James Marchiori wanted to be a writer from an early age. He wrote his first verses at nine years old after reading Edgar Allan Poe's tales and poems in the secret of his room. He's been collecting various literary awards across Italy and Europe and was awarded at the European Parliament in Brussels for one of his poems in 2002, always studying the works of his great masters from Edgar Allan Poe to Antonin Artaud, André Breton and the Surrealism era passing through Tristan Tzara and the Dadaism movement, French Symbolism with Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Mallarmè and likewise with Byron, Blake, Keats. He got a degree in teaching and education studies with a pedagogical endorsement. Then he became also a certified sound engineer and achieved an advanced executive diploma in Private Investigations with particular insights into Criminal Psychology and Commercial Espionage. Recently, he completed a master in Screenwriting. He's been writing songs and playing gigs as a frontman in various bands. He travels extensively around the world living in Venice, New York, Los Angeles, London and Dublin to name a few. Since 2018, his very first novel celebrating Edgar Allan Poe and Gothic fiction is on sale worldwide and got him a nomination for the 'Saturday Visiter Awards' powered by the Poe Baltimore Association. 2019 was the debut of his first English anthology of collected poems. He's currently working on multiple projects, including a couple of new books and a screenplay. Bohemia incarnate, a soul devoted to surrealism and poetry.
