Mark S Bailen is a writer from Northern Arizona. His two favorite activities are hiking and doodling. He would do both at the same time, if it didn’t increase his risk of running into a tree. He has an MFA from the University of Arizona. He’s a member of Codex. He’s published in Ecotone, Nature, and McSweeney’s. He also wrote and illustrated an award-winning children’s book titled, Earf.
collections
“All the World Is Staged” – short story at Nature online pdf
“Out, Out, Brief Planet” – short story at Nature online pdf
“The Taming of the Proto Shrew” – short story at Nature online pdf
“Such Devices as Dreams are Made on” – short story at Nature online pdf
“The Hummingbird War” – short story in Radon Journal free online
“Nature!” – short story in the 23rd Annual Triangulation Anthology coming soon
“Midnight at the Sunrise Hotel” – short story in The Cafe Irreal free online
“The Occubot” – short story in 4LPH4NUM3R1C free online audio
selected pubs
WEIRD WEST
“Hell-Bound Hold Up” – short story in Orpheus + Eurydice Unbound book
“Seeing Stars” – short story in Dread Space 2 paperback ebook
“Rising Cove” – short story in The Science Fiction Tarot book
“Teleportitus” – short story at Daily Science Fiction pdf archive
“A Neutron Bomb for Algernon” – short story at Andromeda Spaceways Magazine magazine
“Bears Discover Time Travel” – short story at Ecotone online archive
“Urgent Care” – short story at Little Blue Marble free online book
“Zeus and the Electrician” – short story at Solarpunk Magazine magazine pdf
“Arbor Day Dreams” – essay in High Plains Literary Review Vol. 16.1 journal
“An Understudy in Scarlet” – short story in Mystery Magazine magazine
“Wild Turkeys” – short story in 36 Views of O book
“And then I Saw Her in the Bookstore and Felt My Space” – short story in Sonora Review #44 journal
“Another Godzilla” – short story in Cimarron Review #131 journal
“Hort0n” – short story in Unidentified Funny Objects 10 book
“People Are Dying to Eat at Our Insufferable Pop-Up Restaurant” – post at McSweeney’s free online
“The Uplift Candidate” – short story at Space Squid (scroll down) free online
“Lost Portals” – short story at Fantasy free online pdf
Earf – illustrated children’s book paperback
hardback
The World-Eating Machine – illustrated children’s book
hardback
mentions
2026 Pushcart Prize Special Mention – “Bears Discover Time Travel”2021 Tor.com September Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction – “Lost Portals”
2014 Moonbeam Gold Medal for Children’s Poetry – “Earf”