Mark lives in New Jersey with his wife, their two daughters, and a small but mighty dog.

A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in Creative Writing, he is a book editor.

Mark serves as Vice President and Executive Editor at G.P. Putnam’s Sons and is an adjunct professor at New York University (NYU), where he teaches Book Acquisition and Editing at the Center for Publishing.

He still sometimes plays the guitar he brought with him while sailing the world during Semester at Sea.