A history major in college, Marcus Woodward has spent the last 28 years teaching social studies in a junior high in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Always an admirer of the fantasy genre of writing, Woodward studied creative writing under the Arkansas author, Francis Irby Gwaltney, who made friends with Norman Mailer during World War II. After college, Woodward was fortunate to study in Austria. Through the years, Woodward has written poems, short stories, and even a play about Oskar Kokoschkas strange fascination with Alma Mahler. The novel, Twisted Solitude, is his latest labor of love.