Marcus
Stevens has lived for the last seventeen years in Bozeman,
Montana. Born in Spokane, Washington he spent most of his
childhood in the Rocky Mountain west. He studied writing at
the University of California at Berkeley and then film and
screenwriting at UCLA. His first novel, The
Curve of the World, was a
BookSense Top Ten pick, an Amazon Editor's Choice, a Book
of the Month Club selection and was chosen for the Barnes
& Noble Discover New Writers series. It was optioned
for film by Working Title and translated into German,
Spanish, Japanese, Serbian and Dutch. His latest
novel, Useful
Girl, received
the 2004 Montana Book Award. It was a Willa Literary Award
Finalist and Western Writer's Spur Award Finalist.
For more than twenty years, Stevens has worked as an award
winning commercial director and cameraman, filming national
and international spots across the US as well as in Europe,
Africa, South America, Australia and New Zealand. He has
traveled widely in Africa with his family over the years,
and recently spent a winter in India researching his next
novel.
