Mark Alice Durant is an artist, writer and publisher living in Baltimore. He is author of Maya Deren: Choreographed for Camera, 27 Contexts: An Anecdotal History in Photography, Robert Heinecken: A Material History and co-author of Blur of the Otherworldly: Contemporary Art, Technology and the Paranormal. His essays have appeared in numerous journals such as Aperture, Art in America, Photograph Magazine, Dear Dave and many catalogs, monographs and anthologies including Rania Matar: She, Seeing Science: How Photography Reveals the Universe and Vik Muniz Seeing is Believing. He has served on the faculties of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, UCLA, the University of New Mexico, Syracuse University and the Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts at Bard College. Currently he teaches in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Maryland. Durant is publisher/editor of Saint Lucy Books.