Mark McClelland's debut novel, Upload, is a winner of the ForeWord Reviews 2012 Book of the Year Award in Science Fiction, and was listed among the Best Books of 2014 by Chicago Book Review. He published his second book, Curse of the Healing Kiss, in December of 2019. It's a story of love, trust, and jealousy, told with emotional realism, in a fantasy setting inspired by French fairy tales of the 17th and 18th centuries.

Mark double-majored in Creative Writing and Computer Science at the University of Michigan's Residential College, where he won a Hopwood Award for poetry. He's been coding for money since 1992, and works on fiction and poetry as time allows. He writes in search of truths that defy simple, direct expression, and publishes to share his discoveries with others. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Nancy, and two cats.

Learn more at his author website, stuffbymark.com. Follow him on Twitter (@markproxy), where he mostly shares thoughts on climate change, science news, and politics.