Bio
(Photo: Jason Doiy, @jdoiy)
Mark grew up in Western Massachusetts and New York's "North Country." He has a BA from St. John's College in Annapolis, and moved to San Francisco in 1987, earning an MFA at San Francisco State while working in public service-facing communications at the California Council for the Humanities, the Judicial Council of California, the James Irvine Foundation, and the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. He lives with his wife and kids in San Francisco, where he's polishing his second novel.