The author of fifty-four published books, Marsh Cassady, Ph.D., is a former actor, director, and theatre prof. He also has taught various creative writing classes at UCSD and elsewhere. While teaching at Montclair State in New Jersey, he started an entire program in playwriting that included graduate and undergraduate courses, special projects, and a workshop. A former columnist and editorial writer for The Baja Times, he has served as editor of two magazines, one national and one regional, and two literary journals. He and his partner Jim Kitchen were co-owners/publishers of Los Hombres Press. Their first book, A Gathering of Sparrows, edited by Alexis Rotella, was named by the U.S. National Haiku Society as outstanding anthology of the year. For a dozen years, the two also published a literary journal Crazyquilt.

Marsh’s plays have been produced across the U.S., including Off-Broadway, and at a play festival in Mexico. His haiku book, The Music of Tree Limbs, was awarded first place in a national competition, and the New York Public Library listed his drama anthology, Great Scenes from Women Playwrights, as an outstanding books for the teen year. Four other books have been finalists in national competitions, two for Lambda Literary Awards and an Independent Publishers Award. His true crime book, The New Hall Incident, written with former CHP Commander John Anderson, won the San Diego Book Award for nonfiction, and he has won various other awards for poetry, haiku, and fiction. Marsh’s ceramics and digital art currently are displayed in area galleries.