Mark Schreiber graduated high school at age 15 and immediately began writing full-time. He completed six novels before publishing his seventh, Princes in Exile, which explores a prodigy’s struggle to accept his own mortality at a summer camp for kids with cancer. It was published in 1984 and made into a feature film in 1991. It has been published in 10 countries and received two awards in Europe. Carnelian, a fantasy about a wizard who seeks to destroy his nemesis, Bloodstone, with three troubled children from New York, was published by Facet in Belgium. Starcrossed, a rebuttal to Romeo and Juliet, claiming true lovers don’t destroy each other but save each other, was published by Flux and translated into French and Turkish. His illustrated science book, How to Build an Elephant, was published as an Apple app by Swag Soft in Singapore. 

Mark has written over 40 books, some of which have been published under his own imprint, Canal House, including the only book to explore the lives of the artists in Cirque du Soleil; a poetic reflection on his battle with the rare, life-threatening illness aplastic anemia; and a mythic history of the Cold War written by a future historian. 

He has received two State of Ohio Individual Writer Fellowships.