Mark McDevitt
Biography
Mark McDevitt is a writer and screenwriter with the Writers Guild of America. His written work has appeared in The New York Times (Modern Love, “Best of” Anthology), The Sunday Independent, The Examiner, Giant Magazine, Body + Soul, The Iconoclast and many others. He has written over a dozen feature film scripts and more than a few TV pilots and treatments. In 2007, he was a finalist for the Disney Fellowship in writing, and is a three-time semifinalist for the Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting awarded every year by AMPAS. He is passionate about biography and history, and believes that inside every person is a natural-born storyteller, just waiting to be released. Together with his wife, he is the co-author of the book Painting With Scissors. They live in Fair Haven, New Jersey, with their two young sons. You can find him at markmcdevitt.net.