway…