Mark Neely’s poetry has appeared in Boulevard, Indiana Review, Salt Hill, North American Review, Meridian, Columbia Poetry Review and elsewhere. He received his BA from The University of Illinois, and his MFA from The University of Alabama, where he was poetry editor of the Black Warrior Review. An Assistant Professor of English at Ball State University, he is also the editor of a literary magazine, The Broken Plate.  He wrote the text for Visions, a choral work by composer Joseph Harchanko, which had its world premiere in April 2005.  Mark has received an Academy of American Poets’ Prize and been a finalist for the May Swenson Poetry Award and the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry.  He lives in Muncie with his wife—writer Jill Christman—and their two children.

Contact: maneely@bsu.edu