Mark Farrington

MARK FARRINGTON recently retired after nearly forty years of teaching writing, the last twenty-five of them in the MA in Writing and Teaching Writing Programs at Johns Hopkins University. He has published short stories in Carve, Craft Literary, The Valparaiso Fiction Review, The Louisville Review, and other journals, and creative nonfiction and articles on writing and the teaching of writing in several National Writing Project publications. His short fiction has won the Editor’s Choice Award in the Raymond Carver Fiction Contest, the Dan Rudy Fiction Prize, second prize in the Dame Alice Throckmorton Fiction Prize, two honorable mentions for the Momaya Prize, and an Individual Artists Grant from the Virginia Commission on the Arts. A four-time winner of the Outstanding Faculty Award in the Johns Hopkins MA in Writing Program, his other teaching awards include an Outstanding Service Award from the Northern Virginia Writing Project and an Outstanding Alumni Award from the George Mason University English Department. Farrington grew up in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, earned his B.A. in English and American Literature from Colby College, where he graduated cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and completed his M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from George Mason University. He recently moved to Maine with his wife and their Springer Spaniel, after living for more than thirty years just outside Washington, D.C. Loss of Life is his first novel.