Mark Sundeen

Biography

Mark Sundeen is the author of five books, including The Unsettlers (Riverhead, 2017), The Man Who Quit Money (Riverhead, 2012),and The Making of Toro (Simon & Schuster, 2003). His work has been translated into seven languages. He holds the Russo Chair in Creative Writing at the University of New Mexico and teaches fiction and nonfiction at the Mountainview Low-Residency MFA Program. His most recent VQR contribution, “Beyond Empire’s Grip,” was listed as Notable Literary Nonfiction in The Best American Essays 2018. 

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ESSAYS / Spring 2019

Holiday Review

By Mark Sundeen ,  Illustration by Jedidiah Dore

We stayed one night at Karl’s place in Jimena de la Frontera in southern Spain. Let me begin with the PROs.

Illustration by Jedidiah Dore
ESSAYS / Winter 2017

Beyond Empire’s Grip

By Mark Sundeen ,  Illustrations by Gregory Euclide

By the time the train approached the station, night had fallen. Sarah Wilcox gathered her bags and descended the stairs to the luggage rack. Her husband, Ethan Hughes, helped slide an unwieldy cardboard box toward the door. The steel floor...