Mark Gurarie

• Spending his teen years in the record and CD shops of Cleveland in the 90s, Mark developed a lifelong obsession with rock, punk, hip-hop, old country, funk, R&B, and jazz.
• Passionate about underground and emerging music, he is a music critic, focusing on albums by emerging indie, punk, post-punk, and hip-hop bands and artists.
• He writes songs, plays guitar, and lends vocals to Massachusetts-based post-punk/Krautrock quartet Teen Driver.

Experience

In addition to music writing for Grunge, Mark contributes health, medicine, and nutrition articles to Health.com and Verywell Health and food and drink reviews to Tasting Table. Since earning a master's degree from the New School in 2011, he has published a collection of poems, "Everybody's Automat," and his book and music reviews, interviews, and essays have appeared in The Rumpus, Post-Trash, Publishers Weekly, and Culture Crush, among others. Active in bands since the late '90s, he has toured in the US and Europe and writes, records, and performs original music with post-punk/Krautrock quartet Teen Driver. His writing reflects a deep passion for rock and pop music, aiming to help readers tap into the culture and context that makes every song special.

Education

Mark holds a bachelor's degree in comparative literature, German, and psychology from Case Western Reserve University. He earned a master's degree in creative writing at the New School, with a concentration in poetry.