Since 1987, Mark J. Ferrari's fantasy illustration has been widely appreciated for its sense of light, color, and strong narrative quality. He's made his living doing free-lance illustration for such clients as Lucasfilm and Lucas Arts Games, ILM, EA, Chaosium Games, Amaze Entertainment, TOR, ACE, NAL, Doubleday Sci-Fi Book club, and many others.

No longer satisfied to confine his love of storytelling to drawings, however, Mark has finally conceded that one good book is worth a thousand pictures, and started writing fantasy novels. His first, The Book of Joby, was released by TOR in August 2007.

After a brief sojourn in Omaha, Nebraska, he currently resides in Seattle, Washington, (when he isn't traveling, which he very often is), where he does background and concept art by day for a large computer gaming company, and describes himself as: single, non-smoker, no pets.