Mark Haber was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Florida. His debut novel, Reinhardt’s Garden (2019), was longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His second novel, Saint Sebastian’s Abyss (2022), was named a best book of 2022 by the New York Public Library and Literary Hub. Lesser Ruins, his third novel, comes out in October 2024. Mark was recently appointed a Visiting Professor at Freie Universität Berlin at the Peter Szondi Institute during the 2024/2025 winter semester. Mark’s fiction has appeared in Guernica, Southwest Review, and Air/Light, among others. Mark lives in Minneapolis.