Marcus SpehBorn in the German vinelands of Rhineland-Palatine, Marcus Speh went to a school where he had to learn Latin and Ancient Greek, served in the army as a paratrooper, studied physics in Germany, fell in love in Dutch and Spanish, worked for multi-natioal corporations, lived in Italy, England, and New Zealand, trained as a psychotherapist, got married and divorced and married again, and finally returned to Germany where he lives now, teaching at a business school as a tenured professor of information systems and researching online learning. Speh wanted to be a writer since he learnt to write at age four, put that idea on ice for a good long time, published his first story online with the then-new literary e-zine Metazen in 2009 using the nom de plume Finnegan Flawnt, went on publishing more than 150 short stories in various venues, was nominated for a Micro Award, two Pushcart Prizes, two Best of the Net awards and two Million Writers Awards, was shortlisted for The Reader Berlin's short story competition, and longlisted for the Paris Literary Prize. He lives with his family in Berlin, Pren-zlauer Berg, near a large selec-tion of fine cof-fee houses and writers.​ Read More Read Less