Mark Paterson is a Montreal writer whose fiction has appeared in various literary magazines and anthologies. He is a producer and host of the Grimy Windows Variety Showcase, a monthly series at Montreal's Hurley's Irish Pub featuring prose and poetry, comedy, music, film screenings, and wrestling. He is currently working on a novel about an overnight courier in search of the elusive 'perfect' work-related injury, the trials and tribulations of an alien abduction-prone donut shop cashier, and the allure of self-induced alcoholism.