Mark Daniel Taylor is a writer from Plymouth, England, who now lives in London.

Born to a working-class family, Mark has a degree in Film and Literature from Warwick University and an MA in Creative Writing from The University of Plymouth. After graduating in 2013, he moved to the capital city and became a member of the Collier Street Fiction Group. He was a writer for Disclaimer Magazine (2016 - 2018) where he wrote and reviewed short stories. He is an alumnus of the 2020 New Orleans Writers’ Residency and was a finalist in the 2019 Adventures in Fiction New Voices Competition. His work has also been shortlisted for the Adventures in Fiction 2020 First Novel Competition and was longlisted in both The Masters’ Review 2021 Novel Excerpt Competition and the Retreat West Opening Lines Competition 2023. In July 2023, he was a finalist in the Killer Nashville Claymore Award.

Mark has had short stories published in the Hobart Pulp Literary Journal and Disclaimer Magazine and is a reader and book reviewer for The Masters’ Review. He is currently peddling his upmarket family drama, The Sisters Alexander, to prospective agents and anyone who stands still for too long.