Marc was born and raised in Winston Salem North Carolina and started writing poetry while he was in high school. In the 11th grade, like many of his peers at that time, he was going through a phase...view moreMarc was born and raised in Winston Salem North Carolina and started writing poetry while he was in high school. In the 11th grade, like many of his peers at that time, he was going through a phase of life when he didn’t fully understand how everything fits or was supposed to fix in his life. So he wrote a poem titled “When I Consider How my Life has been Spent”; he’d hoped to gain greater insight about himself. After his English teacher had a chance to read it she was very impressed and said, “Marc, this is your calling; this is your vision from God.”view less