Graeme Mack is a teacher, writer, and historian based in Richmond, Virginia. At present, Dr. Mack serves as Assistant Professor at Virginia State University. Previously, he worked as Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the University of Richmond (2022-2026) where he taught courses on the American presidency, early America, U.S. foreign relations, and the coming of the Civil War. As the 2025-2026 UR Democracy Initiative Fellow, he also lead Forging a New Nation, an initiative dedicated to encouraging discussion of the Declaration of Independence among University of Richmond students, faculty, and staff through different formats and platforms, which also marks the Declaration’s 250th anniversary. As a historian, his work tends to focus on American maritime trade, foreign diplomacy, and westward expansion in the Pacific during the first half of the 19th century. Dr. Mack’s writing has appeared in in Every Day Fiction, BULL, Suddenly, And Without Warning, Bright Flash Literary Review, BigCityLit, Please See Me, Literary Garage, Blydyn Square Review, Northwestern Indiana Literary Journal, the Washington Post, Bunk History, The Conversation, and H-Net. He is also a reader for Flash Fiction Magazine. Originally from Canada, Mack studied history and literature, earning his B.A. at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, M.A. at McGill in Montreal, and Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego. Before beginning college, he played guitar in a band and toured for several years across North America. He also worked as a librarian at various colleges in the Canadian West and French-speaking Canada.