 Jarman is also a musician and is part of a local blues band, Toredown.Mark Anthony Jarman is a Yaddo Fellow and has taught at the University of Victoria, the Banff Centre for the Arts, and now teaches at the University of New Brunswick, where he is fiction editor of The Fiddlehead.Jarman credits his style of writing to his experience at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and cites author Barry Hannah as being a significant influence on his style.