Mark McWaters

Mark McWaters carried a pad and pencil around from age nine on, finally parlaying his love of writing into a career as an advertising copywriter with a slew of national, regional and local advertising agencies. His ultimate career move lasted 17 years as a partner/copywriter/creative director at his own agency.

Mark has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. (He owes a great debt to Mr. Fred Chappell there.) He is a member of the Florida Writers Association and a multiple winner of that esteemed organization's literary awards—the Royal Palm Literary Award—for his flash fiction, short stories, and novels.

He currently lives in Mount Dora, Florida with his editor, a learned and highly opinionated West Highland Terrier named Bentley. Personal literary tastes run to the bizarre, the macabre and to the downright strange and those sensibilities are dominant themes in Mark's rapidly expanding portfolio of work.