Mark McKenna grew up in Sandy, Utah, and is the youngest of six children. He has always had a great love and appreciation for art and illustration. After serving as a missionary in Indiana for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he married his wife, Sheena, of Driggs, Idaho. Mark and Sheena now reside in Rexburg, Idaho, where Mark is studying illustration at BYU-Idaho. They have a newborn baby girl, Jamie.