At the age of seventeen, Mark Wildermann dropped out of college after three days to work on a freighter. He eventually returned to land and earned a B.A. in English which qualified him for jobs as a baker, a truck driver, a real estate agent, and a high school special education teacher. He then worked at a small liberal arts college where he wandered the grounds as a campus safety officer on weekends and tutored students in the writing center during the week. While there, he earned an M.Ed. in mental health counseling, which led him to counseling adults and families.

His first play was a semi-finalist in the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. He published a children’s book, wrote several screenplays and stage plays and a novella, which he’s expanding to novel length. About Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), he has written extensively–a screenplay, a TV pilot, a stage play, a radio play, a book, had an article published, and presented the dramatization of selections from his work, “The Significance of Margaret Fuller,” with two actors in a theatre in NYC in April of 2025.

He has lived in New England all of his life, turning with every season to tutor and write.