Mark Ulyseas has served time in advertising as a copywriter and a creative director, selling people things they didn’t need. He was a ghost writer for some years, a columnist of a newspaper, a freelance journalist and a photographer. In 2009, he created Live Encounters Magazine, in Bali, Indonesia. It is a not-for-profit (ad-free) free online magazine featuring leading academics, writers, poets, activists of all hues etc. from around the world. March 2016 saw the launch of its sister publication Live Encounters Poetry. He is the author of two books: RAINY – My friend & Philosopher and Seductive Avatars of Maya – Anthology of Dystopian Lives. This is his third book. www.liveencounters.net