F/V Black Sheep by Mark S. Williams

Mark S. Williams is a graduate of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and of the Wilmington, California Commercial Dive School, trained in ultra-sonics, and an E.M.T. He worked for Sub-Sea Offshore in Aberdeen, Scotland and Atlantic Dive Co. of Gloucester, MA. After working on a Gloucester gill-netter, he fished and lobstered from the F/V Chassea until it sank and then from the Novi boat F/V Black Sheep from which he lobstered alone for a decade. He is a published poet. Currently he is writing a second non-fiction book Code Flag Alpha based on his experience as a commercial diver. Read Mark Williams's tribute to Andre Dubus III on Literary Gloucester.	.

Read Mark's Tribute to his father, Ted Williams

Mark S. Williams' short story "Imprisioned in Maine" appears in,
Windchill: Crime Stories by New England Writers, from Level Best Books It can be found in local bookstores or you can download an order form.

To read Mark's 2002 My View column from the Gloucester Daily Times, "The Mayor of Niles Beach", a tribute to his good friend Joe Paynotta, click here.

Names of Gloucester fishermen lost at sea listed on the fisherman's memorial in Gloucester.

Mark S. Williams is a member of the Level Best Books Authors' Web Ring:
Level Best Books, publisher of an annual crime anthology
Parlez-Moi Press, publishers of literature and poetry
Skye Alexander, author of fiction and non-fiction self-help books
John R. Clark, author of essays, short stories and novels
David Compton, author of non-fiction and fiction
Kate Flora, author of fiction and non-fcition
Susan Oleksiw, author of the Mellingham Mystery Series
Margaret Press, author of the Gabriel Dunn Mystery Series
Stephen D. Rogers, author of horror and fantasy
J.E. Seymour, author of mystery short stories
Kathleen Valentine, author of essays, short stories and novels
Leslie Wheeler, author of historical mystery novels
Mark S. Williams, poet and author of non-fiction adventure
Nancy Means Wright, author of the Ruth Willmarth Mystery Series

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