Mark SaFranko is an author, playwright and actor based in New Jersey, US.
His work “has its roots in painfully lived experience”, and portrays a grimly realistic vision of life.
“It's ugly and bleak but then so too is life, especially when you're on the losing end.”SaFranko was born in Trenton, New Jersey, a city that has been rated among the top 20 most dangerous cities in the US, and is an area SaFranko refers to as “the mean streets” where “crime was a daily fact of life”.
After attending Notre Dame High School, SaFranko turned towards writing: “The book that actually made me think that a nobody like myself could actually write something was Henry Miller On Writing.