Mark Perrino was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Corvallis, Detroit, Spokane, Seattle, Lancaster (PA), and Schenectady. After attending four colleges and working at a variety of jobs, he earned a Ph.D. in English literature at Columbia University and wrote The Poetics of Mockery, a study of the British modernist Wyndham Lewis. He has taught at Manhattan College, worked in corporate communications in New York and Copenhagen, and done freelance editing and translation.
He has published two books during the pandemic. The novel Meet the Danes is a whimsical satire based on an imaginary emigration to his wife’s homeland in 1988. Six years later, they did move to Denmark, and the memoir It doesn’t matter, you’ll be okay tells a more sobering tale of frailty and endurance. He has also written The Happiest People blog since 2016. He has an adult son and now lives in Elsinore, Denmark.
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