Mark Harchar was born and raised in northeast Pennsylvania, home of pierogi and fried Sicilian pizza. He grew up in a working-class neighborhood, his father an office equipment serviceman and his mother a waitress. Mark went to Penn State University for biomedical equipment technology and electrical engineering. He returned to school ten years later receiving a degree in painting and illustration.
Mark worked in a toilet paper factory, as a pizza delivery driver, singer and guitarist in a dive bar band, a computer engineer for one of the big five publishing companies and a professional illustrator. Mark now works to add author to the list.
The Empty Suit, The Tesla Entanglement is his debut novel.