About Mark Kozub
Mark Kozub invites you to dream a little harder. He knows the merits of dreaming. As a kid, he used to spend hours creating mock magazines, using his parents’ dining room table as his primary production facility. Now, Mark is a professional writer, an Edmonton author, a founding father of Edmonton’s Raving Poets movement, bassist with The Raving Poets Band, a teacher of writing classes for young people through Young Alberta Book Society’s WordsWorth program, and a principal of The Studio Group, a brand new Edmonton marketing and communications company.
With years of experience in magazine writing and radio broadcasting, Kozub has interviewed some fascinating people, ranging from CEOs to Megan (Anne of Green Gables) Follows, from singer Amanda Marshall and singer/author Mark Oliver Everett (of Eels) to former White House speechwriter David Frum to Dan, a 60 year old handyman with developmental disabilities and a love for 8-tracks by KISS.
Adding to this roster of what Kozub calls “cool people” are the “incredibly cool” Edmontonians he has interviewed for the new coffee table book Celebrating Success in Edmonton. It features Q & A-style interviews with: Kevin Lowe (Edmonton Oilers), Jim Hole (Hole’s Greenhouses and Gardens), Anne McLellan (former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada) and more.
Kozub is co-author of A Calgary Album: Glimpses of the Way We Were (The Dundurn Group), a contributing author to the Edmonton bestseller Big Enough Dreams, and author of The Brown Family and The Uptown Browns. His beatnik poetry has been featured on CBC Radio, CBC TV, Book Television and The Bravo! Network, and his video poem When I Was a Kid appeared on CBC-TV and at various comedy festivals.
Kozub resides in downtown Edmonton, and is steadfast in his dedication to inspiration, success, and the sincere gratitude that comes with meditation and dreaming.
No longer subject to fortune, you could be luck itself,
if you would rise from sleep, leave the market-arguing,
and learn that your own essence is your wealth.
-Rumi
Cirriculum Vitae
Download a copy of Mark Kozub’s CV here.