Jenier E. Marmolejos

Jenier E. Marmolejos (b. Dominican Republic) is an American author and filmmaker. He has directed several music videos, a feature film, as well as written several children's novels, including The Adventures of Pepe Lictín and The Mecha Chronicles Series. He has also written extensively for television. He is the creator and writer of Por La Cabeza de Ignacío García, a Telenovela that is currently filming in Dominican Republic.
A graduate of Florida Atlantic University, Marmolejos took up teaching until 2009, when he started working full-time in television. His first film, King, was released in 2006 by York Entertainment and distributed around the world to more than 25 different countries including the United States and Russia. His first book, Quetzalcoatl: The Adventures of Pepe Lictín, features a fifteen-year-old boy who discovers that his mentor and guardian was not the renowned archeologist everyone thought she was, but a British intelligence agent and a member of a secret terrorist organization known as La Société.
His Mecha Chronicles Series follows the love story of Jake D. Krilinsky and Elps Fabritius, two fifteen-year-old high school seniors in a post-apocalyptic world populated by Mecha robots (hence the title).
He is also an energetic orator and eloquent public speaker. He promotes reading as well as creative writing around schools, using the techniques learned in the field, in an effort to get students involved in their writing communities. He also promotes frequent writing competitions based on his work as well as art contests in the school districts he visits.
Jenier Marmolejos lives in South Florida with his family. He has stated that he is working on the rest of The Mecha Chronicles as well as a new title in The Adventures of Pepe Lictín Series known only as The Lost Skeletons of Gaalbala.
Published Books
The Adventures of Pepe Lictín
- Quetzalcoatl - June 22, 2010
The Mecha Chronicles
- Mecha A.D.: Why Do Robots Fall in Love - Dec. 28, 2010
Filmography
KING (2006)
Por La Cabeza de Ignacío García (2011)
Awards
1997 Concurso Literario de la Alianza Cibaeña

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