Kenneth Mark Hoover was born in deep Louisiana sugarcane country but grew up in South Texas. But even as a little boy he never wanted to do anything else but write. He has two degrees, one in journalism and a bachelors degree in science (physics and chemistry) education. After teaching high school science for seven years he made the decision to write full-time.

Mark has sold over sixty short stories and articles. His fiction has appeared in various print and online magazines such as Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, the anthology Destination: Future, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Fantastic Stories, Strange Horizons, Challenging Destiny, Drops of Crimson, Three Crow Press and many others. His interviews with notable science fiction and fantasy writers can be found at Strange Horizons.

His website http://kennethhoover.com also has lots of information about his writing and where you can read the Haxan stories. So check it out!

If you're interested in reading more about Haxan, including extra content and publication dates of stories, please visit http://kennethhoover.com/haxan .

In 2005 his first novel, FEVREBLAU, published by Five Star Press. The novel sold out its first print run and received good reviews. He is working on a series of stories about the mythical town of Haxan, New Mexico. His latest books in this series are HAXAN and QUATERNITY. He has also written many short stories within the Haxan milieu.

Mark’s main passions outside writing include chess, amateur astronomy, Shotokan karate, and camping. He loves comics and silent movies and listens to everything from Tchaikovsky to Rob Zombie. He’s also a big opera fan. While he has worked as a surveyor, an educator and a salesman, his first love is, and always will be, writing.

Though he tries his best to attend one or two science fiction conventions a year, this sometimes doesn’t work out. But he is always happy to meet new writers and readers of all kinds of fiction. He lives and writes in Dallas, TX.