Mark Alexandre Fortin (aka M.A. Fortin) was born in Montreal, Canada on August 11th, 1978. He is a screenwriter for film and television and frequently collaborates with Joshua John Miller. Together they wrote the screenplay for the horror comedy film The Final Girls, which premiered at SXSW.^[1] The Final Girls has received positive reviews from variety, collider, fangoria, letterboxed, bloody disgusting, crave online and many others.^{[citation needed]} It won the audience award at Stanley film festival,^{[citation needed]} placed in the top ten critics poll for indie wire at SXSW,^{[citation needed]} will play in the LA film fest in June^{[citation needed]} and will be released by Sony in the fall.^{[citation needed]} Most recently their film Dawn (dir. Rose McGowan) premiered in competition at the Sundance film festival.

Fortin and Joshua Miller wrote and produced the new USA television series Queen of the South that will premiere in January 2016.^{[citation needed]}

Fortin is a graduate of Emerson College^{[citation needed]} and of the ART/MXAT Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University.^{[citation needed]} He holds an MFA from the Moscow Art Theatre School.^{[citation needed]}