“I want readers to care about the characters in my stories. Some you will root for, other you hope will have their fall. Readers should see a part of themselves, humankind in all its complexity, the noble, the vile, the precious and the tragic, all at once.”

Mark Mrozinski, Ed.D., began his career as a pianist, composer, and teacher, before serving as a dean and vice president in higher education. His short fiction has been published in Beyond Words Magazine, Mystery Magazine, The Lit Nerds, and The Write Launch. He was shortlisted for the 2025 Writers Digest Short Story Competition, the 2021 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize, and he was awarded second place in the 2022 Tennessee Williams Short Fiction Contest. In addition to writing, he continues to compose and arrange music, with works published by RCM Publications in Toronto.

Mark lives in Chicago with his family.