Mark A. York is a journalist, biologist and novelist. He has worked as a carpenter, actor, and fisheries biologist all over the West and Alaska, and he was a full-time reporter at The Livingston Enterprise in Livingston, Montana. York has written a blog that focuses on environmental issues since 2003 and wrote special projects in 2011 for the Idaho Mountain Express in Ketchum, Idaho. His history book, Patriot on the Kennebec: Major Reuben Colburn, Benedict Arnold and the March to Quebec 1775, was released on February 17, 2012 by The History Press. He is a member of Sag-Aftra since 1998.