Mark Crimmins grew up in Manchester and emigrated to the United States in 1978. He studied English Literature at the University of Toronto, where he received his MA and PhD in literature. He taught contemporary fiction and literary theory at the University of Toronto for seventeen years. His first book, travel memoir Sydneyside Reflections, was published in 2020 and has been praised for its prose style. His flash fictions have been published in numerous literary magazines in the United States and have also been published in Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Japan, Canada, and the UK. He is currently an associate professor of English studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, in China.