Mark Oshiro

1 universe Last reviewed 2026-09-27

Mark Oshiro was born on October 23, 1983, and is an author, editor, and activist based in Atlanta, Georgia. They first gained a wide readership for the online project Mark Does Stuff (2013-2014), in which they wrote reaction-based analyses of books and television series, and received a Hugo Award nomination for that work. Oshiro's debut novel, Anger Is a Gift (2018), explores identity and social justice through a queer teenage protagonist, and won the Schneider Family Book Award in 2019. Their other novels include Each of Us a Desert (2020), a fantasy set in a post-apocalyptic world, the middle-grade novel The Insiders (2021), and Into the Light (2023), which addresses conversion therapy. Oshiro has also co-written two novels set in the Percy Jackson universe with Rick Riordan, The Sun and the Star (2023) and The Court of the Dead (2025).

Universe(s)

Books

• The Sun and the Star (2023) · The Riordanverse Core Canon
• The Court of the Dead (2025) · The Riordanverse Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 25 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 20 (16 won, 3 nomination, 1 honor mention)

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