Mark Mirsky was born in Boston and grew up on Blue Hill Avenue which runs through the former towns of Dorchester, Roxbury and old Mattapan. He attended the Boston Public Latin School, Harvard College and Stanford University. He is the editor of Fiction and an Assistant Professor of English at The City College of New York. His stories and articles have appeared in The New Directions Annual, The Progressive, The Boston Sunday Globe, The New York Sunday Times Book Review, The Washington and Partisan Review.