theWORDwright is Mark Leichliter, a professional writer, editor, and teacher who publishes under the pseudonym Mark Hummel.
I bring three decades of publishing experience and more than twenty years of university teaching, editing, and writing experience to your project. I am the author of the books Man, Underground; In the Chameleon’s Shadow; and Lost & Found and, writing as Mark Leichliter, the crime novel The Other Side. I regularly publish short fiction and essays in a variety of literary marketplaces. I have graduate and undergraduate degrees in English and have studied under celebrated writers, including John Edgar Wideman and Donald Murray.
While a faculty member, I won several teaching awards, directed a departmental Minor in Writing, and ran both a prominent writers’ conference and an author speaker series. I am the managing editor of the nonfiction magazine bioStories and I am a resident faculty member of the Jackson Hole Writers’ Conference. A majority of my clients, and many of my former students, have succeeded in establishing publishing careers. As a ghostwriter, I’ve helped a number of entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and business executives reach broad audiences and lead their genres as Amazon bestsellers.
I live and work from my home in Montana.