Mark Daniel Taylor is a writer from Plymouth, England, now based in London.

Born into a working-class family, Mark earned a degree in Film and Literature from Warwick University and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Plymouth. After graduating in 2013, he moved to London, where he joined the Collier Street Fiction Group and became a writer for Disclaimer Magazine, reviewing and writing short stories until the magazine folded in 2018.

Mark was a finalist in the 2019 Adventures in Fiction New Voices Competition and the 2023 Killer Nashville Claymore Award. He is also an alumnus of the 2020 New Orleans Writers’ Residency.

His work has been recognised in multiple competitions, including the Adventures in Fiction 2020 First Novel Competition, The Masters’ Review 2021 Novel Excerpt Competition, and the Retreat West Opening Lines Competition 2023. He was most recently listed in both the Retreat West 2025 Opening Lines Competition and their 2025 First Chapter Competition.

His short stories have appeared in The Hooghly Review, Weird Lit Magazine, Hobart Pulp Literary Journal, and Disclaimer Magazine. He has also worked as a reader and book reviewer for The Masters’ Review. He is currently enrolled in the flagship Curtis Brown ‘Writing Your Novel’ Course.

Mark is working on his debut novel, Infinity Land, an upmarket literary thriller about two closeted film students who become obsessed with one of their classmates to a murderous degree.