Human-shaped, simian-obsessed, robot-fighting, pirate-hearted, storytelling junkie, Mark A. Rayner is an award-winning writer of satirical and speculative fiction.

By day, Mark teaches his bemused students at the Faculty of Information and Media Studies (Western University), how to construct digital images, web sites, and viable information architectures that will not become self-aware and destroy all humans. By night he is a writer of short stories, novels, squibs and other drivel. (Some pure, and some quite tainted with meaning.)

His most recent novel is The Fatness, a satire about concentration camps for fat people and bureaucracy gone mad. (It's a love story.)

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