In addition to his new novel, An Untimely Frost, Mark Spencer is the author of the novels Ghost Walking, Love and Reruns in Adams County, The Weary Motel, A Haunted Love Story, and The Masked Demon, as well as the short-story collections Wedlock and Trespassers and a history book, Images of America: Monticello.

His work has received the Faulkner Society Faulkner Award, the Omaha Prize for the Novel, The Bradshaw Book Award, the St. Andrews Press Short Fiction Prize, and four Special Mentions in Pushcart Prize. Over 100 of his novellas, short stories, and articles have appeared in a wide variety of national and international literary magazines.

Mark is the Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Arkansas at Monticello, as well as Professor of Creative Writing in the MFA program there.

He and his family live in the famously haunted Allen House, the setting of his books A Haunted Love Story and Ghost Walking, as well as the basis for five TV shows and a forthcoming feature film, The Perfect Host: A Southern Gothic Tale.