Mark Hiss Lloreda is a writer and editor who has worked in and around San Diego arts and culture for many years. He began his career at the Old Globe Theatre, San Diego REPertory Theatre and Broadway San Diego. He was then founding editor of two publications: WHERE San Diego, a visitor guide focusing on arts, entertainment and dining, and Performances, the playbill magazine for Southern California’s leading performing arts groups. He is also the author of several guidebooks on San Diego and California, and was a longtime features writer and columnist for San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles, interviewing scores of local artists, architects, designers and civic leaders. As a photographer, he spent the better part of a decade documenting performances at Sushi Performance & Visual Art, which formed the basis for his Sushi exhibition, “Field Recordings,” in 2000. markkhiss@gmail.com