Mark Wallace lives and writes on the rural California coast south of San Francisco. His essays and journalism have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Rumpus, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, Harper's, Wired, Fast Company, and many more. He teaches classes on writing and literature at the Writers Grotto, OLLI at SF State, and elsewhere. Find him on Bluesky at @markwallace.bsky.social