Mary Schendlinger (born August 1948[1]) is a writer and editor.
She is the senior editor at Geist, a magazine she co-founded with Stephen Osborne.
As a child, she was greatly inspired by Mad Magazine, and submitted her writing and comics to it several times without success.
[1] Schendlinger worked for seven years as an editorial/production assistant at Talon books, then for ten years as a managing editor for Harbour Publishing, where she was responsible for the Encyclopedia of British Columbia.
[3] Schendlinger has taught at Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, and Malaspina College.