The son of Polish immigrants, Mark Ostrowski (Long Branch, 1971) was a star basketball player until the age of thirteen, when a freak eye accident forced him to abandon the hardwood forever.  It was around this time that he began reading a great deal, although quality books were in short supply in the Ostrowski household.  He recalls there being "many bodybuilding magazines piled up in the garage, and an occasional Hustler buried under some of the stacks." So far, he has been able to effectively huckster the editors at Pif, G-21, CrossConnect, The Cortland Review, ManuFACTS (Puerto Rico), Antorcha (Spain), Hunger, and UK Fishing World (no kidding:  forthcoming in August), among a slew of other, less-reputable publications.