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3	Mark Oshiro is an American writer and blogger. Oshiro is most known for their blog ''Blog/MarkDoesStuff'', where they review books and TV shows. Oshiro is also an author of {{young adult\|Literature}} and {{middle grade\|Literature}} novels.
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5	Oshiro is queer and non-binary and uses they/them pronouns.
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7	A more complete list of their published work can be found on their website [[https://www.markoshiro.com/about here]].
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9	!!Blogs
10	* ''Blog/MarkReadsTwilight'' (2009)
11	* ''Blog/MarkReadsHarryPotter'' (2010)
12	* ''Blog/MarkDoesStuff'' (2010–2021)
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14	!!Books
15	* ''Literature/AngerIsAGift'' (2018)
16	* ''Each of Us a Desert'' (2020)
17	* ''The Insiders'' (2021)
18	* ''You Only Live Once, David Bravo'' (2022)
19	* ''Star Wars Hunters: Battle for the Arena'' (2023)
20	* ''Into the Light'' (2023)
21	* ''Literature/TheSunAndTheStarANicoDiAngeloAdventure'' (2023): A ''[[Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries Camp Half-Blood]]'' book co-written with Creator/RickRiordan (2023)
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23	!!Short fiction
24	* "Hunger", ''Literature/FromACertainPointOfViewTheEmpireStrikesBack'' (2020)
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26	!!Tropes present in their works include:
27	* AfterTheEnd: ''Each of Us a Desert'' is set long after some unspecified disaster, long enough that it's passed into myth.
28	* AuthorAppeal: Recurring themes are queer children, fantasy as a metaphor for coming of age, plot twists, and racism.
29	* ComingOfAgeQueerRomance: Nearly all their stories with romance are about queer children or teenagers, since they didn't have enough representation of this growing up.
30	* ExtraordinaryWorldOrdinaryProblems: The fantasy of their middle grade novels is often there to enable the ComingOfAgeStory. ''The Insiders'' has a magical room that connects to two others but focuses on the friendships and formed from that, and ''You Only Live Once, David Bravo'' is a time travel story about learning to accept one's mistakes.
31	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Xochital of ''Each of Us A Desert'' takes up people's stories so that their feelings won't attract monsters. Xo hates it because she's forced to carry the burden of a whole town's sins. [[spoiler:And it's later revealed that they never needed to give up their stories anyway.]]
32	* StarCrossedLovers: Xochital, a story keeper in a small town, and Emilia, the daughter of the town's murderous mayor in ''Each of Us A Desert''. They start on opposite sides, but find they have more in common than they think.
33	* SympatheticPOV: The wampa in "Hunger". He went out on a hunting trip, then came back to find the rebel base where his family used to be. His lashing out at Luke isn't just hunger, it's rage and grief.

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