Mark Richardson is a Canadian journalist and author, based in Cobourg, Ontario.

Mark is the former automotive editor of the Toronto Star and now contributes regularly to Canada’s national newspaper, The Globe and Mail, among other publications.

He is the author of Zen and Now: On the trail of Robert Pirsig and the art of motorcycle maintenance (Knopf, 2008), and Canada’s Road: A journey on the Trans-Canada Highway from St. John’s to Victoria (Dundurn, 2012). Bird on a Wire is his first published novel.