J. Mark Bertrand
Novelist J. Mark Bertrand lives with his wife Laurie in South Dakota. He has a BA in English from Union University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston, where he worked as production editor of the literary magazine, Gulf Coast. For several years, he served on the board of Strange Land Literacy Foundation, a non-profit promoting literature, theology, culture studies and fellowship in Houston. Now, in addition to teaching on the faculty of Worldview Academy, an academic summer camp for high school students, he is the fiction editor at Relief Journal, a quarterly literary magazine.
In Mark's first novel, The Pattern of Wounds,a sixteen-year-old mystery breaks open as a hurricane devastates the Louisiana coast. His recent fiction has appeared in The New Pantagruel, Hardluck Stories and The Ankeny Briefcase.
You can find out more about Mark at his website: jmarkbertrand.com