Mark Oshiro
Mark Oshiro writes YA and middle grade fiction, created Mark Reads and Mark Watches, and co-authors Nico di Angelo adventures with Rick Riordan.
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Overview
- Work
- Author, reviewer, and editor
- Based in
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Online beginnings
- Mark Reads, summer 2009; Mark Watches, fall 2010
- Debut novel
- Anger Is a Gift, 2018
Mini bio
How it started.
Mark’s online writing grew out of reading Twilight for the first time while working at Buzznet. Mark Reads began in 2009, followed by Mark Watches in 2010. Fans followed along as they discovered books and television without spoilers, with Twilight and Harry Potter helping the reviews find an audience.
From reviews to novels.
Their debut novel, Anger Is a Gift, arrived in 2018 and won the 2019 Schneider Family Book Award for teens. Mark later retired Mark Reads and Mark Watches to focus on writing children’s literature, while keeping a Patreon community around their fiction and publishing journey.
Writing in worlds they love.
Alongside their own novels, Mark co-wrote The Sun and the Star with Rick Riordan. The Nico di Angelo adventure became a number-one New York Times bestseller. They reunited for The Court of the Dead in 2025, bringing Hazel Levesque into the story alongside Nico and Will.
Creditschronological, newest first
- 2025The Court of the DeadCo-author with Rick Riordan
- 2024Jasmine Is HauntedAuthor
- 2023The Sun and the StarCo-author with Rick Riordan
- 2023Into the LightAuthor
- 2020Each of Us a DesertAuthor
- 2018Anger Is a GiftAuthor
Awards
Quotes
there is something fun about getting into something you don't know that everyone else knows.Mark Oshiro, The Reading Culture
Explaining the appeal of discovering popular stories for the first time through Mark Does Stuff.
Trivia
- Their stated life goal is to pet every dog in the world.
- They have an identical twin, and the two were adopted together.
- They grew up watching The X-Files and The Twilight Zone.
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