Mark T. Sneed is a southern born, Chicago raised, University of California at Berkeley educated English major who won the 2020 Cygnus Award for Science Fiction, penned the five book No Credit Series, received the #1 New Release for Science Fiction on Amazon for The Pawn and been named best seller several times for his nearly twenty multi-genre novels. The author played collegiate football and rugby as well as taught junior college, high school and middle school English before becoming a full-time writer. A luddite, bicyclist and chess player Mark is always writing or reading. Mark desires to be a voice of African-American male writers who have been intentionally ignored for far too long.