Mark Todd, author of Wire Song, is the founder of Western State Colorado University's MFA in Creative Writing and has been a Professor of English at Western in Gunnison, Colorado since 1988. He currently serves as Director of the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program and as Editor-in-Chief for Western Press Books, which oversees the Graduate Program in Creative Writing's Certificate in Publishing. He has twenty-five years of professional journalism experience having published hundreds of news stories, features, columns, and throughout the nation and abroad. Mark has performed his poetry and given fiction readings across the country and in Europe.
