Marc J StrausMarc J. Straus is a poet, writer, medical oncologist, and art collector who lives with his wife, Livia, in Chappaqua, New York. A former professor of medicine and Chief of Oncology at New York Medical College and Westchester Medical Center, he is theauthor or co-author of some 100 scientific papers and editor of three textbooks on lung cancer. He is also the author of four poetry collections, including Not God, a play in verse that was staged Off Broadway, and The Bridge, a series of poems in the voice of a female cancer patient that served as the basis of a multimedia exhibit at Lehigh University's Zoellner Art Center in 2004. Marc's poems and stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Field, TriQuarterly, F&M Alumni Arts Review, and many other literary journals. He was awarded a Yaddo residency in poetry in 1993 and presented the annual Robert Penn Warren lecture sponsored by Yale's Program for Humanities in Medicine in 1998. He took gold in a New York City judo tournament in 1967 and coached the U.S. Karate Team at the Tenth Maccabiah in Israel in 1977. Marc has published more than 50 articles on contemporary art. The collection he and Livia have amassed has been featured in numerous magazines and exhibited at 12 museums in the U.S. The Strauses founded Hudson Valley MOCA, a public museum of contemporary art in Peekskill, New York, and Marc currently runs MARC STRAUS, a contemporary art gallery located on Manhattan's Lower East Side across the street from the former site of his father's textile store. One-Legged Mongoose is his first book of prose. Learn more at marcjstraus.com. Read More Read Less