About theWORDwright theWORDwright is Mark Leichliter.  Bringing twenty years of university teaching, editing, and writing experience to your project, I regularly publish short fiction and essays in a variety of literary marketplaces, in addition to freelance article writing.  I publish under the pseudonym Mark Hummel.  A visit to my blog Confluence Journal provides more details about me and my writing philosophy and includes links to some of my published work.  I have graduate and undergraduate degrees in English and have studied under award-winning fiction writers John Edgar Wideman and Robert Roripaugh.  While a faculty member, I won several teaching awards, directed a departmental Minor in Writing, and ran the prominent annual UNC Rosenberry Writers’ Conference.  Many of my clients and former students have succeeded in publishing their work and many former students have gone on to enroll in MFA programs in creative writing.   theWORDwright