Mark Mariano is a Filipino writer, editor, speaker, content producer, and social media whiz from Doonside, on Darug land. Proudly queer, Mark’s work spans across SBS, The Western, Queerstories, Truth To Power Cafè, Fruitbox Theatre, United Nations NSW, ABC, and Netflix ANZ. He is also part of the Sweatshop Western Sydney Literacy Movement, through which he contributed to and sub-edited their 2021 anthology, ‘Racism’. Mark has represented Australia twice at the Harvard University Project for Asian International Relations, was an artist at the 2020 National Young Writers’ Festival, panelled at the 2021 Sydney Writers’ Festival, and spoke at Enqueer’s debut writers festival in 2021.
