A member of the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW) and New York Travel Writers (NYTW), Mark Thompson is an editor, journalist, and photographer whose work appears in various periodicals, including Travel Weekly, Metrosource, HuffPost, OutThere, OutTraveler, and MRNY. The author of the novels Wolfchild (2000) and My Hawaiian Penthouse (2007), Mark has been awarded fellowships and residencies at various artists' colonies, including MacDowell, Yaddo, and Blue Mountain Center. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies with a dissertation on the myth of the frontier in the literature of California.