Bio

Mark Anthony is the Essence Magazine bestselling author of Paper Chasers, Dogism, Lady’s Night, The Take Down, Reasonable Doubt, Queen Bee, Still A Dog, and Diary of A Young Girl. Mark Anthony is also a contributing author to numerous anthologies such as Streets of New York volumes 1,2,and 3, Around The Way Girls, Menace II Society, and Girls in Da Hood. Additionally Mark is also the author of Harlem Heat which he co-authored with hip-hop star 50 Cent. Mark Anthony founded Q-Boro Books in 2004 where he published best selling books such as My Woman His Wife and The Aftermath by Anna J. Q-Boro Books quickly became the fastest growing independently owned African American publishing house in the United States. On the heels of Q-Boro Books success, Mark Anthony sold the company to Urban Books in 2008 and the imprint is now called Urban Renaissance. Mark lives in New York City with his family where he is hard at work on future books and other entrepreneurial endeavors.