J. Mark Bertrand is a writer who 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.

His book Rethinking Worldview: Learning to Think, Live, and Speak in This World will be published by Crossway Publishers in the fall of 2007.

Mark has written a novel, The Pattern of Wounds, and his recent fiction has appeared in The New Pantagruel, Hardluck Stories and InFuze Magazine, recent nonfiction in The Wittenburg Door and Fire By Nite. His flash fiction appeared in the now-defunct Flashing in the Gutters. His story "Strings" appeared in the first issue of The Ankeny Briefcase.