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Mark Fernquest is a Bay Area-based writer and editor who currently resides in Sonoma County. He grew up in the foothills near Stanford University, received a bachelor's in Asian History from UC Santa Cruz and lived in Oakland and environs for 20 years. He is widely traveled, having in recent years visited England, France, Sweden, Turkey, Israel, New Zealand, Australia and Peru. He has also spent extensive time in the desert Southwest, including Joshua Tree and the Painted Desert, and in the San Juan Islands north of Seattle.Mark worked in the book industry in various capacities for 12 years, then in the software industry — in licensing and sales — for 11 years. He also worked as a copywriter for Seattle-based college-ranking website Optimal for several years. More recently he moved into copy editing and contract writing for several Bay Area weekly newspapers, where he honed his skills writing and copy editing AP-style articles.A Mad Max fan from way back, Mark attends post-apocalyptic desert festivals, plays the didjeridoo and takes Tibetan lessons. He lives with his feral black cat, Elijah Darkness, in a small house in an apple orchard outside of Sebastopol, California.

Listed skills include Fiction Writing, Perforce, Editing, Salesforce.Com, and 6 others.