Bio:

Mark Arsenault was born in Massachusetts in 1967. He slouched through public schools, and then lollygagged through Assumption College in Worcester, Mass., with a double major in philosophy and English. Arsenault likes to say he graduated 8th in his college class, but that's only because they handed out the diplomas alphabetically...

Nobody outside the newspaper industry has ever wanted to hire him. He has been a newspaper delivery boy, a newspaper truck driver, a Sunday paper section "inserter," a paste-up artist, and, since 1989, a reporter. He cut his teeth in the news business at The Gardner News, in Massachusetts, as a reporter and columnist, before moving to the Marlboro Enterprise in the early 1990s. After a years as a reporter in Marlboro and ten months as the night city editor, Mark persuaded The Sun, of Lowell, Mass., to hire him as a reporter in 1994. It was during his time in Lowell that Mark discovered the setting and the character inspirations for Spiked, his first mystery novel.

In 1998, Mark got a reporting job at The Providence Journal, Providence, Rhode Island, where he works today. He has been stationed in the paper's South County, Newport and Warwick bureaus, the State House office and the main newsroom in Providence.

When Mark is not at his keyboard, you might find him on the side of a mountain.