Mardi Link author biography
Mardi Link is a freelance journalist and one of the founders of Michigan Writers, a non-profit
support group for working writers in the Great Lakes State.
She has a degree in journalism and another in natural resources from Michigan State University;
fresh out of college, she was a police reporter for a small daily newspaper in New England,
Foster’s Daily Democrat. Her work has appeared in Publishers Weekly, The Bookseller (UK),
Yankee Magazine, ForeWord Magazine, Traverse, Northern Michigan’s Magazine, Traverse
City Business News, Traverse City Record-Eagle, Bellingham Review, Dunes Review, and the
Bear River Review.
Mardi is co-founder and previous executive editor of ForeWord Magazine, a trade book review
journal of independent and university presses for a national audience of librarians and
booksellers. In 2007, she was named Antioch’s Betty Crumrine Scholar for Creative Nonfiction
and was a finalist for the Annie Dillard Creative Nonfiction Award. Mardi is a 2008 graduate of
Traverse City’s Citizen’s Police Academy. She lives in Traverse City, Michigan with her three
sons.
Isadore’s Secret is her second book. When Evil Came to Good Hart: An Up North Michigan
Cold Case was published in 2008 by the University of Michigan Press, and spent four months on
the Heartland Bestseller List.