Saunders, Mark Harril

Mark Harril Saunders was born and raised in the Washington, D.C., area and holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Virginia, where he was a Henry Hoyns Fellow. He has traveled extensively in Europe, the Middle East, the former Soviet Union, and China. His writing has appeared in the "VQR, Boston Review, " and the "Virginian-Pilot, " and in 2001 he was awarded the Andrew S. Lytle Prize for fiction from "Sewanee Review." He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, with his wife and three children.