Mark Nielsen

"It's... it's full of stars!" -Dave Bowman's last line in 2001: A Space Odyssey

My blog, *Marking Time* on Wordpress, says more than I could ever fit in here...nevertheless, here are a few key elements:

Mark S. Nielsen is a freelance writer, performance poet, teacher, filmmaker, sculptor, musician, Rennaissance Man and all-around pain-in-the-ass from Chicago, IL. He currently resides in Carol Stream, IL with his mother and son. He attends an ELCA Lutheran Church, a Catholic men’s group, a few funky Mennonite, Emergent or secular peace and justice conferences, and even the occasional extravaganza at Willow Creek Community Church or Goose Island Brewing Company. He’s also a big supporter of the local Chicago music and art scene, and occasionally leads writers' and/or spirituality groups.

Mark has worked as a documentary film director and executive, a K-8 Mennonite school Fine Arts and P.E. teacher, a college writing and business/design teacher, a mall Santa Claus, and a pharmaceutical industry IT Project Manager. If you have any other ideas about what to do next, he IS entertaining suggestions.

He is presently working with disabled kids in the public schools, while chipping away at two novels, one musical theater work, one work of nonfiction, two blogs, a business start-up, a new urban church start-up, his curve-ball, and the reduction of the paunch around his midsection.