When he was 6, co-author Mark Ukra and his 5-year-old sister Tara huddled at the back of a tiny hallway closet and created a make-believe world based on the love they shared with their amazing grandmother, dog, and stuffed animal friends. In those endless hours in that closet, the siblings' adventures and dreams came to life and their fears disappeared. Now, decades later, the HarperCollins author, together with his sister Tara Mesalik MacMahon, a James Hearst Poetry Prize winning poet, again brings to life the "Closet of Dreams," this time on the page and shared with young readers.
A.I. Fabler is the pen name of the New Zealand-born author, who spent a large part of his working life in London, New York and Sydney, initially in journalism and advertising, before moving into senior corporate roles in property development and financing before writing full time. He is the recipient of a number of screenwriting awards, including the Empire Award for Drama in 2017. His political satire, “Agenda 2060: The Future as It Happens” was published in 2021, described by Kirkus Reviews as ‘A laser-focused, irresistible lampoon of woke culture’. It is the winner of the 2022 IRDA Discovery Award for Popular Fiction. Book Two in the series, sub-titled "AI and the View from Space" was released late 2023. His novel "The Seed of Corruption
