Mark Shainblum


Mark Shainblum is a Canadian writer who now lives in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Though he has worked as a journalist and editor, Shainblum is best known as a science fiction and comic book writer.

Early life

Shainblum is Jewish. His great-uncle Yechiel Shainblum was also well known in Montreal as a painter, sculptor and teacher.
In the early 1980s, Shainblum published two issues of a comics and science fiction fanzine called and later founded Matrix Graphic Series, one of only a handful of independent comic book publishers in Canada at the time.

Career

His published works include:
With John Dupuis, Shainblum also co-edited the 1998 short story collection Arrowdreams: An Anthology of Alternate Canadas, which garnered a Prix Aurora Award for Canadian science fiction in 1999. Shainblum was also a finalist in the 2001 international Mark Twain Writing Competition and recently published a story in Claude Lalumière's anthology Island Dreams: Montreal Writers of the Fantastic from Véhicule Press. In 2002–03, he served as president of SF Canada, Canada's national association of science fiction and fantasy authors.

Awards

Current projects

Shainblum is collaborating on two webcomics projects: with artist Sandy Carruthers on a super-hero genre webcomic project entitled Canadiana, and on a mystery serial, The Haunting of MacGrath with artist Jeff Alward. He also works as a communications and media relations professional.