Mark Neely is the author of Beasts of the Hill and Dirty Bomb, both from Oberlin College Press, and Ticker, which won the Idaho Prize for Poetry and was published by Lost Horse Press. His fourth book, Late Stage, was published by Jacar Press in 2025. His awards include an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, an Indiana Individual Artist grant, and the FIELD Poetry Prize. He is a professor of English at Ball State University and co-editor of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative.