Mark Mann

Mark Mann is a writer and critic who specializes in narrative essays and longform journalism. His feature stories have appeared in Toronto Life, The Walrus, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Beside, Broadview, and Maisonneuve, among others. His criticism focuses on contemporary art, dance, and performance, and his reviews and essays have been published in The Dance Current, Esse and Momus, where he is a contributing editor. He has been nominated twice for a National Magazine Award, and his winning essay “Lucky Strikes” was published in The Best Canadian Essays of 2011 by Tightrope Books. A frequent collaborator with the audio collective Accounts and Records, he creates scripts for historically-researched site-specific audio walks. Mann is a senior editor at Beside, a Montreal-based nature and culture magazine, and produces a newsletter about Canada's innovation economy called Research Money. His first book — a nonfiction account of Canada's history of institutionalizing people with disabilities — is coming out with Biblioasis in late 2020.