Mark Piggott

Mark Piggott, a native of Phillipsburg, N.J., enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1982, beginning a 23-year career. He served on four aircraft carriers and various duty stations as a Navy Journalist before he attained the rank of Chief Petty Officer. He retired from active duty in 2006. His first novel, Forever Avalon, was published in 2009, followed by his second novel, The Dark Tides, in 2014. The Outlander War: Book Three of the Forever Avalon series from Austin Macauley Publishing was released in 2020. In 2021, The Outlander War won the Firebird Book Award for Fantasy. His new fantasy/adventure novel, The Last Magus, was released in 2021 from Lulu.com. His short story, Demonfall, was one of ten stories published in The Publishing Room fantasy anthology, Of Distant Worlds. His short story, Corsair and the Sky Pirates, won the Crystal Peake Publishing “Steampunk Writing Contest” and will be published in a steampunk anthology in 2021. He and his wife, Georgiene, live in Alexandria, Virginia. They have three children.